Supporting Small Businesses for Big Change

By Randall Kempner & Kate McElligott 9

Can donors do more to leverage small business as an effective means of delivering development services?

Bringing Social Entrepreneurship into the Classroom

By Kathleen Kelly Janus 4

Why we must leverage hands-on experience and service learning to encourage the next generation of social innovators.

Building With, Not For

By Marcia Stepanek 1

Social good technologists working on building a more responsive and effective government need to be more inclusive of the citizens they’re trying to engage—and stop neglecting the government they already have.

Mission-Aligned Investing: More Complex Than It Seems

By Clara Miller & Toni Johnson 1

Even with the best intentions and emerging tools, the current investment framework makes it difficult to match investment portfolios to values.

Creating a Level Playing Field for Social Innovators in Africa

By Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli 17

By supporting local innovators, we can solve more social problems and deepen our access to new systems thinking.

Taking the Pulse of Investment in Social Enterprise

By Aline Margaux Wachner, Tim Weiss, & Lisa Marie Hanley 1

A recent survey highlights the important role of social enterprise in poverty alleviation.

Source of Opportunity

By Suzie Boss

Sama Group, a social enterprise that connects disadvantaged people with digital work, is expanding its reach to the United States.

Thriving on Failure

By Greg Beato 3

In cities all around the world, entrepreneurs are gathering to discuss the flubs, flops, and fiascos that punctuate their careers.

Lifting Up Day Labor

By Derek Snook 5

A social enterprise called In Every Story brings better pay—and a spirit of empathy—to a highly marginalized workforce.

Five Innovations That Will Electrify Africa

By Joshua Romisher 31

How a continent of over 1 billion off-grid customers can move from darkness to light over the next decade.