Nonprofits & NGOs
Embracing the Business of Development
If we want to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we need to start at the bottom of the list.
Tag: Socially Responsible Business
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Social Enterprise
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
Green Giants shares the six factors that have enabled these extraordinary firms to crack the code on profitable, sustainable business and offers a blueprint corporate leaders and entrepreneurs alike can follow.
Business
Let Your Values Show
Using unbranded content to influence global issues can help eliminate doubt about corporate-driven social efforts, help move the needle on global issues, and still fortify the bottom line.
Social Enterprise
Filling In the Gap
How creative collaborations worldwide are deploying capital and support for promising social enterprises.
Big Picture
Ecosystem Investing: Achieving Impact at Scale
Six lessons from a large-scale, cross-sector initiative to improve education.
Advocacy
Making the Benefits of Cause Marketing Last
When companies champion a cause, their efforts often have a “rented” quality. It’s time to ramp up authentic, lasting connections between companies and social impact.
Nonprofits
Recipe for Impact
Delivering nutritious school lunch fare on a large scale is the social mission—and the business model—of Revolution Foods.
Social Entrepreneurship
Doing Less, Better
The real competitive advantage of social enterprise, compared to traditional charities isn’t revenue generation—it’s the ability to focus on fewer things.
Big Picture
Business Growth for Good: Why Context Matters
Corporations can achieve growth in emerging markets by investing in and organizing around sustainable and inclusive business activities.
Social Enterprise
Supporting Small Businesses for Big Change
Can donors do more to leverage small business as an effective means of delivering development services?