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Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
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.
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Six research and design tips for social networks, community builders, and educational organizations that want to support gender-inclusive entrepreneurship.
An excerpt from Scaling Up Development Impact on scaling through government
Social enterprise law around the world faces a difficult trade-off between cultivating public trust and promoting scale. The sector will benefit by getting clearer on the available options.
Startup collaboratives often encounter challenges when converting their motivation to do good into action. We have created a minimum viable benefit process for agenda-setting that can help them start up and stay on track. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Center for Integrative Leadership, University of Minnesota.
An environmental initiative has taken the unusual step of partnering with residents to safeguard affordable housing and jobs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.