Categoria: social innovation
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Cooperativas de internet lutam por espaço
A Organização das Cooperativas Brasileiras (OCB) trava uma batalha legislativa para tentar aprovar uma lei que possibilite a pessoas físicas se agruparem em cooperativas de telecomunicações, principalmente de internet. Algumas iniciativas para legalizar o modelo foram derrubadas pelas regras atuais da Lei Geral das Telecomunicações (LGT). Agora, o desafio da OCB é adaptar a legislação…
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were the first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—and nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. In…
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Social Enterprise Is Not Social Change
Solving systemic social problems takes people, politics, and power—not more social entrepreneurship. Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship (SEE)—a business-inspired approach to solving social problems—has exploded across the United States and the world in the last decade. It has entrenched itself within a broad spectrum of fields, from economic development and urban planning to health…
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Social Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, and Innovation in China and the United States
Blaring news headlines about a developing trade war between the governments of the United States and China lie in sharp contrast to the emerging partnerships developing between philanthropists and social entrepreneurs from the two countries. As I learned while on a recent delegation from Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) to Beijing there…
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6 Successful Social Innovation Projects
Brands with a conscience not only attract better talent and woo discerning consumers, they also wind up building communities and boosting the bottom line. As they say, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Social innovations are new strategies, concepts and ideas that meet the social needs of different elements…
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No future of work without social innovation
Labour markets have undergone significant change over the past decade, driven by a series of structural shifts: Traditional business models are being challenged by a new economic environment and emerging on-demand economy; our supply chains are now global, resulting in more outsourcing, project-based and online work; rising individualism has changed people’s attitudes to work;…
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Launch of the 2018 European Social Innovation Competition
Win one of the three €50,000 prizes for innovations empowering young people On 20th March, the 2018 edition of the European Social Innovation Competition was launched in Paris. The competition, run by the European Commission, aims to foster and showcase social innovations, ideas and projects across Europe. Under the heading RE:THINK LOCAL, this year’s edition…
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Guggenheim Partners Accepting Proposals for Network for Social Innovation
NEW YORK, April 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Guggenheim Partners is now accepting applications for the Network for Social Innovation (NSI), the firm’s venture philanthropy program designed to identify and support the growth of visionary non-profit organizations tackling some of the most challenging issues of our time. Through the Network for Social Innovation, Guggenheim…
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