How to find your passion idea and knowing what you want
Starting a social enterprise based on an idea is not always easy. It takes courage and self reflection to fine tune what it is we truly want [...]
5 lessons for social entrepreneurs on how to change the system
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship manages the largest network of late-stage social entrepreneurs in the world. Yet when you talk to most entrepreneurs in our community, they describe their impact as a “drop in the ocean”. They say things such as: “I’m not even 5% of the way to where I want to be”. For a field long obsessed by the holy grail of organizational scale, the social entrepreneurship sector is coming to terms with the limits of incremental growth. The needs are just too large and too urgent, and the models for scaling that we have developed remain too narrow and take too long. Conventional scaling models borrowed from the private sector, such as branch replication and social franchising, seem woefully inadequate to meet the size of the need. […]
Should you “internationalise” your social enterprise?
The pioneer Post recently published an interesting article on the internationalisation of social enterprises. Here is a short excerpt and lin to the full article: Social entrepreneurs are great at tackling locally-rooted problems – but they may be overlooking opportunities to grow and develop if they’re not considering overseas markets. Research suggests much more support is needed to help them get there. […]
Vaikuttavuuden bootcamp- ohjelma 2019 (Impact bootcamp for Finnish social enterprises)
Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra organizes impact bootcamps for Finnish social enterprises during spring 2019. Bootcamps are a continuation program for previous year's impact accelerators. The programs consists [...]
3 business model options for an impact start-up, explained
You have an idea for an impact business, but don't quite know how to take it forward? CauseArtist has compiled a nice article that explains, with examples, how [...]
“Design thinking instrument set” – a new way for generating ideas
New challenges require new ways of thinking. Old business and entrepreneurship text-book examples might not be relevant anymore and, what is more, they are not enough to [...]