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Meaning and Money Intersect at Social Capital Markets Conference

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Women Funding Women Opens the Door to Responsible Investing

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The B Corps that Make Social Impact a Priority Without Consumer Pressure

B Labs uses hard data to assess impact, rewarding results, not marketing. That's why so many B-2-B firms made the list.

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Pay for Success: How a New Kind of Bond Could Save Taxpayer Money and Improve Social Services

The White House has big plans for a new idea to funnel private money into social work.

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Social Impact Investing: It's Not Wall Street as Usual

Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson explain how everyone—even you!—can make the future of finance more ethical through impact investing.

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The Benefit Corporation: Can the Future of Business Be About More Than Making a Buck? The National March of the Benefit Corporation Continues, Now Protecting Ben and Jerry's Backyard from Future Sellouts

New laws take effect in Vermont and Virginia today that protect sustainable businesses from the pressure to turn a profit at all costs.

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As Microfinance Struggles, Simple "Guarantees" Keep the System WorkingAs Microfinance Struggles, Simple "Guarantees" Keep the System Working "As Microfinance Struggles, Simple "Guarantees" Bring Hope"

Microfinance is going through a tough time right now. But the laziest form of financial support may be just the tool the fund the most important work.

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Eight Word Mission Statements and Other Ways the Mulago Foundation Obsesses over Social Impact Measurement How to Do Good and Prove It: Integrate Social Impact in Your Nonprofit's DNA

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

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BOOK: Five Strategies for Social Innovation by Jason Saul

Five strategies to help companies switch from traditional do-good strategies like philanthropy to creating real profit while solving social problems.

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Can the U.K.'s Social Impact Bonds Work in the United States?

A new plan harnesses profit incentive to solve social problems. If it works, it could scale big enough to change government programs everywhere.

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Meet the Social Impact Bond

A new way to pay for social innovations launches in the U.K. The first Social Impact Bond will pay to fight recidivism with money from charity...

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