Steve Wright

Steve Wright lives in Oakland, CA and has been working in the social sector for 25 years. He was a high school teacher and administrator of 10 years, director of innovation at the Salesforce.com Foundation for another 10 years, and spent four years as a vice president at the Grameen Foundation, where he focused on incubating two social enterprises focused alleviating poverty: TaroWorks and the Progress out of Poverty Index. Currently he is consulting, writing, and spending lots of time with his kids.

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Monday
January 26
2015

Steve Wright

NexThought Monday – When it Comes to Social Enterprise, It’s Time to Take Ourselves Seriously

It is entirely possible that all of the ideas that we need to end global poverty are in place; however, we have so enthusiastically embraced the financial market metaphor that even the initiatives that must cooperate to succeed can’t do so fully because they are required to compete. There is an old and tired story to be inserted here about the balkanizing influence of competing for funding but instead of focusing on that, I would like to suggest a solution.

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Impact Assessment

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impact investing, social enterprise

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NexThought Monday – When it Comes to Social Enterprise, It’s Time to Take Ourselves Seriously