Social Entrepreneurship
Voices from the Skoll World Forum
A report from the opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum, featuring Paul Farmer.
A report from the opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum, featuring Paul Farmer.
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
A look at how Kiva created a compelling model that hooked everyday donors into their social impact world.
A review of The New How: Creating Business Solutions through Collaborative Strategy , a book on how to create and implement high-impact strategies for social entrepreneurship.
Let’s not overlook what traditional entrepreneurs contribute to society.
Social entrepreneurship requires conscious leadership, says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in this University podcast. Delivering a talk sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Mackey issues a clarion call for nothing less than "conscious capitalism," arguing that business can indeed serve more than the almighty dollar. He discusses his own company's challenges in the social enterprise arena.
Social entrepreneurship may be the most promising avenue for solving global problems, says Paul Rice, CEO of TransFair USA. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Rice details his own work to establish Fair Trade. The movement has opened the U.S. market to more than 1.4 million small family farmers around the world who are now getting a fair price for their harvests and making dramatic gains in their living standards.
When Priya Haji put her mind to helping reduce global poverty, social entrepreneurship took a quantum leap. In this university podcast, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, the plucky founder of World of Good shares how she created a social enterprise that now empowers women in communities around the world by helping them sell their artisan goods in stores and online. She talks about strategies for using educated consumer choice and inspiring business competition to do good.
For all aspiring social entrepreneurs, a list of must-haves that are readily available.
Three young social entrepreneurs offer future income in exchange for support to scale.