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Impact Investing

Investing Beyond Exit

An important question that social entrepreneurs should also be thinking about when dealing with impact investing.

By Brian Axelrad | Dec. 1, 2011
 
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Impact Investing

Constructing the Case for Impact Investment

What social entrepreneurs need to be thinking about when approaching impact investors and making the pitch for investment capital.

By Brian Axelrad | 4 | Nov. 30, 2011
 

Technology & Design

Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation

Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.

By Cheryl Heller | 2 | Nov. 28, 2011
 

Global Issues

Unexpected Innovation Lessons from the Do Lectures

Innovation doesn’t happen only in gleaming purpose-built labs with groups of geniuses hi-fiving each other as they surf the waves of change.

By Ella Saltmarshe | 1 | Nov. 23, 2011
 

SSIR blogger Amy Sample Ward’s passion for nonprofit technology has lead to her involvement with NTEN, NetSquared, and a host of other organizations.

Technology & Design

Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Don't be fooled into thinking strategies for online engagement can be cut and pasted from one platform to the next.

By Amy Sample Ward | 5 | Nov. 22, 2011
 

Impact Investing

Investing in Impact

As entrepreneurs create more for-profit businesses with strong social missions, the opportunity for socially minded investors to invest in them grows.

By Eric Nee | 2 | Nov. 17, 2011
 

Education

Sesame Workshop: Empowering Children Through Media

What benefits children today may not affect the children of tomorrow.

By H. Melvin Ming | Nov. 16, 2011
 

Technology & Design

Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking

Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.

By Tim Brown | Nov. 15, 2011
 

Social Entrepreneurship

In Search of Collaborative Spirit

Is collaborative competition … collaborative?

By Rafael Ziegler | 1 | Nov. 14, 2011
 

Technology & Design

From Crowdsourcing to CouchSurfing

An interview with Casey Fenton, co-founder of CouchSurfing.

By Roshan Paul | 1 | Nov. 10, 2011