Beyond Greenwashing
An excerpt from Working to Restore on sustainable business.
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Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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The Emerging Field of Political Innovation
Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new field of practice seeks to reinvigorate democracy by emancipating social innovation from this stricture.
TV for Africa’s Deaf Community
Signs TV Uganda offers programming by deaf broadcasters that is also interpreted in sign to serve Africa’s growing, yet underserved, hearing-impaired demographic.
Saudi Female Social Entrepreneurs
Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
SSIR Online, Spring 2023 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about housing justice, ESG, funding social ventures, and the effects of large, unrestricted gifts on leaders.
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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.