Three Things Every Growing Nonprofit Needs to Scale
An organization’s early-stage success has less to do with having a charismatic, lone visionary at the helm, and more to do with teamwork, metrics, and access to capital.
An organization’s early-stage success has less to do with having a charismatic, lone visionary at the helm, and more to do with teamwork, metrics, and access to capital.
Social enterprises contribute significantly to the economy, and simultaneously are fiercely social mission-driven.
Treating philanthropic grants as revenue can hurt social enterprises’ performance.
The social sector must better support entrepreneurs and professionals who have migrated from the developing world, and who want to positively influence social change in their countries of origin.
It’s more of a desert than a jungle out there.
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.