Can social enterprises deliver better results?

Can social enterprises deliver better results?

Earlier this year, richest men in the world numbers two and three developed a Giving Pledge that implored billionaires the world over to give at least half of their earnings to charity. Of the forty that are complying, richest man in the world #1 is noticeably absent....
Young entrepreneurs matter right now

Young entrepreneurs matter right now

In 2006, Statistics Canada forecast that one in five Canadian entrepreneurs would be retiring within the next five years. That timeline is knocking on our door now. What’s more, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) projects that 71% of business owners will...
Young entrepreneurs matter right now

Social enterprises worth watching

Last time, I wrote that social enterprise and entrepreneurship is a movement, not a model. I suggested that people could undertake various forms of action within its framework and still be tied to each other through the connective tissue of a common vision. It seems...
Young entrepreneurs matter right now

Social enterprise is a movement not a model

You don’t often expect to have conversations about social enterprise with strangers on the subway. So I was somewhat surprised when a passerby in his twenties pointed at me from across the underground hallway leading to the turnstiles. He smiled when he approached...

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