Posts Tagged as ‘blended value’

August 18, 2008

Top summer reads for social entrepreneurship

In preparation for some exciting upcoming fall projects and happenings (including the Social Capital Markets conference), I’ve been cruising around the web looking for interesting and insightful commentary and critique about social entrepreneurship. I wanted to share a few of the documents I’ve found most interesting.
Putting social entrepreneurship in context: Blendedvalue.org
While ’social entrepeneurship’ has gotten [...]

July 21, 2008

Do good geezers

Nick Kristoff’s op-ed yesterday was all about the “encore career,” a growing phenomenon in which retiring baby boomers devote themselves to some philanthropic cause.
The interesting thing about the phenomenon is the increased recognition of these activities as actual vocations, as important to the participants as their former professional careers. Indeed, he notes that for many, [...]

July 10, 2008

Social Entrepreneurship thrives in minority groups, reports UK-based Social Enterprise Coalition

A diagram of the “third sector’ in Europe from the UK National Council for Voluntary Organizations

The Telegraph reported today on a new study released by the Social Enterprise Coalition. The study finds that Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority communities have higher rates of social entrepreneurship than white people, and that “while women are only [...]