Can Anyone Be a Social Entrepreneur? Is Everyone or Anyone Truly a “Change...
Bill Drayton, Ashoka’s founder, and I agree on many things, but on Ashoka’s rallying cry of “everyone a changemaker,” we’ve agreedread more
View ArticleCan You Really Change the World on the Cheap?
Paul McCartney had it right: “Money can’t buy me love.” But for just about everything else in the world, money helps. As for changing the world, it’s downright necessary!read more
View ArticleSo Where’s the Proof Social Entrepreneurship Works?
In fact, there’s a good deal of compelling evidence—beyond default references to Muhammad Yunus and microfinance—that social entrepreneurs are producing results at scale.read more
View ArticleFailure Anyone?
Do social entrepreneurs and their ventures fail? You bet! Do philanthropists? Of course!read more
View ArticleWelcome to Philanthropy’s "Pandora"—A Land Free of Trade-Offs and Contradictions
Much of the "new philanthropy," it seems to me, inhabits a world like Pandora of Avatar—James Cameron’s new film that is now the biggest blockbuster of all time.read more
View ArticleAdvancing Women and Girls in Liberia
“Women are part of the development agenda for the first time—and we are making use of our time. Traditional culture has made us reticent. But no more.read more
View ArticleIt's a book!
About two years ago CSPCS, along with the Fuqua School's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and the Bridgespan Group, hosted a conference at Duke titled "Scaling Social...
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When Philanthropists Get It Wrong
Economist Zoltan Acs, who has made his academic mark mostly by thinking and writing about entrepreneurship, haread more
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Social Impact Bonds: Do Benefits Outweigh the Drawbacks?
Through some combination of interest and luck, I have been listening to a lot of discussion of Social Impact Bonds, which are also known as Pay for Success programs, recently (see below for...
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