Microfinance
Skoll 2011 Interview: Susan Davis and Rumee Ali of BRAC
Exciting announcement revealed at the Skoll World Forum: BRAC and MasterCard Foundation announced a $45 million partnership.
Tag: Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship
Skoll World Forum: Large Scale Social Change
The eighth year of the Skoll World Forum showed incredible dedication to accelerating entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues.
Podcast
Global Issues
Safe Water in Communities
A Single Drop for Safe Water Executive Director Kevin Lee, a 2010 Tech Award winner, describes ASDSW's work in the Philippines and beyond.
Social Entrepreneurship
Better Vision for the Poor
Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people who need them. Why haven’t any of the organizations succeeded on a large scale?
Social Enterprise
SSIR Managing Editor Featured on Huffington Post
Excerpt of a discussion with Eric Nee, manager of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Business
Creativity in Action
To answer many of the social welfare and public health problems of today it takes creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Social Enterprise
Star Pitchers
Twelve new social enterprise ventures ran onto the social innovation field at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference.
Review
Social Entrepreneurship
Who Are the Change Makers?
Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Paul C. Light
Impact Investing
A Toniic for Start-Ups
Impact Investors at Toniic aim to create an ecosystem for investing in social entrepreneurs that mirrors the Silicon Valley way of doing deals.
Socially Responsible Business
Beyond the Purple Berry
Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon