Traveling through rural India in 2003, Anna Sidana saw a simple need that was out of reach for the people there, the need for safe, bright light. She went home and raised enough money for 250 portable “MightyLights” to donate to the children of Rajasthan, India. After seeing the amazing response, she convinced her employer, eBay [...]
Last month, I was frequenting the business district of Portland, Oregon where many were lamenting the loss of CubeSpace – an entrepreneurial community office for Portland’s hippest business minds. The economy and a number of other factors put the kabash on David Kominsky and Eva Schweber’s three year endeavor (you can read the [...]
Arizona State University, or ASU, is proud to be the first and only School of Sustainability. The school offers undergraduate – graduate – and PhD’s in sustainability. “There is still a debate about whether sustainability is a genuine field, and that’s why we use the word transdisciplinary – it isn’t just that we’re working across fields, [...]
The following is a guest post by Sidney Hargro, change evangelist, at www.innovate2uplift.net. Twitter: (@changeevnglst).
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While spending the week in the city of brotherly love, I had the grand opportunity to meet with Katherina Rosqueta, Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the [...]
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is receiving rave reviews from across the social innovation space.
Business Week calls it a “[...] smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and what’s next in green technologies and earth-conscious ideas.”
Denis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day, says, “Worldchanging might well be the most complete, compelling articulation [...]
The video above is one of the most eloquent and comprehensive explanations of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I ‘ve seen. In it, Hans Rosling, co-founder of Gapminder.org, discusses the progression of HIV/AIDS in the world with the Gapminder World data platform. The images are truly stunning. The lecture is even more stimulating as it reveals [...]
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Melissa Richer, founder of Ayllu, a new organization whose purpose is to “integrate social enterprise into low-income economies.” Ayllu is currently developing a model to enable social enterprises to franchise their models and microcredit banks to extend financial services to the newly franchised micro enterprises.
Melissa’s Background
After graduating [...]
At the Clean Tech Open symposium on renewable energy July 21st, Autodesk announced its Clean Tech Partner Program. A new initiative that awards up to 100 companies each nearly $150,000 dollars worth of Autodesk design support and software. The program is aiming at companies advancing renewable energy, but will include anyone willing to incorporate [...]
Mobile innovation and social change go hand in hand. From micro-volunteerism to SMS for microfinance, change agents are leveraging the potential of mobile technology to create positive social change. On Tuesday, CHF International (CHF), an international development organization, received $1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to connect people in India’s slum with [...]
IDEO , an innovative design consulting firm, has partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to design a step by step Human-Centered Design (HCD) guide that allows social entrepreneurs to establish their own Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) or Social Enterprise.
The toolkit is divided [...]
The following is a guest post by Amy Carol Wolff, who is an Intern at Opportunity International and Imagine This! TV.
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As the microfinance market continues to develop in both area reach and method, Opportunity International has engaged several leading microfinance minds in conversation on Twitter. Through a live discussion called Microfinance Monday (#mifimon), microfinance [...]
