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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 2, 2024
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. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A clear opportunity exists for philanthropic capital to unlock this kind of private and public sector capital, through targeted investments. In the 20 years that Building Markets has supported small and medium-sized firms, we have found that there are three primary reasons why SME growth gets overlooked as a funding priority.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
If environmental outcomes can become assets, why can’t social outcomes? Social impact, totaling $72.05 trillion in terms of government social spend, philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management could be considered the world’s largest financial market today.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Companies can also look beyond their own walls for innovative ideas.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2022
As a former Windows on the World worker and a co-founder of ROC who witnessed the restaurant’s opening (2005) and closing (2020), I believe it is important to assess what worked, what did not, and what can be learned from the experience that might inform future co-op and social enterprise efforts. million yearly.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.
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