Between Innovation and Development
An interview with Aleem Walji, practice manager for innovation at the World Bank Institute.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Global Media Needs Social Enterprise
Global leaders should begin to consider a stronger relationship with local social enterprises.
Innovations That Address the Last-Mile Distribution Challenge
Social enterprises have taken up the challenge of developing markets for newly designed cook stoves in India.
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Pairing Nonprofits with Professionals
CEO and founder of Catchafire Rachael Chong discusses how her organization started and how it conducts outreach.
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Environmental Sustainability and Development
Richard Morse, research associate at the Stanford’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, discusses carbon offsets as a way to engage the developing world in climate change mitigation.
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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.