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Spreading (and Sustaining) Innovation
Spreading and Sustaining Innovation - Is it Time to Design “A New Normal”? In the middle of writing my book, after analyzing the information I had gathered from the 18 Ashoka Fellows I interviewed, I...
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Smooth Transitions in Turbulent Times
We live in times of very rapid change, and under threat of even more of the same: Whether it's a matter of epidemics and increasing antibiotic resistance, of the failure of education to prepare us for...
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Jugaad Innovation
R&D engineers at Whirlpool and Samsung are busily developing next-generation appliances—like a high-tech fridge that can text you if you run out of milk. These engineers ask themselves: “What if a...
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Can we Compete with Business?
When I visited Afghanistan for the first time in 2003 with the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council (a public/private partnership formed by the State Department to implement economic activities for Afghan...
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Transitions & Reinventions
The end of an era, time for a change – we live in extraordinarily interesting times, and it's a global opportunity. Who knows what will come next? One thing I'm pretty sure of: imagination will have a...
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Legal Form Strategies
One of the ways that social entrepreneurs innovate is by adapting existing business models and practices to socially-oriented outcomes. This has resulted in a variety of for-profit, nonprofit, and...
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Mergers in Social Ventures
As a college student in 2005 I co-founded the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET). Five years later, in November 2010, our organization merged with the Save Darfur Coalition, and we will soon begin...
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Zeitgeist: Transitions and Reinventions
I'm getting that old "something is happening here. but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?" feeling all over again. Today we have different names for it --we speak of the "emergent...
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Hiring for Good
Getting the Right People on the Bus What does the ideal team look like? It depends on who you are. Folks who are chatty will seek colleagues they can talk to. Others who like a silent workspace will...
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Mergers in Social Entreprises
In July of this year, I published a post on the ClearlySo Social Business Blog regarding the merger in the UK between Charity Bank and Investing for Good. The management teams were remarkable in that...
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New Education for New Leaders
Transforming the education system to break the barrier Oftentimes the challenges of the world – poverty, disease, and environmental degradation among others – are put in sharp contrast to the...
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Can Social Enterprises be Too Commercial?
“Oh that’d be a bit corporate, don’t you think?” This I was recently told by a social entrepreneur, following a suggestion I thought would improve their performance. It was not just the reply I found...
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Assess Risk, Insurance, Contingency Planning
Back in May of last year, during another Social Edge event called Taking Risks, Jo Davidson wrote: "We take risks not because we want to but because we have to."Hoping to change society isn't a...
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How to Build a Board
Since becoming the Executive Director of the Darfur Stoves Project nine months ago, I have come to understand just how crucial a role the Board of Directors plays in a nonprofit’s success. Board...
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Legal issues for social entrepreneurs
Is proliferation of legal sites for social entrepreneurs a good thing? And how do you select a pro-bono lawyer? This week Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation launches a new legal resource for the U.S....
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It doesn't take an MBA - or does it?
What exactly is a social enterprise? Is it a business? Is it a business, plus? Or is it something else entirely, something new, perhaps even something not yet defined? The question we're looking at...
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Government: Social Investment Catalyst or Market Disrupter
At ClearlySo we think and write a great deal about the social economy and the best way to accelerate its development. Our travels take us around the world looking for the most useful models and drawing...
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Structuring Collaboration
Mergers, Partnerships and New Business Models This week in Oxford, you may be participating in the Skoll World Forum, and attend the session on "Structuring Collaboration: Mergers, Partnerships and...
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Climbing The Green Ladder: The Power of Partnerships
There is no one route to sustainability and, as the old adage says, two heads (or three, four or five) are better than one.Many businesses and individuals within them are making progress in...
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Gen-Y: The Social Innovation Generation
My generation doesn’t want to “paint a wall” or “pile bricks” in the developing world. Generation Y wants to do more. Generation Y’s thirst is to create something lasting that works – sustainable...
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