Goodness. Where to even start? It’s hard to distill almost two years of effort into one blog post, but I’ll do my best. TLDR* – I’ve been accepted to, and will be starting this fall, the Master of Science in Nonprofit Management program at Columbia University in the City of…
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For many of us in the social entrepreneurship space, The Skoll Foundation‘s annual World Forum, held in Oxford, England (April 9-12), is an anticipated event due to the innovative content and integrative global discussion that comes out of it. Unfortunately, it’s also an invite-only event. So, for the rest of…
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Incredible technology coming out of Finland from a start-up named SPINNOVA. Profiled in a recent FastCompany article, Spinnova’s tech promises to revolutionize the clothing industry by allowing many fiber based waste products (wood pulp, food waste, old clothing) to be reduced and reconstructed into high-quality fabric. “Your future T-shirts might…
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TARGET CORPORATION recently announced, in partnership with Fair Trade USA, that their Archer Farms coffee brand products will be certified fair trade by 2022. This is certainly a big move (and a welcome commitment) coming from a corporation as large as Target, but particularly so given that coffee futures are…
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“While some companies are struggling to sell solutions to outdated problems, other companies are figuring out how to solve a core problem. ‘That’s what I call inversion. You’ve got to wrap yourself around the need and think outwards, rather than limit yourself to your product.’” Really appreciated this article from…
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Letters of Intent to apply for recently announced U.S. Department of Treasury Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) funding are due in three weeks. This is a tremendous opportunity for state/local governments to pilot a social finance Social Impact Bond (SIB) approach for shovel-ready, evidence-based, outcomes-based social…
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“To advance sustainable and inclusive growth we need to address the puzzle of a simultaneous increase in wealth disparity and a decline in poverty.” Yuwa Hedrick-Wong and Howard Thomas offer an insightful shift in economics perspective. LINK: GLOBAL FOCUS MAGAZINE – ENABLING MODELS OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH: ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR FINANCIAL…
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“Despite many changes in our context – in its fundamentals, leadership has not changed over the years. It is still about mobilizing people in an organization around common goals to achieve impact, at scale.” LINK: HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW – THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LEADERSHIP STILL HAVEN’T CHANGED Image: Wokandapix / Pixabay
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