Creating impact
Storytelling for Impact Brands
The Story That Backfired Grace had the perfect customer story for her Tanzanian solar energy company’s marketing campaign. Mama Halima, a rural vegetable seller, had…
Creating impact
How to Tell Your Full Story of Profit and Purpose
You may be running a social enterprise that’s changing lives. You’ve got loyal customers, a passionate team, and the numbers are finally starting to look…
Agritech
Tech-Enabled Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers
Across Africa, smallholder farmers feed the continent — yet they remain some of its poorest citizens. They grow most of our food, but struggle to…
Creating impact
Policy Frameworks to Support Social Enterprises
Social entrepreneurs across Africa are solving some of the continent’s toughest challenges — unemployment, waste management, access to healthcare, climate adaptation — and they’re doing…
Circular economy
Circular Economy and Waste-to-Value Business Models
Africa has a waste problem. From plastic bottles littering our streets to mountains of e-waste piling up in dumpsites, the continent is drowning in materials…
Creating impact
Practical Social Impact Measurement
“lmpact measurement” sounds like something dreamt up by consultants with endless spreadsheets and a love for jargon. For many social entrepreneurs, it feels like a…
Creating impact
5 African Startups Solving Big Local Problems—with Scalable Impact
In Africa, necessity doesn’t just breed invention—it drives transformation. Across the continent, innovators are turning water scarcity, food insecurity, unemployment, and energy gaps into opportunities…
Creating impact
More Founders Are Going Impact-First. Is the Ecosystem Ready?
More and more ex-founders are stepping away from high-growth tech or consumer startups and entering the world of impact roles—whether it’s in climate tech, education,…
Creating impact
Mission-Driven and Market-Smart: How Social Enterprises Win the Competitive Race
Running a social enterprise is like playing chess on a battlefield—your heart wants to serve, but your head knows the market is fierce. You’re competing…
Mohammad Yunus
How Muhammad Yunus Revolutionized Microfinance to Combat Poverty
What if poverty wasn’t inevitable, but a solvable challenge? In the 1970s, one man decided to flip the script on conventional banking and put financial…