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Growing Locally and Deeply
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
Essentials of Social Innovation
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.
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Finding Meaning in Measurement
Performance measurement can help employees see value and meaning in their work.
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Powering Needs, Empowering Lives
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
Can Social Innovation Rise to Meet the Moment?
In a world shaped by the twin advances of populism and authoritarianism, social innovation reminds us that all things are still possible.
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Trustees Capital
An excerpt from Effective Fundraising: The Trustee's Role and Beyond on the role of nonprofit trustees in development.
Overcoming Racial Equity Fatigue
Eighteen months after an unprecedented movement for racial justice, many organizations are feeling frustration and disappointment. What now?
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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.
For Love or Lucre
A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.
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.
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.