Social Enterprise
The Social Impact Investment Mirage
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.
Bringing high-tech operations into the geographical heart of excluded communities jump-starts mass participation, galvanizing economic advancement for their members while challenging accepted norms of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Tech companies that prioritize the public interest are essential for a more just future, but they need investments at their earliest stages to thrive.
Research on 23,000 ventures reveals factors that donors, managers, and entrepreneurs should consider as they choose to support, run, or use accelerators, the increasingly popular training programs that help businesses succeed.
Without bringing more rigor and resources to scaling impact efforts, the do-good industry will never make the exponential leaps needed to bring social innovations to millions of people.
Jeff Ubois interviews Thomas Kalil of Schmidt Futures (a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt) about how calls to solve big problems through competitions can, when done right, galvanize innovation.
The MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change team learned a lot from the first round of grants that will boost collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the next round.
100&Change sought to add value to participants by helping to raise the profile of a variety of meaningful solutions.
How the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy winnowed 100&Change’s Top 200 proposals.
Proposals for grants can offer a wealth of ideas and information to the nonprofit community, if foundations take the right steps.