Here’s your Daily Brief for December 9th: Women at the BoP: what does it mean when your money belongs to you? (via Perspective 2.0) – Ownership is a critical step toward empowerment at the bottom of the pyramid. Advances in technologies, in this case biometric ID cards, will be the future of solving this problem. [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for November 17th: The School for Social Entrepreneurs: Scaling social entrepreneurship (or why many molehills make a mountain) – Many people are talking about “scale” these days – as it pertains to their individual enterprises and social entrepreneurship on the whole. This article presents 5 key points to be considered before [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for September 23rd: Cause Marketing: Social Responsibility Is Dead (via GoodWorks) – In this article, Tim Sanders argues that Corporate Social Responsibility (as he defines it) died (or is on life support) in our current economic state. He argues that there is a need to fuse CSR and core business operations [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 26th: “An idea whose time has come” (via Acumen Fund Blog) – I enjoyed this piece written by Chris Bennett, a rising senior at Stanford and recent participant in Acumen Fund‘s Student Leader Workshop. The Workshop is an awesome opportunity for students to interact with the social capital movement [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 3rd: US Africa Trade on Exhibition at 8th Annual AGOA Forum (via Africa Business Source) – A nice overview of this weeks AGOA forum. Makes the good point that the issue needing MOST focus is no longer market access, but rather building up the competitiveness of African Countries by [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for July 30th: Video of The Philanthropist Debate (via Tactical Philanthropy) – Sean posted video on his blog of a debate held recently in Washington, DC over the TV show “The Philanthropist” Kenyan Gov’t Promises Reforms on Private Sector – President Kibaki has promised reforms on the private sector (particularly SMEs) [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now, however the launch of Transparency Solutions has been quite time consuming. So with no further ado, per the request of a reader: A look at B-Corporations! I was first introduced to B-Corporation (B standing for benefit, and B-Corp for short) a few months ago [...]

This video is taken from the BBC series “The Other America”, which focuses on poverty in Latin America. The short documentary explores three companies (Dole Fruit, CEMEX, and Perhusa Coffee) and their programs designed to integrate the poor into their corporate value chains. From the BBC site: “It is not about philanthropy or giving away [...]