Social Enterprise
Social Good Is Always Good Branding—or Is It?
Building a brand solely on social impact is not a guarantee for success, and it comes with risks that can take businesses by surprise.
Tag: Social Entrepreneurship
Organizational Development
The Power of Convening for Social Impact
Bringing people together in an environment that encourages and facilitates idea exchange is one of the most powerful communications strategies for driving change.
Leadership
Tackling Heropreneurship
Why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.
Impact Investing
A Good Deal for Social Good
How impact investors, commercial investors, and social enterprises can take advantage of Series B financing and create greater impact.
Leadership
Seduced by “The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems”
Even in the world of poverty and development, seduction sometimes works out OK.
Human Rights
Mapping the Innovation Terrain for Gender Equality
How to better harness social innovation ideas and methods to advance gender equality—and vice versa.
Civic Engagement
Tech and Innovation to Re-engage Civic Life
Inclusive governance will require that civil society, government, and industry work together to empower citizens.
Social Enterprise
Harvesting Lessons
A social enterprise that served farmers in Kenya had to close down, but it yielded a healthy crop of insights about failure.
Review
Social Enterprise
Change Gets a “Roadmap”
Leaders from the Skoll Foundation have developed a useful yet flawed outlook on pursuing social entrepreneurship.
Economic Development
A New Economic Philosophy for Africa
Why Africa needs society-minded entrepreneurs, not glitzy projects, and how the economic philosophy of Africapitalism can guide the way.