Why Social Entrepreneurs Are So Burned Out

Can entrepreneurs help address the society’s biggest challenges — without burning out?

These are pressing questions. According to Deloitte, private businesses are increasingly expected to help solve the most challenging social problems of our times —

Trends In Food Packaging Drive Sustainable Business Mainstream

It’s hard to miss the growing conversation around single-use plastics in food packaging – you may have heard of The War on Straws, or seen reports on the Great

This Entrepreneur Got A Funder To Say: “Here’s $1 Million. Do Whatever You Want”

Over the years, I’ve interviewed countless entrepreneurs — and one thing I always hear is how difficult it is to raise money. Particularly if you’re a woman, the stats are dismal.

I recently helped produce 

Communication, tools, safety net all key to improving retirement outcomes

Reforms should be better communicated to workers in efforts to combat behavioral biases and inadequate financial knowledge that undermines participants’ retirement decisions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation said in its latest pensions outlook report. The OECD

Can Utilizing Behavioral Change Theory Boost Financial Wellness?

Even though individuals know what they should do about money, decisions can be deeply emotional and many times they have trouble overcoming resistance to act on those decisions. But a new white paper suggests that

Reported Lack of Knowledge Indicates Need for More Financial Wellness Programs

Financial wellness programs are popular and sought after but are rarely offered as an employer-sponsored benefit, according to Corporate Insight’s 2018 Employee Financial Wellness Survey. Of the 1,544 employees surveyed, a mere 221 (or 14%)

Housing could play the biggest role in ending child poverty

It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote, more than 50 years ago, “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.” Yet poverty continues, and quite often it’s children who feel the

After The Fall: Income Inequality and the Great Recession

If there’s any point of agreement amongst the many ten-year anniversary eulogies of the 2008 recession, it is that at some point the crisis ended. The nearly nine million jobs that were lost in the crisis are

Visualizing the Poverty Rate of Each U.S. State

How many people live below the poverty line in states across the country? Today’s interactive map comes to us from Overflow Solutions, and it visualizes the percentage of people living in poverty across the United States

Empowering Nigerian women through sustainable energy

Ensuring that women and girls have energy access is not just about women’s rights, it’s a fundamental human rights issue. A number of quantitative and qualitative studies have shown that clean energy access is linked

Slaying The Gasoline Car

Envision Energy will produce batteries for $100 per kilowatt hour by 2020, the Shanghai company's founder and CEO said at Stanford University, predicting the price will drop to $50 only five years later and end the reign of the

The Rise of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Water, food, and energy are the most basic human needs and share a strong connection. Water is used to grow crops, drive hydropower generation, cool down thermoelectric power plants (generally fueled by coal, natural gas,

New Buzz about a Malaria Prevention Drug

Most malaria drugs are designed to reduce symptoms after infection. They work by blocking replication of the disease-causing parasites in human blood, but they don’t prevent infection or transmission via mosquitoes. What’s worse, the malaria

The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat.

Just in time for the holidays, new research explores our tendency to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over – and how we justify it by convincing ourselves that it’s

You just can’t afford to be sick

Healthcare in India is unaffordable for most people. However, the wheels of health financing are beginning to turn, but slowly, says PT Jyothi Datta. Barely does Zaheera Begum* begin to recount her experience in getting

Where next for ESG? A look at what lies ahead

If ESG tickets are now on sale at the box office, it’s the ‘E’ that’s got the main billing. Indeed, the transition to a low-carbon economy will dominate the sustainable investing story for some time

This crowdfunding campaign lets you give capital to companies changing the world

The nonprofit impact investing fund Acumen just launched its first crowdfunding campaign. Dubbed #OneGreatIdea, the effort seeks to collectively raise at least $100,000 from Giving Tuesday donors who are interested in building companies that generate both social and

Unlocking Endowments: Foundations Are Stepping Up Impact Investing

Ten years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term “impact investing,” it has become a $250 billion market and an expanding global movement. Today, foundations across the U.S. and globally are increasingly looking to use their endowments

Workers in ESOPs Have Double the Retirement Savings

S Corporations are likely to be fully employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) owned, and S Corporation ESOPs, in particular, tend to prepare workers much better for retirement than other types of workplace retirement savings plans,

Callahan & Associates announces 100 percent employee-ownership model

After more than 30 years of contributing to the credit union movement, Callahan & Associates announces a new ownership model designed to allow the firm to continue to help credit unions build member value. By

Have You Thought About Your Business Succession Strategy?

Owners often wait until it's too late to consider various options, at which time the only answer might be selling the business to a third party, perhaps a .competitor or a private equity group. For

Oxford Conference on Business and Poverty

Welcome to the second annual Oxford Business Fights Poverty Conference. As you view this summary of the conference you will read from a series of topics like Responsible Leadership, Honoring Entrepreneurs, Employee Ownership, Mentoring, Crowdsourcing & Addressing Poverty. Please

The Greatest Givers: Meet America’s Top Philanthropists

Actions speak louder than words: While it may be easy to make promises, true generosity involves actually giving away the greenbacks. To discover who doled out the most money in 2017, Forbes partnered with Boca

How The Rich View The Poor

More than four years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement divided the country into percentages, calling the 99 percent out against the 1 percent. A voice was raised from Zucotti Park in New York City demanding reform