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Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
Book by Muhammad Yunus. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. Creating a World Without Poverty could easily have been a retrospective. After all, its author has plenty to reflect upon. Instead, the book is unmistakably forward-looking. This book presents a compelling vision for the future of capitalism. It envisions a market where social businesses emerge to address social issues. Muhammad Yunus could have rested on his laurels when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Issue 4: Spring 2009, Social Enterprise, Social Investment
Tagged book, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, global poverty, Grameen Bank, Leadership, microcredit, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, social business, Social Innovation, Social Investment
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Financial Inclusion, Market Failures and New Markets: Possibilities for Community Development Finance Institutions in Australia
by Ingrid Burkett and Belinda Drew, A Foresters Community Finance Occasional Paper; October 2008. Foresters Community Finance of Queensland argues that the lack of access to affordable capital is the major challenge to the growth of the fourth sector in Australia. In this report, authors Burkett and Drew broaden the traditional definition of financial exclusion in Australia to include not just individuals and families but also groups and organisations such as civil society organisations, social … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 4: Spring 2009
Tagged affordable housing, Australia, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Foresters Community Finance, fourth sector, job creation, marketplace, microfinance, Public Policy, small business development, social business, Social Enterprise, social inclusion, Social Investment
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Financing Civil Society: A practitioner’s view of the UK social investment market
by Louisa Mitchell, John Kingston, and Emilie Goodall, Venturesome; September 2008. This article is essential reading for those seeking to better understand the emerging social investment marketplace. In a nutshell, social investment aims to achieve both social and financial returns. Laden with case studies from the UK, the authors argue that social impact organisations are most effective when they strategically target social investors instead of becoming caught in the vicious cycle of short-term fundraising. Mitchell, … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 1: Spring 2008
Tagged fundraising, social business, Social Enterprise, Social Investment, social marketplace
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