Who Gets Paid?
The funding that goes to intermediaries and consultants often dwarfs the support that social sector leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community-based advocates receive.
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Social Innovation: What It Is and What It Isn’t
The free market can do plenty of good on its own, so let's think more systematically beyond it.
Working with the Undercurrents
What tomorrow’s leaders can learn from artists.
Why Open Contests Work
A look at how competitions like those at the Knight Foundation serve the social entrepreneur community.
Dump the Stupid Prizes, Multiply the Rest
Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
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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.
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.
All Entrepreneurship Is Social
Let’s not overlook what traditional entrepreneurs contribute to society.
Social or Cultural Entrepreneurship: An Argument for a New Distinction
A look at the difference between cultural and social entrepreneurship.
Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies
Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better.