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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs. Note: This post is adapted from my remarks at Babson College’s 2014 Lewis Institute Social Innovator Awards.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. This innovation has impact. Conclusion? So what should mothers2mothers' leaders do?

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

.” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.