Where’s Our Bubble?
Investment in the most promising ideas and the highest performing nonprofits lags well behind their true value.
Investment in the most promising ideas and the highest performing nonprofits lags well behind their true value.
Nonprofits are still sorely needed in the US.
Lessons for becoming the best can translate from companies to social organizations.
Key social innovators have succeeded against all odds –– and with little financial muscle.
Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.