If you have personally experienced the life changing effects of cancer or know someone who has, then you understand the importance of healing and you understand how difficult life beyond [...]
KIPP, acronym for Knowledge is Power Program, was founded in 1994 by two alums of the Teach for America program, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin. Feinberg and Levin, public education [...]
If you’re familiar with Acumen Fund, you know these change makers genuinely understand, appreciate and support social entrepreneurship. With a unique, patient capital approach to venture investment, Acumen Fund is [...]
Twitter is here to stay. In the past few months site usage has increased dramatically, over 55% from January 2009 to February 2009. Users include Barrack Obama, CNN, and TechCrunch. [...]
Interested in an optimistic, intelligent, green news source? Yep, thought you would be. We recommend you check out what the change makers at worldchanging.com are up to. Recently named by [...]
During the past nine years, DonorsChoose.org is has been revolutionizing the way in which we think about funding for public education. Instead of relying on slow, bureaucratic, perpetually under funded [...]
“Ashoka envisions a world where everyone is a change maker: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal [...]
Stanford has great resources for social entrepreneurs. Among their many resources includes the Entrepreneurship Corner (ecorner), a compilation of speakers who share their wealth of knowledge. Here's a taste...
When Dr. Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank in 1983, he certainly did not expect to initiate the revolution we now know as micro-credit. Instead, he founded Grameen Bank because of [...]
Each year Harvard Business School in cooperation with the Kennedy School of Government hosts an annual Social Enterprise Conference. While we did not have a first row seat at the [...]
Lift Kids is a Minnesota-based non-profit organization taking action on the plight of impoverished children via a philanthropic franchise model centered on what they call a Lift Kids Village. By [...]
In 1971, Mimi Selbert and John Maher founded Delancey Street Foundation with a paltry $1000 loan and a big dream: to provide individuals at the bottom of societal totem pole [...]
The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop"
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