- September 29, 2011 • 5:30 am PDT
- + comments
- See original
- prevnext
Learn more about Joy and how social enterprise is changing her community in this award-winning essay.
Photo by Esther Havens
Learn more about Joy and how social enterprise is changing her community in this award-winning essay.

1
Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
2
Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
3
Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
4
TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
5
Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Lessons in scaling social enterprise and bringing big business into the impact economy that matter in India and around the globe.
“It took many years to get to the point where black people in South Africa accepted that organic was different and valuable."

Missed the fanfare around last month's G20 Summit in Seoul? Another gathering of world leaders, another squandered opportunity. Right? Maybe not.

While entrepreneurs drive social enterprise, there’s a flood of workers competing for impact jobs.
Fast Company names its 10 "social enterprises of the year" in its new issue. Among the honorees are Choose GOOD partner The Acumen Fund and...

This moment in history may be a perfect storm for the rapid rise of social enterprise.

Learn more about how social enterprises are growing in the U.S., who's behind them, and what the future might look like for impact investing.

Is India better at producing social entrepreneurs than other countries? The recent track record supports the claim. Here are a few reason why.

Discover Biztopia, a new interactive microsite, showcasing social enterprises and the people behind them.

When nonprofit travel site Couchsurfing went private, members complained, but the move offers the organization (and its founders) key advantages.

Sexy branding shouldn't have to cost a fortune, according to a new online creative agency called Brands For The People

A revamped directory shows market-based solutions to poverty around the world. India and Kenya are hotbeds of social enterprise innovation.

B Corporations change the way we combine business and social impact in the U.S. Now they're popping up all over the world, from Brazil to Korea.

As hipsters go crazy to music this weekend, thousands of immigrant families are suffering just down the road.

Philanthropist Kevin Starr demands great ideas, scalability, and eight word mission statements. It's all part of a Design for Impact approach.

In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.
The NFL sends all the loser merchandise from the big game to a relief organization that works mainly in Africa. On one hand, it seems like a noble...

Though several dozen of their countrymen were not as lucky, these two New Zealanders are unscathed in the wake of a giant earthquake.
Yann Gross's "Kintintale Skates," offers a glimpse at the first skate park in East Africa. Located in the a working class suburb of Kampala,...
Last year, we ran a Picture Show of Yann Gross's photographs of Uganda's only skate park. If you liked that, you should check out this trailer...