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Not Invented, But Scaled Here

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems. Obstacles related to operational infrastructure and access can be costly to solve, derailing a social enterprise’s scaling ambitions.

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ESG Needs a Shared Language

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While nonprofits and social enterprises tend to want to use it as a tool to force companies to contribute to the SDGs, investors want consistent measures to evaluate financial decisions (namely risk), and business leaders want not to incur higher costs.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

After some years, DJ Bola found out about the Artemisia accelerator program, the first social enterprise accelerator in Brazil. DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. The company has pledged to procure five percent of its spend from social enterprises and companies led by underrepresented founders by 2025. Consider SAP’s 2020 5 & 5 by 25 announcement.

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Member Benefit: Free course on using AI tools for good

CNPE

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Effective Social Media Marketing for Nonprofits [Course]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Nonprofit Marketers are the heroes of our society Get the course with tactics, strategies, tools, and homework to get more out of your social media marketing efforts. We want to keep the quality of interactions high and we find a small fee being a great way of filtering out the ones that just want to join the community to spam.

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Amazing Tools for Your Online Business Stack

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These tools improve your ability to manage clients, send emails, and efficiently collaborate across different departments in your company. >For Sprout Social. Sprout Social is one of the leading social media management software that will help you connect with users in a collaborative team platform and publish it to social media.