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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity. The empirical record is clear.

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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. After introducing reading glasses to the product mix, the 33 percent margin on glasses significantly increased the margin on the Live Well basket of goods.

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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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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade.

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Building a Strong Nonprofit Brand [Step-by-step Guide + Free Resources]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Nonprofits, NGOs, Social Enterprise also need to create and manage a strong brand. You might not think about branding when you think about nonprofits, NGOs, and other social enterprises. Uses colors, shapes, and other visual elements in its products and promotions, Etc.” . Designs its logo. A great Branding book.

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How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

“A mission statement is a short statement of why your Nonprofit exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of your operations: what kind of product or service do you provide, who do you primarily help, and your geographical region of operation. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Based in Oakland, CA, and launched in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cooperative is forging a table of Black women-led, community-based organizations so Black cultural production across the city can thrive.

Culture 105