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…
Social impact
Revenue vs Impact: How to Price Products Without Compromising Mission
It’s 2am and you’re staring at a spreadsheet that won’t balance. Your product costs 2,500 Kenya Shillings (KES) to produce and deliver. Your target customers…
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…
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…
Crowdfunding
Funding for Impact: How Social Enterprises Can Unlock Sustainable Financing
If you’ve ever run a social enterprise, you know the tension between purpose and profit is real. You’re not a traditional charity, but you’re also…
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…
Ethical fashion
The Rise of Ethical Fashion: Fairtrade, Social Impact, and Branding
Let’s not forget — fashion has a dirty past. Behind the glitz and glam of catwalks and storefronts, the industry has long struggled with murky…
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…