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Theory of Change: A Collaborative Tool?
Your Theory of Change can simply be an in-house tool, or an in-sector methodology that you can use collaboratively to avoid needless duplication of effort. Join Charles "Hipbone" Cameron as we discuss how to get greater impact at the level of the issue.

Mobile Networks for Social Entrepreneurs
Distributing market information to farmers, offering banking services to the unbanked, improving access to quality healthcare or simply providing a sense of community: Vodafone’s R&D Stephen Wolak looks into real-world mobile solutions for social entrepreneurs.

Technology and Social Innovations
Ashoka’s Rosa Wang just got back from Hyderabad where she attended Tech4Society. Join her in a conversation about the challenges and successes of technological innovation to serve the poor.

The Personal Bottom Line
Where do you fit on a three-axis graph with X=social, Y= financial and Z=personal? SVT Group’s Sara Olsen wonders what your personal bottom line looks like.

Death by Definitions
Social investment, mission-related investment, or impact investing? Rod Schwartz answers: "Let’s spend our time growing the sector and leave it to future generations to decide what to call what we did." What do you think?

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.

Read our Blogs

Africa's Moment
Magogodi Makhene spotlights African social innovation

Alvin's Guide to Good Business
Financial expert Alvin Hall visits social entrepreneurs

Civic Entrepreneurship
Stephen Goldsmith on igniting community networks

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

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