A Better Way to Keep People From Going Back to Prison
Most programs that try to help formerly imprisoned people re-enter society and avoid reincarceration have been far from successful. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may help turn the tide.
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Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
How to Make the Most Out of Business Accelerator Programs for Development
Research on 23,000 ventures reveals factors that donors, managers, and entrepreneurs should consider as they choose to support, run, or use accelerators, the increasingly popular training programs that help businesses succeed.
Spotlighting Shared Outcomes for Social Impact Programs That Work
A greater focus on co-created, measurable outcomes can help build trust between public, private, and social sector partners, and thus improve the effectiveness of outcomes-based contracting and the social programs they create.
Social Enterprise
Research to Build Resilient Social Economy Ecosystems in Europe
Under the broad umbrella of “the social economy,” research has a major role to play in helping us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of multiple forms of social entrepreneurship.
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Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
Social Enterprise
Social-Tech Entrepreneurs: Building Blocks of a New Social Economy
How a new genre of social entrepreneur can wield emerging technologies to create integrated and inclusive social and industrial policies.
For Social Business to Become the Norm, We Need to Build a Social Business Infrastructure
For social businesses to survive and thrive, we must change the broader business ecosystem's legal structures, sustainability metrics, accountability systems, and funding opportunities.
Measuring Social Impact Can Help Foster a Stronger European Social Economy
Social enterprises and nonprofit organizations need to change the way they measure the impact of their work and become learning organizations, able to influence public policy.
How Public Procurement Can Spur the Social Economy
European governments purchase more than €2 trillion of goods and services annually, and more of that spending is being done in a socially responsible manner.
The Social Economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Why the social economy needs to step up and shape technological development to address social needs, and five strategies to get there.