Innovative Social Business

Enjoy these 9 resources related to innovation and social entrepreneurship!

This article gives examples of how to capture the value of impact investing for entrepreneurs that serve the poor, yet still find it difficult to raise capital, particularly at the early stages of their company’s growth:

Closing the Pioneer Gap - PDF Attached

How the Delta Model Helps Impact Investors Fund Social Enterprises:

Delta Model Helps Impact Investors Fund Social Enterprises - PDF Attached

This article explains the design thinking model, which allows nonprofits to ideate the best solution to the problems faced by their beneficiaries:

Design Thinking for Social Innovation_SSIR_2010 - PDF Attached

Case study on how the design thinking process was used in human-centered design:

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves_IDEO_Final Deliverable Tanzania - PDF Attached

In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they attempt to integrate traditionally separate organizational models:

In Search of the Hybrid Ideal - PDF Attached

Summary of key takeaways from Eric Ries' The Lean Startup:

Lessons from The Lean Startup - PDF Attached

How to use disrupted systems from COVID to create opportunities for inclusive business:

Not just “business as usual” Humanizing supply chains amid the pandemic - PDF Attached

Provides tools to assess ideas for a social venture:

Recognizing Social Opportunities - PDF Attached

This articles outlines the pros and cons of 501(c)(3) status, using Kiva as a case study:

The Profit in Nonprofit - PDF Attached

Plus, read "Tackling Heropreneurship" by social infrapreneur Daniela Papi-Thornton for a critique / call to action within the social business trend...

Tackling Heropreneurship - Stanford Social Innovation Review - PDF Attached