MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models | 24
For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider" or "the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe...
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Collective Impact | 37
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Connecting Heart to Head
Leaders of Alcoa and PUMA, two forward-looking multibillion-dollar global companies, describe a framework for sustainable growth.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation | 25
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design...
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition | 8
How do you define social entrepreneurship?
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Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work | 9
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
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The Trouble With Impact Investing – Part 1 | 14
There's only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
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The Top 10 Books on the Economics of Poverty | 6
A suggested reading list to provide a foundation for understanding development, aid, and poverty.
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Thoughts on Reluctant Entrepreneurship | 11
What’s unique to the Entrepreneurial Generation isn’t just that we are entrepreneurs; it’s why we’re entrepreneurs.
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Social Impact Bonds: Lessons from the Field | 4
In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.
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Big Picture
Commentary and analysis on social innovation ideas and approaches
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From The Field
On-the-ground reports from social enterprises around the world
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Interview
Behind the scenes with leaders of social change
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Point-Counterpoint
One issue, different points of view
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Practical Advice
Tips for social change leaders
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Research Notes
Summaries and analysis of new social innovation research
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Starting Up
SSIR’s hub for students, young professionals, and others new to social innovation
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Watchdog
Investigating organizations and the people who run them
