Scaling
Growing Locally and Deeply
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Tag: Social Entrepreneurship
Excerpt
Collaboration
Follow the Fool
An excerpt from Changemaker Playbook on empathy-based ethics, co-creative teamwork, and clowns.
Social Enterprise
Research to Build Resilient Social Economy Ecosystems in Europe
Under the broad umbrella of “the social economy,” research has a major role to play in helping us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of multiple forms of social entrepreneurship.
Impact Investing
Democratizing Capital
New laws enabling ordinary people to become equity investors have the potential to uplift marginalized communities, if the new market creates the infrastructure to include them.
Scaling
The Promise of Social Sector Franchising
The massive growth of commercial franchises like McDonald’s offers inspiration for scaling social impact. Although still very young, social sector franchising is spawning an array of successful enterprises that offer lessons for further expansion.
Social Enterprise
Applying a Gender Lens to Social Entrepreneurship
The social sector will flourish through embracing less patriarchal and more collaborative approaches that focus on long-term systemic change.
Economic Development
Unveiling the Informal Economy
Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.
Social Enterprise
Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism
Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take historical context into account.
IMPACT INDIA
Lifelong Reading for a Billion People
Same language subtitling (SLS) on India’s major TV channels went from concept in 1996 to national broadcast policy in 2019. This is the story of how we did it. A feature story from the Summer 2020 issue.
Business
The Dawn of Responsible Finance
Since the Great Recession, leaders in finance and investing have aimed to make their industries more equitable, sustainable, and socially productive. Has the fight for financial reform found its moment amid the economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic? A Case Study in the Summer 2020 issue.