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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship by Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair How can social entrepreneurship promote social justice? Universities may be able to help by building opportunities for students to take relevant action beyond the classroom. An unlikely source provides an unambiguous and practical framework.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. We need these folks as champions and collaborators. At a time when government funds are decreasing, collaborating to better coordinate and leverage these funding flows is even more essential.

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We Just Lost $54 Billion. Now What?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In collaboration with Ministries of Health in Kenya, South Sudan , and Mali , it can treat 20 percent more malnourished children by simplifying its approach. Collaboration between complementary partners can also unlock scale opportunities. In Kampala and Nairobi, IRC coordinates Re: BUiLD , a five-year, 30 million Euro ($33.4

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Furthermore, our research revealed that the unequal structure of Brazilian society is reproduced in the field of social entrepreneurship through two mechanisms.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through his entrepreneurship and philanthropy, Rowan demonstrated any number of virtues—humility, integrity, diligence, trust, generosity, compassion, and justice—and the college was subsequently renamed Rowan University in his honor, not at his request. It is time to stop treating donors like Roman statesmen.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Increasing transparency and accountability with multi-stakeholder frameworks: Moving the needle on improving governance is more likely when stakeholders from civil society and the business sector join.