Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: The California state legislature is currently reviewing a bill that would create a new corporate form called ...
What makes school reform succeed? A report recently released by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company suggests that school reform is most effective when under-performing school systems identify where they are on the “school improvement journey” and select interventions particular to that stage. ...
We thought we'd kick off the year with a look at some of the trends currently shaping the movement. What follows is the culmination of a series of interviews with a diverse group of experts. Each trend also links to a longer Q&A ...
Living Goods is a hybrid microfinance and public health organization; it operates a network of saleswomen in Uganda who go door to door offering health products, like bed nets, condoms and water treatment tabs, at affordable prices. The women get a reliable job, ...
In the giving season, choosing where to donate can be difficult; the staggering number of important organization and causes is overwhelming, and where you put your money is as important as how much you give. Giving What We Can keeps careful tabs on ...
Talk about a single girl who's been trafficked from her home country, held captive, and forced into servitude -- and your audience will naturally listen and sympathize. But talk about the number of individuals around the world who face a situation like hers ...
In time for the gift-buying season, Fair Trade USA launched a new a fair trade certification for apparel. Their other certifications, like the ubiquitous fair trade coffee, enable consumers to vote with their dollars. But up to this point, the apparel industry, though ...
The difficulty of measuring impact is one of the most persistent and nagging challenges in the social arena. Organizations evaluate their results in different ways, using different tools and benchmarks. The result is a hodgepodge of metrics that make it difficult to compare ...
In our Big Ideas series, we check in regularly with leading thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they're working on, what questions they're wresting with, and what opportunities and challenges they see up ahead for the sector. Today ...
We asked this year's Unreasonable Institute Fellows, who are in the early stages of developing innovative social ventures, to reflect on some key takeaways from the eight-week Summer Institute they attended. Here, Khalida Brohi of Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) shares her experience. By ...