San+Co: Waste is Terrible Thing to Waste
A new social enterprise aims to provide a unique sanitation service to shantytowns.
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Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Among Youth
Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.
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Environmental Sustainability with World Water
Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.
Working with Stories
When embracing the benefits of working with stories, it’s important to keep two things in mind: engage empathy and embrace emergence.
Explaining the Long-term Single Bottom Line
Publicly owned companies will be most effective in creating social benefit when they plan for a long time horizon and focus on a single bottom line.
Fair Trade: A Model for Sustainable Development
Fair Trade is a viable vehicle for producers to strengthen their positions and take more control over their lives.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Large Foundations Dropping the Ball on Government Programs
The Pay For Success program and Social Innovation Fund are examples of the government turning to philanthropy for help selecting the effective programs.
How Do You Create a New Normal? A Three-Part Path to Scale
At Social Impact Exchange, a forum dedicated to scaling high-impact social programs, investors wanted to know “How will your idea achieve scale?”
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Macroeconomic Perspective on the Budget Deficit
Joe Minarik, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, talks about the macroeconomic perspective on the U.S. budget deficit and its impact on the US economy.