Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Africa
Ned Breslin speaks with Towera Jalakasi, an innovative entrepreneur who talks about the struggles and rewards of entrepreneurship in a developing economy.
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Social Entrepreneurship Innovative ideas for social entrepreneurs who tackle society’s problems
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Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.
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The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator describes the journeys of ten innovators who discovered problems that they couldn't ignore.
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
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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.