social entrepreneur

The doer and the payer: A simple approach to scale

September 8, 2015 | by Allison Hunt | Feature, Fundraising

By Kevin Starr and Laura Hattendorf, Mulago Foundation, Stanford Social Innovation Review At the Mulago Foundation, we obsess on the notion of social impact that goes to scale. Since we’re usually willing to pay for lunch, people often come to talk about “going to scale” and “scaling up our work.” Most of the time, the […]

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A social entrepreneur transforms nonprofit to profit-making

June 16, 2015 | by Allison Hunt | Feature, Sustainability

By Esha Chhabra, contributor, The New York Times | In 2013, The New York Times published a case study about a social entrepreneur, Saul Garlick, discussing what kind of legal structure would be best for his enterprise, ThinkImpact, which encourages entrepreneurship in third-world communities. He fundamentally had three options: continue as a nonprofit, go commercial, […]

Tags: hybrid, social entrepreneur, ThinkImpact, third-world communities