The Trouble with Winning
One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Delivering Affordable Innovation
D-Rev delivers affordable health care innovation to the places that need it most.
New Ecosystem for Middle East Entrepreneurs
The i2 Institute aims to catalyze hope across the Middle East.
Diversifying NGO Leadership
There was a time when the all the senior staff of international NGOs working in developing countries came from North America and Europe. That is changing.
Scaling Mobile Health Solutions the Hard Way
Part of a special series on scaling mobile health initiatives.
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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.