Root Solutions
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.
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Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Conflict Resolution
From investment to football to soap operas to jobs, culture can be a force for good in the world. In this panel discussion sponsored by the Skoll World Forum, experts on social entrepreneurship share their experiences and insights about how to use culture and media as tools for conflict resolution.
Eyeing Talent
VisionSpring picks promising social entrepreneurs to restore the eyesight of poor people.
Clean Sweep
E + Co connects the dots between energy, poverty, and the environment.
Climate Change
Social entrepreneurism should focus less on charismatic personalities and more on ideas that work.
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
For Love or Lucre
A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.