In the process of reviewing the innovations and investment potential of the Social Investment Entrepreneurs in Ashoka’s Global Fellowship Program, it became clear that social entrepreneurs are beginning to use the market to address social challenges on a large scale.
This process guided us towards social finance opportunities, shed new light on common challenges in the sector, and, most importantly, pointed us towards opportunities for significantly greater impact.
Thanks to the generous support of the Trico Charitable Foundation, the following pages communicate our initial understanding of how people are using markets to address social challenges at scale, and the opportunities and implications for social finance.
We hope you find this vision as helpful as we have, and look forward to your thoughts on how we may push our thinking further.
