Bringing Social Entrepreneurship into the Classroom
Why we must leverage hands-on experience and service learning to encourage the next generation of social innovators.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Building With, Not For
Social good technologists working on building a more responsive and effective government need to be more inclusive of the citizens they’re trying to engage—and stop neglecting the government they already have.
Mission-Aligned Investing: More Complex Than It Seems
Even with the best intentions and emerging tools, the current investment framework makes it difficult to match investment portfolios to values.
Creating a Level Playing Field for Social Innovators in Africa
By supporting local innovators, we can solve more social problems and deepen our access to new systems thinking.
Taking the Pulse of Investment in Social Enterprise
A recent survey highlights the important role of social enterprise in poverty alleviation.
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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.