Social Return on Investment: Helping people with your money.
Entrepreneurship: Doing things that may or may not help people, including, but not limited to, things you can make money on.
Social Entrepreneurship: Doing things that may or may not help people, including, but not limited to, things you can make money on.
Social Enterprise: The thing that you do when you do things.
Leverage: Doing something that helps and/or inspires others to do something.
Effectiveness: Doing the thing that you do really well.
Capacity: As in, "increased capacity" or "capacity building." Actually, I'm not totally sure on what this means. But I know it's important and I know I say it a lot.
Scale: Making the thing that you do bigger.
Growth: See "Scale."
Growth Capital: The money that you need to make the thing that you do bigger.
Evaluation: Making sure the thing you are doing isn't the wrong thing.
Rigorous Evaluation: Really making sure the thing you are doing isn't the wrong thing.
Metrics: The numbers that you use to make sure the thing you are doing isn't the wrong thing.
Innovation: Doing something new, or something in a different way, that may or may not help people.
Social Innovation: Doing something new, or something in a different way, that may or may not help people.
Social Capital Markets: All the money that there is to help people do the things that help people.
"Triple Bottom Line": Making money, helping people and helping the environment all at the same time.
Philanthropy: Money that helps people.
Charity: Money that helps people.
Social Investment: Money that helps people.
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