These include billion-dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction. It is also reflected in social-enterprise start-ups designed to achieve both social and financial returns, as well as in new impact-investing platforms aimed at the growing number of investors who are also seeking both types of returns.
这一矛盾思维的一个体现是，在解决社会问题方面，私人活动日益活跃，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会（Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation）和彭博慈善基金会（Bloomberg Philanthropies）等非营利组织出资数十亿美元刺激教育、公共卫生和减贫等方面的创新方案。另一个体现是旨在同时实现社会和财务回报的社会企业创业（social-enterprise start-ups）以及旨在增加同时追求这两种回报的投资者数量的影响力投资平台（impact-investing platforms）