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Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman, Daniel Gulati and W. Oliver Segovia

Social Entrepreneurship

Floating Above the Boxes: Business, Nonprofit, and the Age of Falling Boundaries

An excerpt from Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders.

By John Coleman, Daniel Gulati and W. Oliver Segovia
 

Impact Investing

Impact Investing: What Exactly Is New?

A veteran of the microfinance industry looks at impact investing through the lenses of history, language, and psychology.

By Roger Frank | 3 | Winter 2012
 
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Philanthropy

Public Good Politics

Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz

Reviewed By Lucy Bernholz | Winter 2012
 

Health

A Healthier City

San Francisco’s five-year-old universal health care program sees positive results.

By Meredith May | Winter 2012
 

Measuring Social Impact

Social Impact Markets

Why a market for social innovations is needed now more than ever.

By Andrew Wolk | Winter 2012
 

Socially Responsible Business

Making Businesses More Responsible

Corporate sustainability reporting is increasingly mandated by government and the public.

 

Socially Responsible Business

Connecting Heart to Head

Leaders of Alcoa and PUMA, two forward-looking multibillion-dollar global companies, describe a framework for sustainable growth.

By Ram Nidumolu, Kevin Kramer, & Jochen Zeitz | Winter 2012
 

Technology & Design

Open Source for Humanitarian Action

Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.

By Brandon Keim | Winter 2012
 

Human Rights

Diversity Opportunities

New research finds that some companies are increasingly pro-diversity and others lag well behind.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Winter 2012
 

Intermediaries

The Rise of Social Capital Market Intermediaries

Donors and grantmakers are allocating money more efficiently, thanks to the emergence of information and funding intermediaries.

By Bill Meehan & Kim Jonker | Winter 2012