Global Issues
BoP 101: Essential Reading for Those Interested in the Base of the Pyramid
Pivotal pieces that have influenced the "base of the pyramid" theory.
Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
Government
Social Enterprise in Scotland: The World Forum
The first Social Enterprise World forum focuses on how to use business to accomplish social outcomes.
Social Innovations
How I Became a Social Entrepreneur
Strategies for following one's social entrepreneurial bliss.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
Nonprofits
Review: Out of Poverty
Polak offers entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in Asia and Africa.
Podcast
Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Day - Funding Social Enterprises
With valuable advice for all types of entrepreneurs, this Stanford Entrepreneurship Week panel offers a unique perspective for funding a social enterprise startup. In this panel discussion, Kriss Deiglmeier leads an engaging discussion between funders and social entrepreneurs that provides actionable advice and insightful lessons in this discussion from the second annual Social Entrepreneurship Day at Stanford University.
Podcast
Natalie Portman - Eradicating Poverty Through Microfinance
One of the biggest problems that low-income people around the world face is the lack of access to capital that might otherwise help them rise out of poverty. Invited to Stanford, actress Natalie Portman turns the spotlight on her work to promote FINCA's International Village Banking Campaign, aiming to bring financial services to one million of the world's lowest-income families through 100,000 Village Banks by 2010.