The Social Innovation Fund: Field Observations
We must use our scarce resources to serve disenfranchised people’s needs and demand that evidence of results play a greater role in funding decisions.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Investing Beyond Exit
An important question that social entrepreneurs should also be thinking about when dealing with impact investing.
Constructing the Case for Impact Investment
What social entrepreneurs need to be thinking about when approaching impact investors and making the pitch for investment capital.
Investing in Impact
As entrepreneurs create more for-profit businesses with strong social missions, the opportunity for socially minded investors to invest in them grows.
Social Impact Markets
Why a market for social innovations is needed now more than ever.
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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.