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Social Impact Roundup 11/4/2019
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7 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2019
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Why a Social Enterprise is Much More than a For-Profit Venture: This article discusses the concept of social entrepreneurship as it continues to evolve and become mainstream, and how the aim of a social entrepreneur is beyond just profit.https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/341238 National Philanthropic Trust Introduces Four Proprietary Impact Investment Options: What we learn from this article is that one of the biggest independent sponsors of donor-advised funds is now giving people an option to actually get a return on that money that's invested.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191022005242/en/National-Philanthropic-Trust-Introduces-Proprietary-Impact-Investment Businesses Need to be Mindful of Social Impact Going Forward: This article discusses the notion that businesses need to be mindful of social and environmental impact moving forward.https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/341070 We Need a New Capitalism: This article discusses how our current system has led to profound inequality and to fix it we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/benioff-salesforce-capitalism.html Nonprofit Quarterly: Hidden Cost of Social Impact Bonds:In this article we learn a little bit more about what some of the risks and hidden costs are of social impact bonds.https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-hidden-costs-of-social-impact-bonds/
Released:
Nov 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (23)
Social Impact Roundup 11/4/2019: We captured some great social impact headlines for this week’s roundup. We'll be covering why social enterprise is better than for-profit ventures, an impact investing twist for donor-advised funds, a new form of capitalism, and the hidden costs of social impact bonds. by The Science of Social Impact