Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Realizing the Dream of Homeownership
NeighborWorks’ courses on homeownership and support services empowered these people to buy their own homes and transform their lives.
Game-changing Technology Is Not Enough
Mobile technology-driven solutions that aim to create social impact need to invest in customer-centric development and user training.
Setting Young People on a Path to Lifelong Success
Activating the entrepreneurial mindset in young people is critical to their future success and breaking down structural inequities in communities.
Avoiding the Neoliberal Trap in Social Entrepreneurship
Seven lessons for walking the tight rope between social welfare and business.
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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.
