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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. Social enterprises driven by a desire to improve lives can also get mired in ideological conflict.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

After some years, DJ Bola found out about the Artemisia accelerator program, the first social enterprise accelerator in Brazil. DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Nonprofit Radio for March 20, 2023: #23NTC & Is A Social Enterprise For You?

Tony Martignetti

Tamra Ryan: Is A Social Enterprise For You? What are these and how … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for March 20, 2023: #23NTC & Is A Social Enterprise For You? Amy Sample Ward, NTEN’s CEO and our technology contributor, tells us what’s in store. Tamra Ryan: Is A Social Enterprise For You?

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Scaling a Nonprofit: Lessons from Southside Blooms’ Rapid Growth

The Charity CFO

Funding Mix and Donor Relations Southside Blooms’ current funding mix is approximately: 45% earned revenue from their social enterprise 55% philanthropic support Interestingly, Blackwell found that as their business side grew stronger, it became easier to secure larger philanthropic grants.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

.” Due to the persistent idea that only nonprofits can and should solve pressing societal issues, many social entrepreneurs feel they are in a bind. Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. The Investment Mirage.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For all that entrepreneurship has spread across the world, the kind of “survival entrepreneurship” so prevalent in developing countries today—in which people have no choice but to run a small business, and make just enough to survive—has not been transformative at the level of a country.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: What it Takes to Start a Nonprofit Organization

The Charity CFO

Social Enterprise & Tradeoffs This is a buzzword that you need to know. Dr. White continues the conversation by pointing out that more and more people want to monetize something that feels like a social mission to them, which is actually termed social enterprise.