Launched just last month at the Voice 09 conference and created in partnership with the RBS Community Bank and Social Enterprise Magazine, the RBS SE 100 Index enables social businesses to monitor their growth and social impact.
Last week, I attended a presentation by Tarun Khanna, professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. His presentation focused on microfinance, a th ...
It is now blaringly obvious that capitalism as it stands is indisputably flawed and has in fact failed us. Too bad our entire economy had to collapse ...
Interested in the role of technology to propel social entrepreneurship? Cool. Check out the upcoming Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference o ...
United Prosperity isn’t just another non-profit organization asking for your hard earned cash with little oversight to ensure your dollar is actually contributing to solving a social ill. Instead, it [...]
Harvard Business School has selected Elizabeth Scharpf to be the inaugural recipient of its Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. “The HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program is designed to support the efforts [...]
Social entrepreneurship is really picking up momentum. On the same day that the Skoll Global Forum on Social Entrepreneurship begins, the third annual Staples/Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition has launched. [...]
The typical cost of a movie relative to the average American monthly family budget is approximately 1%. Fairly insignificant. In Mexico, however, that cost is approximately 20% of a family’s [...]
As we progress with SocialEarth, we will post weekly videos focused on social entrepreneurship under the title, Think Deeper. A key part of our Think Deeper posts is to stimulate [...]
One of the negative consequences of our sumptuous lifestyles in developed countries is the hazardous carbon dioxide emissions we leave behind as a result of engaging in everyday activities. By [...]
Since 1999, the Skoll Foundation has been a pioneer of social entrepreneurship. Founded by Jeff Skoll, the foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world [...]
While we may take clean water for granted, there are hundreds of millions of people around our world who are short of this basic necessity. In 1992, the United Nations [...]
Attention social entrepreneurs and change makers: if you have not heard of TED, then you’re missing out, really missing out. TED, acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design, started in 1984, is [...]
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