What’s Your Start Agenda?
Effective change efforts, whether activist movements or social enterprises, must focus beyond just the problem or symptom they want to eliminate.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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From Vision to Fingerspitzengefühl
An excerpt from From Vision to Action with 11 principles for social entrepreneurship
Crowdfunding Education
Social enterprise ScholarX unlocks learning opportunities for Nigerian students of all ages to help them realize their full potential.
Korea’s Experiment With Pay-for-Success
The Social Progress Credits program was the world’s first privately led pay-for-success experiment. Its implementation has boosted the South Korean impact ecosystem and provides valuable lessons about the measurement and incentivization of social value.
Transformative Leadership
A reading list on how leadership is changing, and how it still needs to
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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.