The Enterprising Type

By Alana Conner Snibbe

How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.

What Profits Do for Nonprofits

By Alana Conner Snibbe

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

Embedding Employees

By Jennifer Daw Holloway

Relationships keep workers from walking out.

All That Jazz

By Alana Conner Snibbe

Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.

Tainted Love

By Maia Szalavitz

Tough love programs hurt addicts and adolescents.

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.

15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford

By SSIR Editors 2

Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.

Crossing Over

By various authors

Sidebar to the article, "What Business Execs Don’t Know -- but Should -- About Nonprofits."

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

Ethan Zuckerman - Bringing Technology to Africa

As a technologist, Ethan Zuckerman has spent much time working with the new generation of African entrepreneurs, programmers, organizers, and young people who are hooking up their continent to the Web. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Zuckerman explains how these new netizens are changing the way villagers and urban dwellers learn, organize, network, and face the challenges of poverty, AIDS, political strife, and making a living.