How a Nonprofit Raised Growth Capital From Public Markets
Lessons TechSoup learned from engaging stakeholders as impact investors to support their long-term growth.
Lessons TechSoup learned from engaging stakeholders as impact investors to support their long-term growth.
Performance measurement can help employees see value and meaning in their work.
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
In a world shaped by the twin advances of populism and authoritarianism, social innovation reminds us that all things are still possible.
An excerpt from Effective Fundraising: The Trustee's Role and Beyond on the role of nonprofit trustees in development.
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.
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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.
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.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.