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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social enterprises such as car-sharing programs are changing the nature of urban transportation and providing alternative options to individual car ownership. In turn, they can shape the actions of mainstream businesses in the city that tend to adopt social innovations more slowly.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return. But the hype persists.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

She is also the curator and founder of Betti Ono Foundation. Through a series of successfully negotiated community benefit agreements , BAMBD CDC has ensured the addition of low-income housing and below-market rate retail spaces to private developments. East Bay PREC purchased Esther’s for $1.5 million and plans to invest another $3.4

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to shatter previous records by reaching at least $218.3 By shopping at any of the 64 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their spending power this holiday season into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good.

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Newsletter: Lessons from NPR's Fact-Checking of Water.org's Super Bowl Ad

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. Cause Marketing 1.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings. Finally, companies need to acknowledge that biodiversity conservation is not just a scientific endeavor; it’s a social enterprise. These circularity principles can be applied across sectors.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Many retailers are also bringing health services into their stores.

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