Rethinking Women’s Work in India
Through innovative strategies for bringing women into the workforce, social enterprise is poised to transform the meaning of “women’s work.”
Through innovative strategies for bringing women into the workforce, social enterprise is poised to transform the meaning of “women’s work.”
By taking on an advising role, an organization can scale a core innovation with less demand on its resources than would be required through direct action alone.
More investors need to bet on early-stage social ventures that cover all the bases, and more entrepreneurs need to build them.
Understanding the strategies needed to catalyze cultural change, as well as the advantages and limits of benefit corporations, are critical in guiding enterprises to inspire social good.
Realizing the transformative potential of women’s leadership in India’s social enterprise sector will require persistent efforts to refine and mainstream gender-lens investing.
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.