This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Only about 4% of the roughly $140 billion in impact investing assets globally make it to Southeast Asia. And only a fraction of that goes to the region’s women entrepreneurs, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Social innovation has become a popular policy buzzword globally, prompting strategies across all levels of government, as well as in business and philanthropy. Unfortunately, as many of us interested in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 35 years ago, pioneer investor Wayne Silby co-founded Calvert Social Investment Fund, the nation’s first socially responsible mutual fund. In this article, he offers his advice for aligning business…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rise of so many right-wing nationalist movements around the world—Brexit, Donald Trump, the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, anti-immigrant protests throughout Europe—have their own distinctive origins and contexts, to be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Singularity University (SU), a global community with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges, today announced SU Ventures, a new program designed for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Businesses seem to have a hard time getting their arms around how to think about social impact. The approach to social impact is in many cases innate to the character…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofit leaders have a natural entrepreneurial mindset. They have to, because like startup founders, nonprofit leaders aim to solve a problem by providing goods or services. In the process, they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you think of a social-change effort as a fraction, the denominator represents the size of a given social need, while the numerator exemplifies what a given organization is currently…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many educators cheered the news, announced earlier this week, that a consortium of tech firms had pledged a collective $300 million towards bettering STEM education in the United States. A New York…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has recently assumed strategic significance in the industrial world for companies and governments alike. In emerging countries that seek to build vital economies, CSR has taken…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From large financial institutions to the world’s most influential philanthropic foundations, impact investing has emerged as powerful tool for social change, and a decisive point of attraction for the next…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In an interview, Sam Parker, director of Shell Foundation, talks about impact investment, early-stage investing in social enterprises to meet the ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations,…