Social Entrepreneurship
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
Tag: Accelerators & Incubators
Philanthropy
The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation
A growing number of foundations are reintroducing risk-taking into their processes and portfolios as one way to create breakthrough change.
Social Entrepreneurship
Setting the Stage for First-Stage Scaling
Social enterprises face many challenges to scaling, and preparing them with the appropriate team, culture, and systems is a critical first step in the process. Part one of a three-part series.
Impact Investing
A Fault in Funding
An initiative undertaken by the World Bank reveals a troubling gap in the financing of social enterprises.
Socially Responsible Business
How the Hub Found Its Center
After a period of crisis and transition, Impact Hub has emerged as an organization that is partly a movement, partly a business, and partly a network.
Economic Development
Filling Out the Middle
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a "missing" segment in emerging economies.
Nonprofits
The Rise of the Radical Mainstreamers
Why established nonprofits could hold the key to scaling social innovation.
Foundations
Sustainable Corporate Philanthropy
Blackstone’s Amy Stursberg explains how the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has focused on job creation and created a platform for near- and long-term impact.
Social Entrepreneurship
Dump the Stupid Prizes, Multiply the Rest
Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
Social Entrepreneurship
Bay to Bei: Fostering the Tech Ecosystem in Lebanon
Lessons from Silicon Valley on how to establish a business culture that rewards innovation and propels Lebanon into the digital age.