Wayne Embree, a vice president at the Oklahoma City nonprofit incubator i2E, offers five tips for entrepreneurs who want to make the most of small- and medium-sized markets.
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Feed SubscriptionWhy Planned Parenthood Should Change Its Name
With the current brouhaha over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s defunding of breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, the backlash, the reversal, and the exposure of the source of the initial decision, it’s obvious that Planned Parenthood is in a constant storm of contentious political struggle (even if the most recent dust-up was an unplanned branding bonanza ). And, it’s been happening for a long time.
Read More »Catching Up With Kiva
Kiva's director of social performance illuminates how the nonprofit has confronted naysayers as it expands its microlending to the U.S.
Read More »Pandora And SoundExchange Spar Over Royalty Fees
Pandora's Tim Westergren says licensing fees eat up a massive chunk of cash. SoundExchange's Michael Huppe says artists deserve it
Read More »What Is Alzheimer’s Disease? A Visual Primer
As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age. That figure could reach 115 million by 2050 , concludes the nonprofit Alzheimer's Disease International .
Read More »What Is Alzheimer’s Disease? A Visual Primer
As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age.
Read More »The Merit Of Slow Capital
If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.
Read More »How Verité Is Improving Labor Conditions At Your Favorite Companies
When big companies--like Apple, Levi's, or the Gap--are caught treating their workers badly, they call Verite to help reform their organizations to prevent human rights abuses. Companies generally jump at the chance to point out any miniscule improvement in their environmental responsibility.
Read More »Innovation Agents – Sasha Dichter, Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund
Sasha Dichter wants you to know that social impact investing is anything but a crock.
Read More »Reader Mail: September 2011
Readers respond to our story about the constant feeling of crisis that is entrepreneurship in Argentina, and others. Risky Business Our story about doing business in Argentina [" A Constant Feeling of Crisis ," June] garnered a mixed reaction from readers on Hacker News and Inc.com, many of whom are U.S. expats running businesses in South America
Read More »Better World Books Takes A Page From Toms Shoes’ "One For One" Playbook
The book recycler and reseller has already given away $10 million to help improve literacy. Now it's giving away a book every time you buy one. Better World Books , a bookseller that calls itself "the online bookstore with a soul," announced an initiative this week to donate a book to the company's non-profit literacy partners--Feed the Children and Books for Africa--every time a book is purchased on their website.
Read More »Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock
Over the last decade the world of do-gooding has seemingly been taken over by MBAs. Social entrepreneurship, a field encompassing both mission-driven businesses and entrepreneurial nonprofits, professes to bring the efficiency, rigor, and cold, hard metrics of business to the most important causes on the planet.
Read More »Will Climate Change Make Life Harder for Girls?
In many developing countries, teenage girls' days are filled with hard labor as they enter into an adulthood of second-class citizenship. Now, a study finds, climate change threatens to make girls' lives even harder. The report from the nonprofit Plan U.K., as well as the U.K.
Read More »Ten Things You Need To Know To Raise Capital For Your Nonprofit
Alice's tips on raising capital for your enterprise--and the best and worst funding experiences from her two decades of working with boards. For most nonprofit organizations, financial success depends on building a board of directors that is generous in helping to contribute and raise the "venture capital" to launch the enterprise, and strategic in working with the CEO to help establish and achieve a financially sustainable revenue model. It's nearly impossible for a CEO to maximize an organization's financial potential without a highly effective board
Read More »An Inside Look At B Lab’s Plan To Change Business
B Lab--a nonprofit that certifies sustainable businesses--is riding a wave of interest in social responsibility for corporations. Now it has plans to expand even wider as states around the country begin to give tax breaks to its companies
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