Advice to Aspiring Social Entrepreneurs
Echoing Green 
January 26th, 2012
How do I know if a business is the right way to make the difference to the area I want to explore? I’d say let it grow organically.
Read MoreReaching New Heights in Sustainable Employee Engagement
Taiga Company 
January 17th, 2012
“Often, sustainability programs are seen as a bolt-on solution aimed to achieve specific marketing, operational or mitigation results. Along with their programs, sustainability professionals can struggle with an undefined sense of organizational belonging. Sustainability professionals may find that the necessary resources to build an integrated and successful enterprise sustainability program already exist at their company [...]
Read MoreThe Key to Global Prosperity: Worker Ownership
The Guardian
January 9th, 2012
Shared ownership helps to diversify rather than concentrate wealth and roots the value it generates in communities.
Read MoreKeeping the Faith
Calvert Foundation 
January 3rd, 2012
Congregations and religious retirement funds continue to be some of the most significant contributors to impact investing institutions, and this commitment to social justice through investment was established decades prior to the current excitement about impact investing.
Read MoreA Not-So-Unreasonable Conversation: Female Social Entrepreneurs on a Gender Lens
Criterion Ventures 
December 21st, 2011
The multiplied social and financial returns that result when gender is taken seriously – in investing (and impact investing), in business (and social business) – are inextricably tied.
Read MoreWhy Authentic Fair Trade Matters: The CESMACH Story Retold
Equal Exchange 
January 19th, 2012
This article exemplifies the difference between Authentic Fair Trade and a corporate-centered imitation of Fair Trade. The former focuses on small farmer co-operatives and a belief that Fair Trade’s mission is to support the development model of organized farmers.
Read MoreTen UK Schools Pilot Crowd-funded Solar Roof Projects
Positive News
January 16th, 2012
Ten British schools are attempting to ‘crowd fund’ their own solar panel roofs, with support from carbon reduction organisation
Read MorePatagonia Registers as California’s First Benefit Corporation
B Corp
January 4th, 2012
Founder Yvon Chouinard Leads Largest Group of Businesses
to Register on First Effective Date.
Solar Start-Up Improves Quality of Life for 700,000
This Big City
December 28th, 2011
The company has ignited private enterprise across Africa and Madagascar with its unique model for distributing affordable solar electricity.
Read MoreTop 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Cooperative
CoFed 
December 15th, 2011
We love people-powered innovations that do good on multiple fronts, and campus food coops are a great example.
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