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February 2019
Report: Social Enterprise Develpment in the Middle East and North Africa
Report: SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, A Qualitative Analysis of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine, 2017: soc_ent in mideast
30 under 30 Social Entrepreneurs by Forbes
Forbes just announced the list of 30 young social entrepreneurs. To see the list, please go to the original article.
5 lessons for social entrepreneurs on how to change the system
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship manages the largest network of late-stage social entrepreneurs in the world. Yet when you talk to most entrepreneurs in our community, they describe their impact as a “drop in the ocean”. They say things such as: “I’m not even 5% of the way to where I want to be”. For a field long obsessed by the holy grail of organizational scale, the social entrepreneurship sector is coming to terms with the limits of incremental growth. The needs are just too large and too urgent, and the models for scaling that we have developed remain too narrow and take too long. Conventional scaling models borrowed from the private sector, such as branch replication and social franchising, seem woefully inadequate to meet the size of the need. […]
Did you check GoToMeeting? A new tool for conference calls
Recently I have come across the GoToMeeting collaboration tool. The best part of it is the ability to use your phone and get connected to multiple people from different countries into one conference call by dialing a dedicated local number and special code. Below is a short review of the app and the link. […]
Deloitte Social Investment Leveraging Index in CEE
The new Deloitte Social Investment Leveraging Index (DSILI) developed by Deloitte in partnership with EVPA and GSEN provides arguments on why investing for impact through social investment may yield significant social returns in Central and Eastern Europe. [...]
The Hidden Revolution – new initiative in the UK to map social enterprises
The Hidden Revolution, supported by Nationwide and Co-op Group, presents a fresh analysis of the size and scale of the social enterprise sector. According to independent analysis, the social enterprise sector makes a £60bn contribution to UK GDP, compared to £24bn in previous research. The Hidden Revolution also brings together key statistics which show that social enterprises are more competitive than traditional firms, confirmed that social enterprises are the Future of Business. […]
