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The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. How can social entrepreneurship overcome these obstacles? Support normative clarity.

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Online Competitions: Lessons from MIT’s Service Innovation Challenge

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For the last three years we’ve worked at the MIT Public Service Center – in collaboration with the MIT Alumni Association, MIT150 , and numerous stakeholders - to translate a campus-based innovation competition into an online platform that engages the worldwide MIT community. Foster community-mindedness and collaboration.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And how many families will choose to be bolder, to activate more of their resources with intention? Families are increasingly taking a portfolio approach that combines traditional grantmaking with values-aligned investing, advocacy strategies and political giving, social entrepreneurship, and more.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Imagine how much faster we might address global challenges if leaders across sectors, including professors, news producers, civil servants, business school students, Fortune 500 leaders, philanthropic consultants, and others readily recalled social innovation as a worthwhile lever to pull. We need these folks as champions and collaborators.