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...event, entitled "Free Trade: Prosperity for all or Race to the Bottom?" brought together frequent opponents on the topic--Ira S. Shapiro, a chief U.S. trade negotiator, and Lori M. Wallach, chief counsel for the nonprofit organization Global Trade Watch--to talk more in-depth about an issue that has made international headlines in recent months...
...deftly jumped snowdrifts in a suit and heels of my own; I was on my way to a conference on "social enterprise." We discussed how to infuse a community with the resources necessary for growth, how to build sustainable partnerships, how to merge expertise from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors to build more effective programs. I was particularly struck by a call to action delivered by Andrea Silbert, director of the Center for Women and Enterprise. She asked us if we were idealists--did we believe in the ability to achieve social change...
Baggio is making a huge difference to Brazil's future, one kid at a time. It would not have been possible without a jump start by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a nonprofit international venture-capital foundation based in Arlington, Va. Ashoka has provided financial and professional backing for more than 1,000 social entrepreneurs in 34 countries who, like Baggio, are using business techniques and expertise to help people help themselves. A three-year stipend from Ashoka and its global fellowship of executives, mentors and consultants enabled Baggio to enlarge CDI beyond Rio. He hopes someday to enlarge...
...pressures blur the boundaries between the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds, a new breed of do-gooder is emerging, one that uses techniques and tools honed in the workplace to tackle social problems. In most cases, they start small. But taken together, they are changing the way nonprofit enterprises are conceived and run and bringing a new dynamism and drive to the business of doing good...
...dual bottom line was the challenge for Lisa Schorr when she signed on with Pine Street Inn as director of business-enterprise development. PSI, New England's largest nonprofit for the homeless, provides shelters and services for 11,000 people a day, many of them considered hard-core unemployable. A program that offered job training and supplied used clothing to the homeless had inadequate funding. Schorr, who had just received her M.B.A. from Harvard, came up with a plan to expand PSI's work and make it financially self-sufficient. "The idea," she says, "was to kill two birds with...