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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. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. How can social entrepreneurship overcome these obstacles?

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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. There are still only a few examples of successful social enterprises serving poorer people at scale that were created by entrepreneurs from those communities.

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Nonprofit Professional Development | Resources for Success

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This flexibility allows learners to access and progress through courses at their own pace, from any location, ensuring that education fits seamlessly into their busy schedules. It’s our goal to provide these opportunities to help create a better world through education. Learn how a learning management system for nonprofits can help.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. They give money to get their name on the university. And I think that is very problematic.

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Lessons Learned in the First Year of My Social Venture

NonProfit Hub

I was at the tail-end of a grad program at the University of Kansas, and amazingly frustrated with the complete lack of action at a larger university like mine. I had to learn them, so I swallowed my pride and started my education over again (not really, but sort of). Quarter 1, 2014.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

INBOUND's purpose is to provide the inspiration, education, and connections you need to transform your business. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. INBOUND 2016.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Accounting.