Ups and Downs of Social Finance
Defaults in social finance and impact investing do happen: our experience and what the sector can learn from it.
Defaults in social finance and impact investing do happen: our experience and what the sector can learn from it.
Rethinking the target market.
We need to change the structure through which we make impact investments for inclusive, fully realized value.
Overlooking the unique and invaluable role of women as design leaders is bad for business and for all of us.
Let’s start telling social entrepreneurial aspirants the truth and get those who support the field financially to acknowledge that staying power and relationship-building are ineluctable partners to innovation. Part two of a series.
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.