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Insightful Reports

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Myths and Realities of Child Nutrition

This report by Stuart Gillespie of the International Food Policy Research Institute gathers evidence about a new research by Arvind Panagaria, who is of the opinion that the casually used statement of child malnutrition being worse in India than in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa with […]

September 23, 2013

WK Kellogg Foundation seeks US$100 million of social impact through investments

WK Kellogg Foundation is the next non-profit to go the impact investment way, to increase impact. While its previous operations were centred on families, children, education and health in the USA, a new grant rolled out by the foundation (called the “Mission Driven Investing”) will support credible, for-profit businesses that […]

September 23, 2013

Corporate social enterprise needs time and resources

Corporate social enterprises are those that are driven by commercial entities like corporates which use their business and intellectual skills not to achieve a profit, but to extract social and environmental bottom lines. These initiatives cannot strictly be classified under the category of CSR. With the constraint of resources, CSE […]

September 23, 2013

India: NGOs start raising money in corporate style

A new trend has been noticed in NGOs in India: companies are investing their mandatory 2% of average profits in the last three years, in NGOs which are transparent in their mode of work, and ensure social impact, despite high factors of risk involved. Read more here.

September 23, 2013

Social innovation leads the way in market innovation

According to this article, social enterprises often surge ahead of their market peers in addressing a need while also being socially relevant, much like being the first to start a fashion which then becomes a vogue. Read more here.

September 23, 2013

UK: A lot of people want to start social businesses

According to the latest RBS Enterprise Tracker Report, 38% of the UK population not already self-employed would like to start a business. 19% of them would like to start a social business. However, high demand does not translate into easy supply, as a number of challenges prevent such start-ups from […]

September 23, 2013

Place based innovation

A number of products meant for populations in the low income countries do not find an audience with them, despite having obvious benefits. This year’s SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) conference in San Francisco labelled the solution to this issue as ‘Place based innovation’. This form of innovation takes into account […]

September 23, 2013

How to start a social enterprise on a shoestring budget

This list of to-do’s comes from the Londoner who started the Living Furniture Project, a social enterprise which employs homeless Londoners to make furniture from discarded material. Read it here.

September 23, 2013

How the impact investment sector affects philanthropy

According to this article, impact investment can hurt the charity sector when investors choose to invest and then expect returns instead of simply pumping charity into foundations. Conversely, impact investment can also boost the ability of charities to achieve their objectives, at lower costs to them. The conclusion is that […]