Social projects in emerging markets are eminently worthy, especially in Latin America, which can boast about many things at the moment but not about being the continent with the world’s biggest wealth gaps.

How to make them make commercial sense is far more challenging, and that is the mission of San Francisco- and Santiago-based Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team (NESsT). The non-profit organisation is holding meetings this week in Chile and Hungary, the two countries where it began supporting social entrepreneurs nearly 15 years ago, to raise the profile of sustainable social entrepreneurship – especially among deep-pocketed venture capitalists. Continue reading »