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Social Enterprises Can Grow Their Revenue and Impact by Partnering with Corporations – Here’s How to Support Them

James Militzer

As interest in social enterprises continues to increase around the world, Social Enterprise Support Organizations (SESOs) – like impact investors and accelerators – need to take action now to invest in the capacity of these businesses to seize the cross-sector growth opportunities that lie ahead.

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What starting a spice company in Tanzania taught me about sustainability and equity

Corporate Knights

Much of my early career entailed bridging gaps between corporate objectives for mineral extraction and equitable access and distribution of resources to local communities. Those were nascent days of corporate social responsibility, when the focus was on corporate image, not substantive changes to business practice.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Most recently, Andrew Winston and former Unilever CEO Paul Polman’s “Net-Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take,” serves as a rallying cry for corporate social responsibility rooted in stakeholder primacy.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon.

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

“ The crises we face are not a science problem, they are a human problem.” – Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, announcing Walmart’s commitment to become a “Regenerative Company” . Doug McMillon is right. Mazzucato is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College, London.