Using new technologies to tackle the sort of work nonprofits do — what’s usually referred to as social entrepreneurship — is in its earliest stages in Baltimore.
A number of organizations have focused their missions on such work, including the nonprofit Warnock Foundation, which recently released the first edition of its Social Innovation Journal.
The Social Innovation Lab at the Johns Hopkins University, now in its third year as an incubator for socially-minded startups, specifically looks for “solutions that are actually solving problems as the value proposition for each company,” as director Kunal Parikh explained in an interview with CityBizList.
Read the full interview here, and read more about this year’s Social Innovation Lab class here.
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