Global Social Enterprise Initiative
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How Change Happens: Why Do Some Social Movements Succeed and Others Fail?
What does (and doesn’t) work in building the better world we dream about? Why do some movements for social change succeed while others fizzle or even fail? For considering these questions, one of the most helpful resources I have found recently is the book How Change Happens by Leslie Crutchfield. She is the executive director of Georgetown University’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative. She and her team have researched some of the major recent movements for social change in the United States to find common patterns.
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Symposium Aims To Help Nonprofits Improve
The symposium’s keynote speaker will be Leslie Crutchfield, executive director of Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Crutchfield is a senior adviser for the consulting firm FSG and co-authored the book “Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits.”
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Change Happens
At GSEI and in a new book, Leslie Crutchfield keeps her finger on the pulse of how and why social changes occur, or do not, in the 21st century.
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Aging Well Hub Launches Experience Mapping Tools
Georgetown McDonough’s Aging Well Hub announced the rollout of two experience mapping tools.
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GSEI Receives Part of $1 million grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation
The grant supports research on women’s economic mobility and workforce social enterprise.
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#Trending: Rural Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs exist beyond Silicon Valley. There’s tremendous potential for venture capital and innovation in small companies and small towns across rural America.
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Access To Capital Is Critical to Ensuring Success of Rural Entrepreneurs
An op-ed by Matthew McKenna, executive-in-residence, Global Social Enterprise Initiative: “Many people across the country think that the story of rural America has already been written. Small towns are increasingly being left behind, and the capital that is so badly needed to spur economic growth and opportunity is not finding its way to small business owners and entrepreneurs that are the core of rural communities.”
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The State Of Caregiving For Alzheimer’s And Related Dementia 2018
“It’s as if women are expected to be the caregivers,” says Diane Ty, project director of Global Social Enterprise Initiative and AgingWell Hub at Georgetown University. She points out that since many women have previously taken on the role as primary caregiver to children, their siblings or other family members often assume they’ll take the lead in Alzheimer’s care.
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The Rise of the Silver Economy
The growing population of older adults has businesses scrambling to address the challenges — and opportunities — that come with aging in the 21st century.
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AB InBev Foundation and Georgetown’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative Partner on Underage Drinking
AB InBev Foundation has formed a partnership with the Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business to work on changing social norms and reducing youth alcohol use, beginning in South Africa.
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