Redefining Profit In A World Of Turmoil

Exploding populations, scarce food sources, polluted air and water, low literacy rates, sexual violence, human trafficking, climate change, unrighteous politics…Where’s the social change?

Nonetheless, not all is dark. There are numerous positive changemakers striving for change everyday, around the world. These are individuals, non-profits, and (some) businesses. Yet, when these changemakers meet corporate leaders of established firms, there’s a gigantic difference in mindsets, intellectual frame of mind, and definition of profit.

According to Bugg-Levine et al, a growing number of social entrepreneurs and investors realize that social enterprises of all sorts can generate financial returns that will make them attractive to the right investors (2012). In order to make financial capital more accessible to social entrepreneurs, investors have been tinkering around with several new innovative funding methods, such as: loan guarantees, quasi-equity debt, pooling, and social impact bonds (Bugg-Levine, 2012).

However, Yunus et al (2010) have taken it a step further by comparing and contrasting traditional and social business models, and…

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