{"id":1313,"date":"2008-02-01T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2011-05-13T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:20:04","slug":"third-year-social-capitalist-award-win-for-unitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/third-year-social-capitalist-award-win-for-unitus\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-Year \u201cSocial Capitalist Award\u201d Win for Unitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row,\u00a0<em>Fast Company <\/em>magazine and Monitor Group announced that Unitus has won a Social Capitalist Award<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 awards feature 45 nonprofits who use the tools of business to solve the world\u2019s most pressing social problems\u2014ranging from poor healthcare in developing nations to unequal education access, homelessness, unemployment and substance abuse in the United States\u2014and who have demonstrated a consistent and unusually large impact on society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we\u2019ve seen an explosion of diverse experiments, many of them engineered by onetime Wall Street heavies, that attempt to bring new capital\u2014and capital-market dynamics\u2014to the realm of social good,\u201d said\u00a0<em>Fast Company <\/em>Contributing Writer Keith Hammonds. \u201cThrough these deals, social entrepreneurs and businesses are raising the stakes, creating both business and social impact, and changing old-style capitalism as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/awards\/\" rel=\"tag\">awards<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/fast-company\/\" rel=\"tag\">fast company<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row,\u00a0Fast Company magazine and Monitor Group announced that Unitus has won a Social Capitalist Award The 2008 awards feature 45 nonprofits who use the tools of business to solve the world\u2019s most pressing social problems\u2014ranging from poor healthcare in developing nations to unequal education access, homelessness, unemployment and substance&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/third-year-social-capitalist-award-win-for-unitus\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"For the third year in a row, Fast Companymagazine and Monitor Group announced that Unitus has won a Social Capitalist Award.","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[79,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}