SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NEWS AND DISCUSSION

A new report prepared by NESsT for The Rockefeller Foundation explains the current condition of impact enterprises in the emerging markets of Latin America and Central Europe, and suggests ways to improve the situation.

Social entrepreneurs in Latin America came together last year to discuss what it would take to foster social enterprises in the region.  After all, social enterprises are playing a significant role in economic development and social and environmental welfare.  The goal was to focus on what would allow social enterprises to flourish and increase their [...]

After graduating from Brown University, Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie gave their parents “the speech” that many parents of up-and-coming social entrepreneurs would hear.  The speech goes something like this: “I hope to make the world a better place, I hope to change the world, I am about to do something that I can’t fully [...]

To carve a path out of poverty, farmers in Latin America were drawn into cultivating coca plants.  As the ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America reports, it was an opportunity to improve their well-being, since international demand for cocaine was growing and farmers had no access to credit or markets for traditional agriculture products.  In the [...]