4 Jul 2011

Not all social entrepreneurs are able to raise commercial funding. Many end up falling between two stools when operating in the cross-section of commercial and non-commercial enterprise: social foundations are reluctant to give grants to profit-making companies, and commercial investors hold back because it takes too long for them to create a financial return on [...]

20 Jun 2011

For the social entrepreneur, the choice of business model depends on the social venture’s value-adding proposition as well as growth ambitions in the short and long term. And because social entrepreneurs are in business to create social value and change, they put effectiveness before scale.

24 May 2011

Where the business entrepreneur may use social responsibility as a means to make a profit, the social entrepreneur uses market methods and makes money as a means to meet social goals for the benefit of society.