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Free Stock Photos for your Nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Get thousands of free stock photos for your nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise. We’ve compiled a list of free breathtaking stock photos for nonprofit organizations, NGO’s and Social Enterprises which you can use right away for your website, mailing list, social media or other online and offline activities.

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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

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. What’s your long-term vision for Shea Yeleen?

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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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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Today, it has the tenth-largest gross domestic product in the world. Today, Korea’s social and solidarity economy is increasingly mature—with a system of national legislation supporting four types of solidarity economy enterprises: self-sufficiency enterprises, social enterprises, village community enterprises, and cooperatives.

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Free webinar: How to sustain your nonprofit through social enterprise

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

One way to do this is with a social enterprise model. Nonprofits that apply the best practices of businesses and explore earned income strategies can open up new opportunities for revenue streams through fees for service, production of goods, or for-profit enterprises. Check out the details below.

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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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How an Irish Bakery Became a Healing Workplace

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DarioGaona on istock.com Caroline Johnston, founder of GreenIsland Bakery in Washington, DC, says that she “always wanted to create a social enterprise” to help women recover from trauma. GreenIsland’s is not a unique business model but is emblematic of what are sometimes called employment social enterprises (ESEs).