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Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Paul C. Light
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Ending poverty is beyond the reach of any single sector or actor
An Unusual Merger
A housing and health care charity for the elderly makes British history when it acquires a for-profit care company.
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Manish Bapna, managing director of World Resources Institute, is helping China manage its environmental problems.
If the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, They Have a Head Start in Cambodia
A Cambodian restaurant trains former street youth for jobs in the hospitality industry.
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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.