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A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

Blue Avocado

Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. Collaboration with ESPERA partners allows for various support, including workshops and regular staff visits.

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The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. How can social entrepreneurship overcome these obstacles? To drive impact and build trust, provide clear guidelines based on normative principles to evaluate social entrepreneurship.

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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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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. It also includes making the case to government and helping those in the public sector understand how social innovation can achieve their goals.

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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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Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

was mindful of these shifts and challenges in 2015, when the Rwandan government asked us to help reform the school subject of entrepreneurship. The study of entrepreneurship is mandatory at the upper secondary level—the last three years before students go on to tertiary education or work—across the country’s schools.

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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. Some governments are paving the way in terms of accountability and procurement. The Investment Mirage.