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The “Lean Startup” Approach to Philanthropy

Homejoy, an affordable home cleaning service that caters to a broad audience and connects people…

Social Innovation Business Offers Financing Solutions to Youth

A Toronto-based organization, Youth Social Innovation (YSI), has recently announced two investments that involve Growth Mosaic and MENTORnetwork. The two companies will…

Partnerships in Social Enterprises Can Increase Social Impact

Chief executive of HCT, Dai Powell, shares the experiences and practical lessons he learned along the…

Social Enterprise Launches Hand-Woven Fashion to Empower Women

Uchit, operating as a social enterprise that means ‘fair’ or ‘just’ in Hindi, seeks to…

Social Enterprises Create ‘Buy Social’ Campaign

Research finds that a great number of social enterprises, businesses with social or environmental goals which…

Google+ and Mashable Holds First Charity Hangout-a-thon

Mashable  is teaming up with Google+ for its first-ever Hangout-a-thon on Dec. 3 for Giving Tuesday. The Hangout-a-thon is…

Hong Kong Continues to Support its Social Enterprise Sector

Hong Kong’s social enterprise sector seems to thrive, and the government declares its support for…

Pencils of Promise Picks up Entrepreneurial Momentum

Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise, is giving nonprofits a no-nonsense way to bring entrepreneurship…

Honest Tea: Living Somewhere in the Grey

“TEO” and co-founder of Honest Tea, Seth Goldman, talks about living in a shade of…

Social Enterprise in the Baltic States

The Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) have seen a positive economic growth in the…

Plymouth Intern Launches Social Enterprise for Student Safety

Plymouth’s Entrepreneurship Centre intern, James Holden, launches Student Safety Ltd to keep students safe on the streets…

Celebrity Support in Social Enterprises

Although celebrity names and support associated with social enterprises can be an effective tool to promote…

GiveEasy – A Thriving Social Enterprise

GiveEasy is a social enterprise startup geared for growth after partnering with Australia Post, a move…

Rolled Into One: Locavesting, Social Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding

Award-winning journalist and Forbes contributor, Anne Field, explains the ways in strengthening communities at the same…

Plymouth Nurses Launch Social Enterprise to Care for Dementia Patients

Laura Walker, a registered mental health nurse, and Kate Smith, a registered general nurse, put…

Social Entrepreneur Catches Waste of Opportunity

Steven Cornish, founder of aimwith, based in Silicon Valley, CA, is a social equity marketplace for impact where…

Top 10 Books to Spark the Social Entrepreneurial Spirit

The boon of social entrepreneurship serves as an inspiration to many to start their own…

Beyond the Four Walls are Empowered Rural Nepalese Women

Social entrepreneur, Stefan Wolf , founded the Beyond the Four Walls, which builds cyber “resource…

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