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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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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Call for Entrepreneurship Many entrepreneurs choose health care as a venue for innovation because it is one of the sectors where one can do well by doing good. However, the majority of entrepreneurship in the health sector has focused on downstream interventions such as therapeutics and health delivery solutions.

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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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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Borrowing language from recent findings on rural entrepreneurship, rural philanthropy should be understood as “a distinct phenomenon worthy of distinct focus.” So how can rural philanthropy meet this moment? These managers are skilled generalists who live and are rooted in each defined region across East Texas.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Either we rely on grant and donor funding, or must continually justify to investors and the public that our entrepreneurship is relevant to solving some of the most pressing issues of our time. Let’s bring together entrepreneurs with promising solutions, give them a few million dollars, and encourage them to work collaboratively.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It was in this context that the authors began working together: Michelle as initiative director of the BHC Collaborative in Del Norte County and Tribal Lands and Geneva as TCE’s program officer. Of primary importance was the collaborative relationship Wild Rivers Community Foundation formed with The California Endowment.