Paul Bloom’s latest book, Scaling Your Social Venture, provides a toolkit of lessons and best practices for scaling social entrepreneurship initiatives. In a well laid out, practical voice, Bloom introduces the SCALERS model, which stresses that successful scaling requires organizational strength in seven areas:
Impact investing has gained its foothold following an historic period of upheaval in the capital markets. In fact, the financial crisis of 2008 precipitated the largest impact investments of all time. Just like pioneering impact investors, governments around the world recognized the need and opportunity to go beyond donations in their scramble to protect jobs and social stability by shoring up private companies. They invested tens of billions in loans, equity investments, and guarantees, the basic tools of the impact investors that we describe extensively in this book. And the forces that set off the first ripples of the impact investing movement continue to grow:
Feeding the hungry, tacking the food crisis, is one of the world’s most glaring challenges. It seems everywhere you look food products are veering precariously off the affordability and availability scales, with malnutrition, instability, food riots and other related effects the results. Endless Appetites is an intricate and richly woven exploration into the multi-faceted issue of food security from award winning commodities reporter Alan Bjerga.
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done.
Pretty much anyone who has even peripheral involvement with the business world has heard of Peter F. Drucker, the "father of modern management." In his lifetime (1909-2005) he published 39 books and served as a consultant to many of the biggest companies in the world, including GE, IBM, and Coca-Cola, to name a few. But despite his eminence, he never forgot the importance of the worker and the ability of the individual to effect change.
Feeding the hungry, tacking the food crisis, is one of the world’s most glaring challenges. It seems everywhere you look food products are veering precariously off the affordability and availability scales, with malnutrition, instability, food riots and other related effects the results. 
