Two separate discussions this week reflected a clear evolution in thinking around how public agencies can and should participate in the social innovation process. The panel discussions in New York and Washington, DC brought together over 100 investors, policy-makers, social entrepreneurs and intermediaries to celebrate the launch of the recently ...
I talked about the context for social investment in my earlier blog. I also shared some of our experiences and considerations when carrying out a social enterprise survey in Turkey earlier this year. You may probably by now all be curious to learn what we found.
Our survey questionnaire covered the ...
Around the globe, efforts to address significant, long-term societal concerns – such as economic development in marginalized communities, or access to healthcare, education, and financial services – have increasingly included the emerging fields of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The goal of these efforts is to creatively apply tools from ...
The Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Summit, held last week in Lima, Peru, was a breakthrough moment.
As the first international, ministerial-level convening focused on the role of government in enabling and growing social enterprise, it ushered in a new era of public innovation.
There is broad agreement, in Latin America and beyond, ...
As introduced in our first blog, we recently initiated a research project entitled “Mapping the Market: Conditions and Potential for Impact Investing Policies in Morocco” with the overall objective of contributing to the building of a market place for impact investing in this North African country.
In order to analyze the ...