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The T-Rex and the Snowshoe Hare: What’s Next for Philanthropy in the 2020s
What an often-misunderstood part of Darwin’s theory of evolution can tell us about where philanthropy might be headed.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Why We Didn’t Fund Your Scaling Plan
A checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications.
SSIR’s 2022 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
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Private Firms, Public Initiatives
An excerpt from The Right Privatization on why private entrepreneurs need capable governments.
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Learning in Fog
An excerpt from The Upside of Uncertainty on facing the unknown with courage.
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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.