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A foundation, the government, and academia are working together to nurture social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong.
A foundation, the government, and academia are working together to nurture social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong.
In South Korea, a core principle of social innovation is finding ways to engage citizens at the grassroots level.
Under Mayor Park Won-soon, the city of Seoul has become a leader in fostering social innovation.
Japan is opening the door to new approaches, such as social enterprise, for solving its pressing social problems.
Transforming into banks has given microfinance institutions greater sustainability, but perhaps at the cost of mission drift.
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
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.