MANA 3002 - Business & its Environment: Getting ideas

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This page has resources for getting ideas, seeing what other people and groups have done.

Other news sources ...

Below are links to some news sources that have regular pieces on social entrepreneurship. Obviously, other news sources cover social entrepreneurship too, but perhaps less regularly. For these, I was able to pull out this content more easily, and link to it.

Forbes Magazine - Social Entrepreneurship
Next Billion Newsfeed
Next Billion offers "insights on the latest news, events, interviews and other happenings from the development through enterprise and base of the pyramid universes ..."
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NPR keyword search on "social entrepreneurship"
PBS NewsHour - Social Entrepreneurship
An occasional series of articles.

Examples, case studies

Below are links to websites that provide examples, or case studies, of social entrepreneurship.

Corporate Citizen (magazine)
An occasional publication from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Some articles feature specific companies and their initiatives.
Verb U - the Dell Social Innovation Challenge
Browse projects in current and past competitions.
TecnoConect
Formerly called Invennovations.
It is "a free resource designed to capture and disseminate the inventions and innovations being created and implemented around the world to serve vulnerable populations."
World Inquiry Innovation Bank
From Case Western University.
An historical collection of case studies from World Inquiry into business as an agent of world benefit. Current through 2015; succeeded by AIM2Flourish.
AIM2Flourish
Also from Case Western Reserve University, this is the successor site to World Inquiry Innovation Bank. They also award the Flourish Prizes, "recognizing the role businesses play in achieving the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development".

Organizations

Ashoka Changemakers
Offers information and opportunities to bring a diverse group of people together to change the world in a positive way.
Blended Value
Identifies and outlines key actors, web resources, books, articles, and appears in the arenas of corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, social investing, strategic/effective philanthropy, and sustainable development.
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Information about the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Echoing Green
Echoing Green aims to spark social change by identifying, investing, and supporting the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.
Engineers for a Sustainable World
Website that aims to mobilize engineers to build collaborative partnerships. Provides a list of websites, projects, and ways to get involved.
Ideo.org
Goal: "to improve lives through design".
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
Provides information about seminars, workshops, and consulting services for social entrepreneurs.
Innovation Policy Platform
Developed by the World Bank Group and the OECD, this site ... "provides easy access to knowledge, learning resources, indicators and communities of practice on the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovation policies."
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Supports the work of social entrepreneurs through events, research, and work with academic institutions.
The Skoll Foundation
"Our mission is to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems."
Social Enterprise
From Harvard Business School.
Social Entrepreneurship: Center for Social Innovation
Information from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation.
Social Impact Exchange
Formerly Growth Philanthropy Network.
Social Innovation Forum
Formerly part of Root Cause.