A Haven for Transitional Youth
First Light Hospitality has developed a scalable social enterprise that provides jobs, life skills, and outdoor fun for young people aging out of the social-services system.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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The Power of Mental Health to Break Cycles of Violence and Promote Peace
Mental health is an essential intervention to address violence and trauma at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels.
The Case for Mental Health in Our Social Change Worlds
Integrating positive mental health practices is the only way for social change leaders to maximize the incredible potential of their organizations and the communities they serve.
The Invisible Rural Access Barrier
More than one billion people live in rural, isolated areas in low-income countries. Improving their access to roads and transportation is a prerequisite to unlocking better health, education, and economic outcomes.
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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact
Many argue that the social sector lacks data due to capacity, technology, and funding constraints. But what if there’s something more systemic going on?
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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.