Shortly after Peter Wahome’s family moved from central Kenya to the densely populated Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, he ventured into the downtown core. There, this young teenager literally hatched a scheme that altered the course of his life and, ultimately,...
Canada has a rich history of social enterprise, especially seen through the lens of Quebec’s social economy or the broader community economic development movement. Less well developed is a nationally scaled social enterprise and social finance movement, which has not...
Interest in social innovation is growing. It needs to. Our societies are facing some of the greatest challenges of our time: increasing inequality, rising poverty rates, the instability of the economy, climate change, and a plethora of other issues. At the same time,...
This past month social entrepreneurs gathered at the Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) Summit 2014 in Nashville, Tenn., and enjoyed content-rich workshops, engaging pitches from social entrepreneurs, excellent Southern cuisine and music from some of Nashville’s...
The Michigan Social Entrepreneurship Challenge gives entrepreneurs in the state an opportunity to make a difference Michigan Corps’ motto is a call to action that invokes the famous line President John F. Kennedy delivered in his 1961 inaugural...
