Monthly Archives: July 2009

To profit or not to profit: resources from the field

For those creating and operating social enterprises, several new articles shed light on which legal structure to choose. A new primer by Robert Wexler of Adler and Colvin offers a terrific overview of the options across the nonprofit/for-profit spectrum, and an article in Business Week describes some of the tradeoffs of nonprofit and for-profit status. [...]

Learning from Goodwill’s success

Last week, President Obama met at the White House with forward-thinking groups like the Harlem Children’s Zone, HopeLab and Genesys Works to highlight the White House’s new Office of Social Innovation. The President could have been referencing employment-focused social enterprise when he said today, “You teach us that there’s no such thing as a lost [...]