The Academia Report on Social Business 2019 was published by Yunus and You, the YY Foundation, with the aim of promoting academic work on social business, particularly to inspire more universities to include social business in their curriculum, establish research...
Subscribe: SpotifyHousing affordability is at an all-time low. A growing percentage of working and middle class people are being pushed out of their homes and rental units and into poverty and homelessness. A recent documentary, Push, explores the housing crisis and...
“Who are cities for?” That’s the fundamental question – posed by Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing – that drives Push, an eye-opening documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten that had its North American premiere at Toronto’s...
Women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Yet less than five percent of small business lending – only about $1 in $23 – goes to women. CNote, an Oakland-based fintech firm, is looking to fix this disparity with the Wisdom Fund, a new...
Subscribe: SpotifyWhen it comes to saving the planet, one social entrepreneur has been fighting the good fight for over 18 years. Along the way, Tom Szaky founder of TerraCycle has established a formidable reputation for recycling the non-recyclable. Working in 20...