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 [...]

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 [...]

India, Harvard, Social Enterprise: all in a day’s links

Its busy getting ready for an upcoming trip to San Francisco, so I thought I’d flag some of the articles that have come in through my reader that I’ve starred for later:
Base of the Pyramid Themes Underpin India’s Election – From the Acumen Fund blog
The Future of Social Enterprise working paper – from Harvard Business [...]