Business
Sourcing Locally for Impact
By mapping a company’s relationship to the economy in which it operates, businesses can do much to advance their strategic objectives and advance local economic growth.
Tag: Employment
Understanding why people are out of work and innovative ways to provide them with jobs
Nonprofit Management
Cuomo Orders Review of Nonprofit Compensation
What needs to be under public scrutiny is the entire range of unfettered discretion in spending that some nonprofit executives—and their boards—exercise.
Nonprofit Management
Innovative Ideas for Sale—No Strings Attached
As controversial as he is kind-hearted, serial entrepreneur Charles Maisel's viewpoint shakes up conventional charity thinking.
Economic Development
Antipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
Global Issues
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.
Social Enterprise
From the Field: Impact First
Social enterprises in East Africa seem to have two quite distinct commonalities: a comprehensive, impact-driven business model, and a plan to “scale big.”
Social Entrepreneurship
Now What? Young Leaders Are Changing the World by Working for Themselves
Growing numbers of young people are making an about face—turning their backs on working for “the man” and creating their own ventures.
Global Issues
Are You Ready for the Big Shift?
So many people in the stage of life after midlife and before true old age have so much experience, time, and capacity to do something significant.
Review
Civil Society
Just Instincts
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter Corning
Socially Responsible Business
Being the Only B
The owner of the only certified B Corporation in Kentucky assesses the pros and cons of the certification.