social enterprise

How Management Consultants Can Build A Better World

More and more, nonprofit philanthropists, such as Pierre M. Omidyar and Peter B. Lewis are providing management consulting services to their grantees in order to increase their organizational effectiveness.READ»

Social Business Leaders Speak Up: 9 Suggestions For Enterprise 2.0

This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston (June 20-23) is dedicated to the social aspects of business. Here are 9 sessions that I recommend attending.READ»

The Dirty Little Secret About Joining A Nonprofit Board

There are many reasons that people join nonprofit boards. The primary motivation is to do something good. But there is a reason that isn't discussed in polite company: "I want to join a board in order to develop business relationships." If you just want to make business contacts, there are way easier ways to network than to commit to multiple hours of board and committee meetings.READ»

American Expat Helps Hong Kong Startups Find Footing

Giants Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs dominate the metropolis. But is there now room for entrepreneurs?READ»

Indonesia's Organic "Learning Farm" Offers Street Kids a Path Toward Jobs

The farm helps children from violent backgrounds learn new skills, while teaching "respect for other creatures." If deals with the Four Seasons Hotel company and major supermarkets come through, the endeavor would get a considerable boost.READ»

Diamond Cab Picks Up Hong Kong's Fledgling Social Entrepreneurship Scene

A startup introduces Hong Kong's first disabled-friendly taxi service.READ»

Hybrid Corporations: What Business Are You In?

There are B corporations--benefit corporations--whose mandates are to serve the public good and also increase shareholder value. There are also L3Cs, low-profit limited liability corporations with a similar dual purpose. Translation: for-profit companies whose boards and managers are not expected to fully maximize the company's financial value. I have a fundamental problem with this.READ»

The Thin Mint Paradox

The more money brought in by a non-profit's side business, the smaller the share devoted to the organization's actual mission, suggests a new Pace University study.READ»

Skateistan Launches Product Line, Abandons Foreign Aid

Afghanistan's only skateboarding NGO, Skateistan, is launching products in more than 70 countries, with all proceeds going back to the NGO.READ»

• Skateistan Skate Park NGO, Kabul, Afghanistan

Outgoing Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Permanent Stamp on D.C. Schools

“Education is unlike any other industry in the world,” Kaya Henderson, the incoming interim chancellor of the Washington, D.C., schools, told me two years ago, when I was working on a profile for her now-outgoing boss, Michelle ...READ»

Changing the Rules of the Game: A Solution to the BP Problem

Wall Street caused the BP disaster. Short-termism is the problem. The Benefit Corporation is a solution.READ»

How Edesia Will Help Feed One Billion Hungry: One Child at a Time

“A billion people endure and suffer the irreversible effects of hunger and malnutrition,” Navyn Salem told me. Salem is the Founder and Executive Director of Edesia, a new nonprofit manufacturing company that produces life-saving ...READ»

The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas

The newest location of a global network of sustainable shared workspaces lives up to its tagline: "Where Change Goes to Work."READ»

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The Top Six Reasons Board Candidates Choose One Nonprofit Over Others

I have the joy of ushering business executives and professionals in exploring a variety of nonprofit boards. Each candidate goes through a thoughtful process of sorting through the plethora of causes that interest them, including ...READ»

Growth vs. Impact: Part 2

 It’s not that growth is unimportant or that it isn’t a useful metric – it can create jobs, wealth, and career development opportunities – it’s just that it’s an incomplete metric.  Growth of what.  ...READ»

The Golden Rule of Business

Do business with others as you would have them do business with you.As it is said — this is the whole of the Law; the rest is commentary.‘Do unto others’ is the sum total of every inspiring word every written or spoken about ...READ»

JackTheDonkey.com is growing up nicely

something like this will go out in the first newsletter (to those who signed up for Jack's newsletter...I'm not a fan of spam) you can also read the blog posting here to make 1.1 cents for the charities on Jack: http://www.jackthedonkey.com/JackDonkeyBlog_MTk=.htmlREAD»

Echoing Green: Leveraging Skills Based Business Volunteers for Social Enterprises

"Echoing Green deeply relies on the content expertise of its volunteers and supporters," according to Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green. Since 1987, Echoing Green has helped to launch 471 new social enterprises, including ...READ»

The 6 Characteristics of the Most Creative Social Entrepreneurs

Fast Company has been recognizing and listing the Most Creative People in Business and various other categories.  Spending my career with social entrepreneurs, I’d like to describe these magical people who are doing so much for ...READ»