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Welcome to the Social Edge update! Social entrepreneurs can be creative in finding ways to structure new business models, like combining their nonprofit organization with a for-profit venture. Often known as hybrids or dual structure, these new enterprises combine financial investment with grant capital. “But this choice is not without its challenges,” writes Lindsay Clinton from Mumbai, “as these new structures raise questions about branding, positioning to investors and donors, competing work cultures and even transparency.” She also thinks that creating new legal structures may slow down real change in mainstream business by taking away the incentive for large corporations to question the way they work. Tell us what you think, then check in with Dr. O who is also prescribing healthy business structures. He takes us deep into the Peruvian Amazon where a social venture is launching a for-profit business owned by the women of an Achual village to take charge of their lives and sustain their culture. Follow sustainability experts Amy Fetzer and Shari Aaron as they showcase successful examples of creative collaboration between social entrepreneurs and large corporations around social and environmental issues. And discover our new blogger, Lara Vogel, who spent her first few years in the Middle East, went to Stanford, traveled to Asia, Russia, Africa and India as a freelance writer until she reached Kenya, where she got stuck in an orphanage and launched her own social venture. She is now an MBA student at Oxford and is blogging on Social Edge as a social entrepreneur behind the trenches, one who took the plunge into “the evil world of profiteers and consultants –not that there's anything wrong with that…” Read how Lara Vogel keeps Running to Outpace Poverty.
Join this Week's Live Discussions  Hybrid Models: The Social and Commercial Two-Step
Are hybrids really innovative structures or simply stopgap measures? Join Mumbai-based Lindsay Clinton in the conversation.
Climbing the Green Ladder: The Power of Partnerships
To become more sustainable, business needs the talent, passion and understanding of the social entrepreneur. Sustainability experts Amy Fetzer and Shari Aaron offer a guideline to effective collaboration. This holiday, give knowledge!
Knowledge sharing is the cornerstone of innovation and collaboration, writes Jill Finlayson. To make a difference, consider what information you can share, what data you can aggregate, and how you can collaborate. Is a "Social Economy" really possible?
Where are the big success stories, the social sector equivalents of Google or Facebook? Will the funding continue to flow to unsustainable, though eminently worthy, social enterprises? Join Rod Schwartz in a provocative conversation. Gen-Y: The Social Innovation Generation
“We want to create sustainable projects that will continue to affect lives for years to come,” says ThinkImpact’s Saul Garlick. Can you help Gen-Y become the social innovation generation? Women in the Social Economy
An excess of testosterone and an absence of diversity have nearly destroyed the western economic system, writes ClearlySo CEO Rod Schwartz. Is it time for a more feminine economy?
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