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Growing Locally and Deeply
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
Essentials of Social Innovation
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.
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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption
Development philanthropists should focus on building the productive capacity of entire countries to achieve large-scale economic transformation, rather than enabling a few individuals to increase their consumption.
10 SSIR Stories on Impact Investing’s Next Phase
Ten SSIR articles that examine the growing field of impact investing from a range of perspectives, including investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, researchers, social entrepreneurs, and local communities.
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Change Resistance
An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education
The Innovator’s Tale of the Phoenix and Dragon
How social innovators can manage their organizations in a way that balances a linear, problem-fixing approach and a more exploratory, agile one.
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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India
How rural women are unbraiding borders to reclaim power in agrarian India
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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.
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.