A Bank of Their Own
Shunned by traditional financial systems, sex workers in Asia’s largest red-light district started their own bank. Now it is empowering other marginalized groups.
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Saudi Female Social Entrepreneurs
Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
Not Invented, But Scaled Here
What big international NGOs—BINGOs—need to learn about growing external social enterprise solutions.
In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship
As the field of social entrepreneurship is engaged in finding solutions for social inequalities, it often falls short of creating opportunities for those who suffer most from those inequalities to become protagonists.
SSIR Stories Around the World
Stories selected by the editors of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s global editions and why they chose to share them with their local audiences.
Inclusive Growth for Heartland Cities
Tulsa is piloting a new model to measure its growth, hoping other cities will follow suit.
Development, Equity, and Inclusion
Global growth has left too many populations and geographies behind. Inclusive development requires national initiatives to act small and community initiatives to act big.
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Microfinance and the Backlash
An excerpt from the new edition of Small Loans, Big Dreams on microfinance since the Nobel.
Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy
How climate funding and policy exclude those who experience the worst effects of climate change, and how investing in smallholder farmers can help right the ship.
A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice
Why we need to move business from the margins to the mainstream on climate justice, and how to get there.