IN BLOOM: Participants at the SEEED Summit at Brown University in 2013 share best practices and information on trends in social enterprise. / COURTESY PAINTED FOOT PHOTOGRAPHY/CAT LAINE
Packaging 2.0 President Michael Brown was running a social enterprise before he even identified with the term – generally, a nonprofit or for-profit venture with dual goals of being successful in business and generating positive social impact. “Our revenue grew 30 percent last year and it’s up 60 percent in the first quarter of 2014,”…