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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Furthermore, our research revealed that the unequal structure of Brazilian society is reproduced in the field of social entrepreneurship through two mechanisms.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Increasing transparency and accountability with multi-stakeholder frameworks: Moving the needle on improving governance is more likely when stakeholders from civil society and the business sector join.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

This foundation focuses on Civil Society, Education, Environment and the Flint Area.The Foundation seeks to fulfill its mission of supporting efforts that promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Areas served: US with a focus on the Great Lakes region.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through his entrepreneurship and philanthropy, Rowan demonstrated any number of virtues—humility, integrity, diligence, trust, generosity, compassion, and justice—and the college was subsequently renamed Rowan University in his honor, not at his request. It is time to stop treating donors like Roman statesmen.

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