Mission-Driven Returns
Two new case studies reveal practical lessons about successful philanthropic impact investing.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Student Finance: A New Frontier for Impact Investing?
Student-lending innovations from emerging markets could expand access to education.
VisionSpring Aims to Provide Eyeglasses to Millions
The connection between proper vision and economic development.
Direct Public Offerings for Healthy Communities
Dysfunctional public and private capital markets benefit traders, speculators, and financiers more than companies and communities; direct public offerings provide a capital funding solution that benefits everyone.
The Secret to Transformative Scale: Hire Right
When it comes to an organization’s ability to achieve impact, outstanding people make the difference.
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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.