In recent years, a new breed of venture capital firms has emerged to make an impact beyond just profitability. Social venture capital funds are adding a new mission in combination with positive financial returns: social and environmental impact. Highlighting social ...Read More
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit, independent and neutral organization, founded in 1998, with the purpose to advance social entrepreneurship and to foster social entrepreneurs as an important catalyst for societal innovation and progress. The Foundation is ...Read More
Focusing on the business of social innovation, Volans is part think-tank, part consultancy, part broker and part incubator. We are a for-profit company based in London and Singapore and we work globally with entrepreneurs, businesses, investors and governments to develop ...Read More
The goal of Humanity+ is to support discussion and public awareness of emerging technologies, to defend the right of individuals in free and democratic societies to adopt technologies that expand human capacities, and to anticipate and propose solutions for the ...Read More
Trickle Up helps very poor people make their way out of poverty. We provide business training, seed capital grants and support to ...Read More
The awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank gave international recognition to the quiet movement of microfinance- a concept that converged two very different views of development, social development and market-driven development, together. Grameen ...Read More
blueEnergy is a nonprofit organization that provides a sustainable solution to the energy needs of marginalized communities through the construction, installation, and maintenance of hybrid wind and solar electric systems. blueEnergy manufactures wind turbines and other key components locally, near ...Read More
Question Box is Open Mind’s initiative to bring information to people the way they want to receive it. For us, that means: Local language Live telephone hotlines SMS answers & more All Question Box projects are tailored to match the needs of the locations we operate ...Read More
Socially responsible investing, which aims to maximize both financial return and social good, often gets a bad rap. There’s a perception that returns in the sector fall victim to social goals, or vice versa. Josh Cohen believes his firm, City Light ...Read More
B-corp, L3C, LLC, 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), for-profit corporation. The existing array of legal structures that social enterprises can be defined under is dizzying. In this article, tax lawyer Robert Wexler lays out this "menu of legal structures," offering a clear ...Read More