With courage and determination four young women in Zambia defy the odds and establish their own successful businesses. From a furniture store to a pre-school for vulnerable children, The Entrepreneurs...
Mwashamba Alimuse used to scratch out a living making handicrafts to sell to tourists on Zanzibar...islands off the coast of Tanzania. Now she is part of a village collective...
The Social Capital Movement. Call it blended value, call it philanthrocapitalism, call it social investing. Whatever you call it it's a wave, with equal parts movement and emerging asset class,...
Josh Becker is Co-founder and General Partner of New Cycle Capital, a venture capital firm focused on investing in businesses that promote a sustainable economy. He is an advisor to...
Katherine Fulton - president of the Monitor Institute and an expert on new philanthropy and social investing - takes a look ahead at the future of social capital markets.
In this speech from 2007's Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, uses his own experiences with smallpox eradication to argue that we have reason...
At the Skoll World Forum, Global X had a chance to chat with famous film producer and social entrepreneur Peter Samuelson. Listen to him as he tells the true story...
Social entrepreneur Joe Madiath, founder and executive director of Gram Vikas, tells Global X what happened when, at age 11, he tried to unionize the workers who were employed by...
David Bornstein, author of "How to Change the World," told Global X what happened when he was a young journalist and he first met Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh.
Social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation, Pakistan's third largest microfinance institution, tells Global X why she had to unlearn what she learned about economics.
She also...
Social entrepreneur Sebastien Marot, founder of Friends-International, tells Global X what happened when he first went to Cambodia. He was there for only a few days, but after what he...