Topic: Social Enterprise

SPZ is excited to announce a significant milestone in our journey towards heightened social impact and corporate philanthropy. Joining the global movement of Pledge 1%, we are committing to ...

Benefit corporations are a legal entity type that allow businesses to make a profit while pursuing a public benefit. There are certain responsibilities you will have if you decide to become a benefit ...

Consumers and businesses over the last several years have become more and more interested in businesses making or pushing for a positive social impact. One part of this movement has been the creation ...

B Lab, the nonprofit responsible for the passage of benefit corporation statutes in over 30 states (as of the writing of this post), has released a report on the status of venture capital raised by ...

Etsy made news when it went public as a B Corp in April 2015. And now we have the first Benefit Corporation to file for an Initial Public Offering (or IPO) in the U.S.: Laureate Education, an online ...

Litigation has long been the de facto solution for companies that find themselves mired in legal conflict. However, court-sanctioned squabbling comes with spiraling costs, tremendous time ...

Traditionally, the divide between a for-profit or nonprofit organization was clear: for-profit businesses would engage in revenue generation and nonprofits would engage in charitable work to solve ...

Program related investment--or PRI--is a potential source of funding for both nonprofits and for-profit social enterprises. A program related investment is an investment made by a tax-exempt private ...

Benefit Corporations and Social Purpose Corporations are entity types that were established in California with an eye towards allowing for-profit companies to engage in socially-minded activities ...