Pharmacy on a Bicycle
Pharmacy on a Bicycle explores innovative solutions to global health problems.
Pharmacy on a Bicycle explores innovative solutions to global health problems.
Part 2 of 3: Leverage mainstream market growth to support impact investments.
The free market can do plenty of good on its own, so let's think more systematically beyond it.
A look at how competitions like those at the Knight Foundation serve the social entrepreneur community.
Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
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.