Beyond Business as Usual Blog
Resources
reSET Library
Organizations
Change.org
Social Enterprise Alliance
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e-180
E-180 is currently a Montreal-based blog on consensual education, social entrepreneurship and social media. Ultimately, E-180 will become a social enterprise, a matchmaking website where people can jumpstart their learning by finding and meeting great mentors. For free.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Social Edge
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.
Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
Net Impact
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world. We offer a portfolio of programs to educate, equip, and inspire more than 10,000 members to make a tangible difference in their universities, organizations, and communities.
The Interfaith Council for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
The ICCR's model is to not find an alternative to profit, but to share profit in a meaningful way - and to treat with dignity and respect - their employees, their community, their customers and their suppliers.
›› visit The Interfaith Council for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Videos
Geoff Mulgan: Investing in a better world
Social Enterprise: Meaning, Scope, Potential
Blogs
Kate Emery
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Publications
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Augmenting Relationship Marketing with a Stakeholder
How to run a Social Enterprise in 3 not so easy steps
It's not the share of Wallet Anymore
Social Enterprise - When Worlds Collide or the Best of Both by Reid & Riege
Social Entrepreneurs go mainstream
The Emergence of the Triple Bottom Line
The days of purely measuring business performance by financial result may well be numbered. In its place, discerning investors will look for something broader to measure an entity’s real contribution and performance. That something could be in the shape of the “triple bottom line”; an amalgam of financial results and an assessment of the social and environmental impacts of a business. Or, put another way: People, Planet and Profits.
When Faced with Layoffs One Hospital Uses Heart
Beth Israel workers show us that most people are NOT greedy me-me folks, but want to help everyone survive this mess!
Workers of the World Incorporate
Unions and Co-ops cooperate!
