Tag Archives: Triple bottom-line

Who Are Today’s Social Entrepreneurs? Echoing Green’s Lara Galinksy Talks Trends

Within the world of social enterprise, there’s a subsect of organizations that help incubate and scale social ventures.  These entities, from veterans Ashoka and Echoing Green to young buck Unreasonable Institute, play varying roles of investor, connector, teacher and trend-chronicler of a rising-star sector. To look beyond the magazine gloss and speculation and get a […]

Two Questions You Need To Answer Before Choosing a Structure For Your Social Enterprise–with Brian Howe

How much control of your company are you willing to give up in exchange for funds? is a question that all investment-seeking entrepreneurs need to answer. Social entrepreneurs are confronted with another key question that impacts how they want to set legally establish their organization: How important is profit versus mission? With these two questions […]

Will Sarni Helps Coke and Cisco Save the Planet and Make More Money

Will Sarni firmly believes that if your company is not engaging in viable sustainable initiatives, it’s positioning itself as a dinosaur. I asked Will how he advises companies–like Coca-Cola and Wrigley–on sustainability, whether sustainability has finally shed its skin as a moral initiative and when things ‘tipped.’ Will is the Founder and CEO of DOMANI […]