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.

A Week of Social Impact for Business

By Georgia Levenson Keohane 3

A look at how investment firms, B Corporations, and other businesses are committing to social and environmental change.

Priming the Pump and Getting Out

By Joris de Vries & Morgan Potter 1

How an early-stage impact funder and start-up social business in Arusha, Tanzania, struck a deal to get things started and create an opportunity for early exit.

The Power of the Unlikely Social Entrepreneur

By Courtney E. Martin 5

As the field of social entrepreneurship expands, it’s critical that we break down “the fourth wall” between the serving and the served.

An Incubator for Labor

By Suzie Boss

Through the Workers Lab, union leaders aim to nurture “audacious ideas” that might reinvent the US labor movement.