Workers of the World, Buy!
iCare is enabling Southeast Asian workers to purchase the basic goods of middle-class life without falling into debt.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Creating a Social Business
How Jaipur Living developed a global rug business, one weaver at a time, and lifted thousands out of poverty.
Deploying Technology
Technology alone is not the innovation. Rather, the innovation lies in how technology is deployed.
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Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It
How organizations in the development sector can more systematically consider the implications of the environments in which they work.
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Old Practice, New Concept
Better defining social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa can help drive policy dialogue, create useful legal frameworks, and facilitate the financing and support services social enterprises in the region need to succeed.
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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.