Getting Honest About What We’re Willing to Risk for the Planet
Why NGOs and funders need to take bigger leaps toward innovation in environmental conservation, and how a back-of-the-napkin risk assessment tool can help.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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Follow the Fool
An excerpt from Changemaker Playbook on empathy-based ethics, co-creative teamwork, and clowns.
SSIR Online, Fall 2021 Issue
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on racism, the social economy, grassroots movements, global development, and the climate crisis.
A Better Way to Keep People From Going Back to Prison
Most programs that try to help formerly imprisoned people re-enter society and avoid reincarceration have been far from successful. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may help turn the tide.
How to Make the Most Out of Business Accelerator Programs for Development
Research on 23,000 ventures reveals factors that donors, managers, and entrepreneurs should consider as they choose to support, run, or use accelerators, the increasingly popular training programs that help businesses succeed.
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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.