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Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
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What big international NGOs—BINGOs—need to learn about growing external social enterprise solutions.
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As the field of social entrepreneurship is engaged in finding solutions for social inequalities, it often falls short of creating opportunities for those who suffer most from those inequalities to become protagonists.
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Stories selected by the editors of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s global editions and why they chose to share them with their local audiences.
Inclusive Growth for Heartland Cities
Tulsa is piloting a new model to measure its growth, hoping other cities will follow suit.
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Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
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The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.