Kresge Research Guides: Social Entrepreneurship: Getting Started

Researching Social Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprises

Research guide includes resources that you may use to find information on Social Enterpeurship or Social Enterprises.

According to Ashoka: "Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change."

Other resources to check at Kresge Library include:

Kresge Guide for Nonprofit Organizations & NGOs
Kresge Guide for Entrepreneurship

Top Social Entrepreneurship Resources at Kresge Library

ABI/INFORM Collection
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- Academic and industry-oriented business periodical literature, with full-text access to selected newspapers.
- Access to news and trade publications that cover the retail sector.
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Business Source Complete
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- Great resource for scholarly articles and trade publications that cover social entrepeneurship.
- Full text access to Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly and thousands of scholarly and trade publications as well.
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Business Source Complete."
EMIS Emerging Markets
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- International news, economic statistics, market quotes and analyst reports on countries, companies, and industries. Includes resources for Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Australia.
- Great coverage of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises, especially in the developing world, in reports and news articles.

Kresge Catalog
- Great deal of works on Social Entrepeneurship are found in ebooks.
- Kresge Library Catalog is a great way to connect with these titles that cover the entire Social Enterprise space.
Foundation Directory Online
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- The Foundation Center provides a comprehensive source for news and information on U.S.based foundations.
- The site includes: searchable archives of Philanthropy News Digest, Foundation Finder, Philanthropy Search Engine for the web (Sector Search), 990-PF forms, a virtual classroom with online tutorials for proposal writing, bugeting and more.
- Use IssueLab section for reports and articles.

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