“On a round trip to Thailand with my family in 2007, I got the idea for Mentory,” says Natasha Friis Saxberg, founder of the global mentorship platform. “I felt so amazingly privileged, having a wonderful family and being able to pursue my dreams. But taking a look at the population in Thailand made [...]
The much anticipated Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, led by Sonal Shah, was officially launched yesterday at the White House, despite the fact that the office has already been operating for several months.
The Obama Administration created the office to identify innovative non-profits and social businesses that have proven records creating solutions for [...]
Does the vision of supplying power for all of the European Union with energy created on another continent seem like a mirage? The Sahara Forest Project is an exciting collaboration between two continents that are using proven technology to do just that. Exploration Architecture, a leader in sustainable architecture, has an aggressive plan to put formerly useless [...]
As is somewhat typical on the music scene, Wilco could have thrown a fit when they learned their latest album was leaked online prior to its release state, but instead, they responded with social entrepreneur savvy. They put a link to their 2009 album, called Wilco, and wrote: “We suggest you make a donation [...]
Better The World is a social change network that strives to make it easy and free for people to earn money for charity.
By creating an account on their site and downloading their browser add-on for FireFox or Internet Explorer you can start earning points that add up to cash for the charity you choose [...]
In the six years ARKive has been in operation, it has been saving the Earth’s threatened species one image at a time. Powerful images of these creatures are what ARKive claims to be the key to raising awareness in today’s multi-mediated societies. The extinction rates of global species are rapidly increasing, ARKive’s tireless mission [...]
Today, May 27th, is the official launch of the SocialEarth website redesign.
After a couple weeks of diligently refining the site to incorporate your feedback, we are happy to announce that the new and improved SocialEarth.org is here. We would like to say thank you for your patience during our time of transition. [...]
What if there was a Website that would plant a tree for you just by signing up? It would be pretty easy to make an impact, huh?
Socially conscious networks are sprouting up across the Web and new start-up Everywun is pioneering the online difference-making. Users participate on the site by earning and using credits [...]
TED Fellows program brings outstanding, world-changing leaders to participate in TED community
NEW YORK, May 26 /PRNewswire/ — Organizers of the TED Conference introduced today the 25 new TED Fellows who will participate in TED’s annual international conference, TEDGlobal. These Fellows have been invited to join the TED community by attending TEDGlobal 2009, to be [...]
It couldn’t be easier. Sign up, choose your favorite cause and start a virtual campaign via your email in minutes.
ReplyForAll is a free service that allows an advocate to choose a cause and promote it with a slick image, info and ad through your Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail account.
You can even add one of [...]
That’s right. With this May’s unveiling of the Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs, Guinness has proven that we may actually be able to drink away our sorrows. If not our own – we’ll at least be able to take a punch at the greater social ills of the world. As a part of [...]
Welcome back! I thought nothing could be better for our second week of socially conscious book recommendations then a book that talks about changing the world.
In The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan discuss a new breed of “unreasonable” social entrepreneurs who [...]
In only two short years, Shai Agassi has began a revolution in transportation and it is changing minds around the world. In 2007, Shai had a seemingly impossible vision. To create an electric grid infrastructure that would power the world’s vehicles with clean electric created entirely from wind and solar energy. Mr. Agassi has laid the groundwork with charging stations currently in Australia, Canada, [...]
