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Rise Up : How to Build a Socially Conscious Business
by Russ Stoddard
A new breed of socially conscious companies is changing how consumers shop, where employees work, and the way in which the world does business.
Rise Up: How to Build a Socially Conscious Business sets the stage for this optimistic business trend where companies create financial profit for stakeholders through products, services, and business models that create social impact and public benefit.
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With more than 25 years of experience running a Certified B Corporation (earned by meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency) that has always had social responsibility at its core, Russ Stoddard offers insights and guidance on how to create a socially conscious business, as well as encouraging words for social entrepreneurs of every generation.
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Real impact : the new economics of social change
by Morgan Simon
Simon, who specializes in impact investment and connects it to social justice, explains how to change the practice of impact investment to solve problems in the long term and create transformative social change. She describes her experiences as an activist in social justice; impact investment as a tool for creating a more generative and just world, as well as the field’s historical background and definitions; why impact investment often fails to maximize its potential; a new model for impact investment, with principles to foster its potential to create wealth and produce systemic economic, political, and social change by engaging communities in design, governance, and ownership, adding more value than is extracted, and fairly balancing risk and return between investors, entrepreneurs, and communities; stories of specific projects and how the principles work in practice; and what those who don’t work in the investment field can do.
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Give work : reversing poverty one job at a time
by Leila Janah
The founder of the nonprofit organization, Samasource, describes how she has coordinated with tech companies to provide employment to the world's poorest communities, outlining her theories about economic agency through job programs while sharing the stories of some of the thousands of people who have benefited from her advocacy successes.
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