How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Certainty Versus Confidence
Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.
Pushing MOOCs the Last Mile
Online education is already changing the way people learn all over the world, but is it reaching the populations that can benefit most?
Imagine Trying to Get a Loan Without a Financial Identity
InVenture enables people in India and Kenya to send their financial data via SMS and get a simple financial overview of their monetary lives.
What’s My Money Doing Today?
Social economy enterprises must think like mutual funds.
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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.