What Profits Do for Nonprofits

By Alana Conner Snibbe

A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.

Social Enterprise 2.0

By Jim Schorr 1

Moving toward a sustainable social enterprise model.

Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies

By John Voelcker 3

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better.

Podcast

David Bornstein - How to Change the World

David Bornstein is a leading expert on the global rise of "social entrepreneurism." In this audio interview, Globeshakers host Tim Zak asks how we would know a social entrepreneur if we saw one on the street. More important, why should we care? Who invests in social enterprise and what is at stake for our world if we don't?

Podcast

Jed Emerson - Value Creation

The nonprofit sector delivers social value and the for-profit sector delivers economic value, right? Wrong! Speaking at Bridging the Gap, the 2005 Stanford Net Impact conference, Jed Emerson argues that value is non-divisible, whole, and blended. In this audio lecture, he invites us to think beyond philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, and other limiting mindsets.

An Enterprising Failure

By Paul Tracey & Owen Jarvis

Why a promising social franchise collapsed.

Podcast

Zach Warren - Laughter in a Time of War

In 2005, marathoner, juggler, and unicyclist Zach Warren traveled to Afghanistan to help children recover from the traumas of war, as part of the Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children. In this audio interview, Warren shares with Globeshakers host Tim Zak his observations about what it takes to rebuild an entire country.

Podcast

Don Gould - Pure Water 4 All

When people ask Don Gould how he knows that his product works, he answers: "Because babies stop dying." As part of a social enterprise consortium, Gould, who is both a product designer and ceramicist, helped to design and deploy simple, effective water filtration devices to the developing world. In this audio interview, he talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about both the traditional production techniques and the new economy models for collaboration.

Child’s Play

By Sheryl Nance-Nash

A video game teaches children about famines and how to stop them.

Review: Bootstrap Dreams

Review By Nancy C. Jurik

The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States.