Social Enterprise and Its Discontents
A new study reports that nonprofit agencies that choose to support themselves with for-profit businesses end up serving their clients less and worse.
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The Quintessential Entrepreneur
A FISTFUL OF RICE: My Unexpected Quest to End Poverty Through Profitability by Vikram Akula
Employment Power
How a private-public-academic partnership is helping people with serious mental illnesses find and keep jobs.
Investing at the Bottom of the Ladder
Companies that invest in their lowest-level employees are more productive and more profitable.
The Power of Many
The Tahirih Justice Center multiplies its impact by creatively using pro bono attorneys.
Social Innovations
Stopping Child Porn
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
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Sustainable Water Practices For a Global Corporation
Environmentally sustainable water use practices can be a source of strategic advantage for businesses in water-distressed regions.
Learning, Earning, and Saving
The need for holistic approaches to poverty alleviation for young people in Africa.
Big Business Matters
Social intrapreneurs—change agents already working deep within business—are the answer for business’s woes.
A Bigger Pie
Mission Pie, a for-profit bakery and café, supports local farmers while training at-risk kids.