Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024
Innovation stories on social connection, empowering youth, and revitalizing green spaces offer some year-end inspiration.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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De-Risking Press Freedom
How to fund, protect, and grow public interest information.
Brewing Fertilizer From Food Waste
The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.
Ownership and Equity
SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a community and provides a source of systemic change.
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.
A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.
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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.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
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.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
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.
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.
ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.