Reconceptualizing the Social Economy
The social economy is increasingly seen as a motor for social change, but how can this shift in perspectives be framed to better understand and harness its potential?
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Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people's media and information literacy.
The Promise of Social Sector Franchising
The massive growth of commercial franchises like McDonald’s offers inspiration for scaling social impact. Although still very young, social sector franchising is spawning an array of successful enterprises that offer lessons for further expansion.
International Lessons on Building Resilient, Cross-Sector Partnerships
By focusing on three principles—shared goals, open acknowledgement of differing incentives, and the reduction of hierarchy and centralized strategy—organizations can build stronger partnerships, with an emphasis on action.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Applying a Gender Lens to Social Entrepreneurship
The social sector will flourish through embracing less patriarchal and more collaborative approaches that focus on long-term systemic change.
Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism
Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take historical context into account.
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Nowhere to Grow
The systematic scale-up of social entrepreneurs’ solutions by Big International NGOs (BINGOs) is simply not a thing. Why not?
Emerging Stronger From a Crisis
These battle-tested insights can help social enterprises increase their impact as they navigate severe crises like COVID-19.