Government
Social Innovation: International Practices for Diffusion and Policymaking
Videos from the Social Innovation Dialogues convening in Berlin.
Tag: Europe
Impact Investing
Big Society Capital Marks a Paradigm Shift
How the UK’s social investment bank will harness entrepreneurship and capital to solve societal problems.
Economic Development
Microfinance for Wealthy Countries
The UK microcredit business Fair Finance is paving the road for the growth of microfinance in the developed world.
Environment
Trawling for Trash
An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.
Podcast
Social Entrepreneurship
Mode d’emploi pour réussir dans l’entrepreneuriat social
Amandine Barthelemy et Romain Slitine nous expliquent la teneur de l'étude et en dressent une grille de lecture sur l'entrepreneur lui-même, le projet et la méthode employée.
Civil Society
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
Socially Responsible Business
Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
Integrated reporting—the combination of a company’s financial and nonfinancial performance in one document—is a crucial step to creating a more sustainable society.
Civil Society
It Takes Three to Tango
A European perspective on American civil society. A quick glance at the latest
thinking about not-for-profit management and philanthropy
reveals some profound differences between the ways American and
European practitioners look at today’s major societal challenges.
Economic Development
Welfare Works Better than Bootstraps
In Britain, the social safety net allows people who fall into poverty to pull themselves out. Americans who become poor are more likely to stay that way.