Stanford Social Innovation Review

Larger social service organizations may result in less innovation.

Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary – the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. The problem with focusing so much attention on the individual entrepreneur is that it neglects to recognize and support thousands of other individuals, groups, and organizations that are crafting solutions to troubles around the globe.

How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.

Moving toward a sustainable model.

Civil society may not be in such bad shape.

A rare study shows how earned income helps agencies –- and how it doesn’t.

A Czech social enterprise uses woodworking to help drug addicts.

How an all-natural Mexican farming cooperative is improving its community while making a bundle.

Why a promising social franchise collapsed.

Environmental lawyers around the world join forces via E-LAW.

As nice as it is to think that modern corporations can do well while also doing good, there are serious limitations that the market imposes on their CSR initiatives. In addition, the legal obligations of corporations to their shareholders further restrict CSR’s potential to help solve social and environmental problems. At some point, we should be asking ourselves whether or not we’ve been promoting a strategy more likely to lead to business as usual than to tackling the fundamental problems of our time. 

Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits.

The emergence
of microenterprise development
programs internationally and in
the United States

The social enterprise that beat city hall.

Minnesota Public Radio: social purpose capitalism.