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Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006 after starting five previous businesses, including a national campus laundry service and an online driver’s education company. socially responsible business

Socially Responsible Business

A New Model for Philanthropy

Through a simple purchase, a consumer is making a direct impact on someone’s life around the globe.

By Blake Mycoskie | 2 | Dec. 9, 2011
 
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Philanthropy

Philanthropy as Infrastructure?

As a society, we should not encourage the replacement of public responsibilities by private philanthropy.

By Lucy Bernholz | 2 | Oct. 19, 2011
 
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Corporate Philanthropy

Apple Announces 10K Employee Matching Gift Program

Apple's employee matching gift program is a great first step, but it still has a ways to go.

By Perla Ni | Sep. 8, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Sean Stannard-Stockton is CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors. Strategic Philanthropy

Social Innovations

GOOD Buys Jumo, Seeks Social Connective Tissue

Jumo might just move from being a content platform for people who give a damn to an immersive experience.

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Aug. 23, 2011
 

Socially Responsible Business

Collapse of an Iconic Social Enterprise

The ShoreBank saga provides important lessons for people who believe that for-profit institutions can be used for social change.

By Eric Nee | Aug. 18, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Matthew Scharpnick is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Elefint Designs, a socially responsible design and marketing firm that works with good causes.

Technology & Design

Why Good Causes Need Great Design

Few things are as important to an organization’s growth as great design.

By Matt Scharpnick | 4 | Aug. 1, 2011
 

Social Entrepreneurship

The Rise of Kant, MBA

The Age of Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise is upon us.

By Scott Hartley | Jul. 6, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Stephanie Wolcott is social responsibility director for the Alcoa Foundation in New York City and serves as content contributor to KIN Global at the Kellogg School of Management.

Health

San+Co: Waste is Terrible Thing to Waste

A new social enterprise aims to provide a unique sanitation service to shantytowns.

By Stephanie Wolcott | 1 | Jun. 28, 2011
 

Socially Responsible Business

Explaining the Long-term Single Bottom Line

Publicly owned companies will be most effective in creating social benefit when they plan for a long time horizon and focus on a single bottom line.

By Daniel Altman and Jonathan Berman | 3 | Jun. 24, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Jonathan Kalan, founder of The (BoP) Project. corporate social responsibility

Philanthropy

From the Field: Impact First

Social enterprises in East Africa seem to have two quite distinct commonalities: a comprehensive, impact-driven business model, and a plan to “scale big.”

By Jonathan Kalan | 3 | Jun. 17, 2011