Spring Issue Preview: Social Media for Social Good
A sneak peak at an article from our upcoming Spring 2017 issue, on newsstands March 28: Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes has built the world’s largest social-media management company?—?the tool of choice for the majority of Fortune 1000 companies?—?valued at an estimated $1 billion. But his biggest impact may be in helping startups and nurturing new crops of tech entrepreneurs.
Award-Winning Canadian Craft Brewery Expands Ownership to Its ‘Family’ of Employees When Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co.’s co-founders decided to sell, there was only one way Steve Beauchesne, punk-rocker-turned-entrepreneur, felt he could do it: by selling his company to the employees through an employee-stock ownership plan and breaking the owner-versus-worker class system by turning the company’s workers into co-owners.
Using Inclusion to Generate Profits and Social Justice CEO Mike Brady and Head of External Affairs Jonathan Halperin at Greyston Bakery wrote about social enterprise and open hiring at Greyston Bakery, and how they have dovetailed successful growth with more inclusive business practices. This modest bakery with a great, big, disruptive idea.
The Best Practices to Shift Businesses and Entrepreneurs to a ‘Regenerative Paradigm’ In this interview with LIFT Economy, Carol Sanford, the author of “The Responsible Business” and “The Responsible Entrepreneur” provides what she sees as the core education needed for business leaders to shift to a more regenerative mindset.
A New SOCAP Initiative: The Good Capital Project The goal of the Good Capital Project is to accelerate mainstreaming impact investing through a collaborative design process that brings together financial, design, academic, nonprofit, governmental and impact communities.