Resource Library: Articles
The resource library offers articles, publications, and reports that focus on the field of social enterprise published by GBF and other organizations.
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Job Sourcing Business Reduces Poverty by Building Careers (GBF Fall 2009 Newsletter)
Stories Don't Lie, but Numbers Tell the Truth (GBF Fall 2009 Newsletter)
Both articles, written by Sean Killian, an MBA/MS student at the University of Michigan, highlight the impact LabourNet, social enterprise that sources jobs and offers training and benefits to informal workers in India, has on its workers. The first article is a profile of LabourNet registered worker, Clement Peroli. The second is an overview of how GBF is helping LabourNet measure its impact through client surveys.
GBF's University Initiatives(GBF Fall 2009 Newsletter)
GBF works with several leading universities throughout the year to offer students the opportunity to obtain field experience in the social enterprise sector. In this article, one of the participating students, Aleksander Rasevski, tells his story.
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GBF presents an overview of approaches to impact measurement by a growing number of researchers, investors, practitioners, enterpreneurs, and donors.
GBF presents an overview of approaches to impact measurement by a growing number of researchers, investors, practitioners, enterpreneurs, and donors.
Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) Project Overview (Certified Corporaton, Deloitte, The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen Fund, PricewaterHouse Coopers)
Representatives of the IRIS initiative give a peek "under the hood" of the taxonomy and technology tools that are in development for measuring and reporting social and environmental performance.
Emerging Markets, Emerging Models (Monitor Group, March 2009)
This report investigates market-based solutions as a means to help those residing at the base of the global income pyramid.
University of Pennsylvania students join GBF/SELFINA in Tanzania (The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 2009)
See GBF's university initiatives, as four Penn students ventured to Tanzania to evaluate SELFINA's poverty levels and increase their standard of living.
See GBF's university initiatives, as four Penn students ventured to Tanzania to evaluate SELFINA's poverty levels and increase their standard of living.
Investing for Social and Environmental Impact (Monitor Group, January 2009)
The impact investors behind this report want to move beyond "socailly responsible investment" and try to answer the question of whether impact investing will remain a small, disorganized, underleveraged niche for years or even decades to come--or whether leaders will converge to address pressing social and environmental challenges.
Kash Rangan, GBF Advisory Board Member (HBS Alumni Bulletin, June 2008)
A Q&A with Kash Rangan, GBF advisory board member, co-founder of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, and Director of Research.
A Q&A with Kash Rangan, GBF advisory board member, co-founder of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, and Director of Research.
Millennium Methods (Innovations Journal, MIT Press, Summer 2008)
This journal includes a lead essay of "Growing Out of Poverty" as well as individual case studies and analysis pieces all about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
This journal includes a lead essay of "Growing Out of Poverty" as well as individual case studies and analysis pieces all about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
Catalog of Approaches for Impact Measurement (Social Venture Technology Group, May 2008)
Impact Measurement Approaches: Recommendations to Impact Investors (Social Venture Technology Group, April 2008)
In these studies, researchers conducted surveys of impact investors to discover what they want to see as a result of impact measurement, and conducted in-depth interviews with entities that have developed and implemented approaches to measure impact.
The 2008 Reader on Private Sector Development: Measuring and Reporting Results (International Training Centre)
This reader's objective is to argue that debates about rigor in methodologies have distracted from the more important institutional and human barriers to measuring results, and hopes to succeed in leading to greater measurement and reporting of results in the results.
MicroSave: Asset Financing for Micro-& Small Businesses in Tanzania and Uganda (MicroSave research paper)
Examines how the poor and small businesses are financing the acquisition of small assets. This study seeks to examine the needs of the poor for financing small assets and to start developing an overview of the types of leasing products that might meet these needs.
Examines how the poor and small businesses are financing the acquisition of small assets. This study seeks to examine the needs of the poor for financing small assets and to start developing an overview of the types of leasing products that might meet these needs.
