Social Enterprise 2.0
Moving toward a sustainable social enterprise model.
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Tainted Love
Tough love programs hurt addicts and adolescents.
What Profits Do for Nonprofits
A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.
Organic Growth
How an all-natural Mexican farming cooperative is improving its community while making a bundle.
An Enterprising Failure
Why a promising social franchise collapsed.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
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.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Do No Evil
Google DotOrg launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the results have been less than stellar.