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Maybe It's Time For A Social Enterprise Stock Exchange
Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard of a stock exchange specifically for social enterprises. If your hands are still down, you’re in good company. Most people in the U.S.—even many of the movers and shakers in the social enterprise space—have never heard of a so-called social stock exchange. Ho... → Read More
Who Gives A Crap: The Toilet Paper Social Enterprise Improving Sanitation in the Developing World
One day, serial entrepreneur Simon Griffiths' eyes fell on a supply of toilet paper rolls. It sparked an epiphany: He could sell toilet paper and donate 50 percent of the profits to pay for toilets in the developing world. And at that very moment, the Who Gives A Crap toilet tissue company was born. → Read More
Support Production of an Innovative Disaster Relief Shelter Inspired by a Starbucks Coffee Cup
Learn about the Exo housing unit lauded by Fast Company as "unparalleled in the world of disaster relief solutions". Providing private living and sleeping quarters for a family of four within a climate-controlled environment, the Exo is durable enough to be stored on a long-term basis and stacks... → Read More
The No Make-up Selfie Campaign that Raised £2M for Cancer Research
Last week, women began posting pictures of themselves without make-up on Twitter and Facebook in the name of cancer awareness. The campaign went viral and has raised £2M for charity Cancer Research UK. Despite criticism, the organic campaign seems to prove that 1) people want to show their soli... → Read More
How We Can Stop Avoiding "Risky" Projects & Start Funding Them
Many donors have lost their appetite for experimentation, preferring to fund existing programs that produce mediocre results. But innovation is the key to truly cracking the intractable social problems we face. Instead of quick wins, a new breed of funders now looks for transformation—investing i... → Read More
Vote for Your Favorite Ashoka Changemaker: Help ANA Provide Flights and Funds to Causes
ANA and Ashoka are proving that business and nonprofit sectors can work together to tackle the world's most pressing social problems. Register as a Blue Wing member using your Facebook account or email address and vote for an Ashoka changemaker each week. For every vote, ANA will donate $0.50 t... → Read More
Join Acumen's Course on Human Centered Design for Social Innovation
Spend a couple hours a week for seven weeks learning about the importance of incorporating the principles of human-centered design when creating solutions to problems of poverty so that low-income customers are provided with choice, not just charity. → Read More
Could Every Business Be a Social Enterprise?
Author and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan dreams of a day when a company is judged not by the size of its balance sheet but the scale of its positive impact; the day when every business is a social enterprise – and those that aren't simply don't stand a chance. I do too, Margaret. I do too. → Read More
Who Knew Rap Was the "Music of Entrepreneurship"?
Watch (and snicker) as VC expert Ben Horowitz quotes hip hop lyrics to support business advice. Read more <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-03-11/how-rap-teaches-you-more-about-business-than-books">here</a>. → Read More