Tag Archives | Measuring Social Impact

Why I Lie About What I Do and Why It Matters for Social Entrepreneurs

By on April 29, 2013 in Building a Social Venture, Fundraising, Non-Profit Management, Outcome Evaluation

Do you know the Google search algorithm? You probably have a basic idea. If you know anything about computers and the Internet, you might have a pretty good idea. But the short answer is no, because the Google search algorithm might as well be written on a little piece of paper and locked in a [...]

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Attempting Sustainability

By on February 22, 2013 in Community Building, Impact Assessment, Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

You’ve heard the term “sustainability,” but have you thought about it outside of the environmental context? There are many ways in which social change programs can be unsustainable. Programs can be designed without a community’s real capacity, interest, or needs in mind. They can provide expensive and unfamiliar tools that community members don’t know how [...]

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Defining “Social Entrepreneurship”

By on December 7, 2012 in Featured, Social Entrepreneurship

“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit … then the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”  — Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company (1863 – 1947) One of my co-contributors, Matthew [...]

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Who (doesn’t) run the world? Girls.

By on November 28, 2012 in Featured, Women's Empowerment

Only 20% of political leaders in the world are women. Women leaders are under-represented in every country, from Nepal, where my organization works, to the United States, where despite recent gains, only 20% of Congress is female. In 2010, I co-founded Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Kathmandu, Nepal, because I [...]

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1 Thing Silicon Valley Can’t Teach Social Entrepreneurs

By on November 26, 2012 in Featured, Social Entrepreneurship

There has been a really popular article floating around on my twitter feed called “6 Things Silicon Valley Can Teach Social Entrepreneurs”. After reading it, I was like: “Awesome!” I liked it. But then I realized one major component was left out – a big thing, the one thing that Silicon Valley definitely cannot teach Social [...]

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