Frontiers in Social Innovation

The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems

432 pages

English language

Published 2022 by Harvard Business Review Press.

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978-1-64782-141-8
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Social innovation is the process of developing and deploying effective solutions to challenging and systemic social and environmental issues in support of social progress. Over the past twenty years, mission-driven for-profit companies, as well as newer organizational forms (such as benefit corporations and companies certified as B Corporations), have emerged as powerful drivers of social change. In tandem with the diversification of organizational forms, impact investing funds — as well as traditional sources of money such as venture capital — have helped fuel the social innovation engine. Further, nonprofits have begun to explore more creative earned revenue-based business models. The field has become more disciplined, centering on three core concepts: theory of change, impact measurement, and design thinking. But important questions have remained and new ones have emerged that social enterprises, impact investors, philanthropists and foundations, and nonprofit and government leaders will be forced to grapple with.

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  • Economics