by Amy Seidman | Featured, Investment, SB, Video
Solving needs in the five categories of sustainability, companies end up running more efficient businesses–according to R. Paul Herman, CEO and founder of HIP Investor. Mapping the measures of sustainability to the financial statements, HIP has shown when a...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
My favorite sentence in Peter Dreier’s 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century is “No struggle for justice succeeds without organization.” Seasoned social entrepreneurs and practiced change agents are constantly organizing. Most visibly, societal...
by Shana Rappaport | Clean Tech, Consumer Brands, Sustainability, Thought Leadership, Verge
Can millennials and social networking really lead us to a sustainable future? One startup is betting its business model on “yes.” eEcosphere aims to help users discover, adopt and share actionable ideas to build a more sustainable lifestyle — providing personally...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Social entrepreneurs are regularly (albeit erroneously) revered and romanticized as pioneering visionaries – tenaciously overcoming groupthink, rallying followers to the cause and single-handedly building their social enterprises. The word superhero comes to...
by Amy Seidman | Impact, Socially Responsible, Sustainability, Verge, Video
Multi national companies have an effect, not just on the stock exchange, but on businesses globally and our ability to surmount the great issues we face today from the environment to the standard of living of over 1 billion poor people globally. Gil Friend talks about...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn, SoCap
Social change requires tenacity, strength of commitment and old-fashioned hard work. Bluntly, you may not be tough enough. If social and economic justice is your chosen career path, you can’t avoid hard work. Social change work demands rigor: rigorous thinking...