Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face.
Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon
Social entrepreneurship provides a path to transform Lebanon’s challenges into opportunities for change and development.
ReCoding Good: Part 5
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
The Distortion Risk in Impact Investing
How do we ensure that philanthropic subsidies in impact investing are put to productive use?
The Trouble With Impact Investing: P2
Impact investors—especially those who consider investing an alternative to grant making—need to step back and think about exactly what problem they want to solve.
Something Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On: Social Entrepreneurship
A survey of policy initiatives that support the social sector.
The Problem with “Social Entrepreneurship”: A Student’s Perspective
Much good can be done under the guise of “social entrepreneurship,” but that doesn’t excuse our collective failure to acknowledge its limitations.
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