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The Fetishization of Metrics
If the value of social entrepreneurship is not reducible to simple quantitative terms, how do we define and capture the impact we are having? Join Charles (Hipbone) Cameron in the conversation.

Too Small to Fail: Debt Relief for Social Entrepreneurs
Peter Deitz wonders how we can we build debt relief into the social entrepreneurship eco-system to ensure the growth and development of world-changing innovations, and the well-being of the social entrepreneurs behind them.

Protecting Your Mission: The best legal structure
Besides standard non-profits and for-profit entities, what legal tools and structures are available to social entrepreneurs to protect their mission? Criterion Ventures’ Joy Anderson and Elizabeth McCance help you make the right decisions.

Invest in Me, Take my Equity
Three social entrepreneurs (Kjerstin Erickson, Jon Gosier and Saul Garlick) are offering equity in their life’s earnings for an infusion of cash today. Should you invest in their future? Or follow their example?

Hybrid Models: The Social and Commercial Two-Step
Are hybrids really innovative structures or simply stopgap measures? Join Mumbai-based Lindsay Clinton in the conversation.

Is a "Social Economy" really possible?
Where are the big success stories, the social sector equivalents of Google or Facebook? Will the funding continue to flow to unsustainable, though eminently worthy, social enterprises? Join Rod Schwartz in a provocative conversation.

Read our Blogs

Africa's Moment
Magogodi Makhene spotlights African social Innovation

Civic Entrepreneurship
Stephen Goldsmith on igniting community networks

A Clearly Social Economy
Rodney Schwartz is agitating for a social economy

Creating Confusion
Anand Shah thinks beyond the edge

Dr. O on Funding
Patrick O'Heffernan on Funding

The Edge
They live on The Edge

Forging Ahead
Kjerstin Erickson helps African refugees build better lives

Generating blueEnergy
Mathias Craig is developing sustainable energy solutions

Global X
How social entrepreneurs change the world, one story at a time

I on Poverty
Jonathan Lewis on poverty alleviation

Kiva Chronicles
Kiva Fellows are changing the world, one loan at a time

The Learning Curve
From Delhi to Harvard to Rio, Dhaval Chadha is starting early

Let There D.light
Sam Goldman is building a new source of light

Running to Outpace Poverty
Lara Vogel gets down to business (school)

Samasourcing
Leila Chirayath Janah sources technology entrepreneurs

SVT On Impact
SVT's Sara Olsen and Brett Galimidi discuss impact management

Talking Trash
BoPtimist Parag Gupta explores how one man’s trash is another man’s treasure