Introducing NextAid
Imagine taking the power of music, the conviction of environmentally sustainable process, and the commitment to the children of Africa and combining them all to reach those infected with and orphaned by the HIV/AIDS virus. If you throw in strong local non-profit organization partnerships and a small team of passionate people, you’ve got [...]
Google loves all things scalable. So it comes as no surprise that the Second Annual Project 10^100 seeks to exponentialize ideas which can change the lives of millions. The basic premise behind Project 10^100 is to find ideas to some of the biggest challenges our world faces and scale those ideas for social good. In [...]
October 1st at the Times Center in New York City there will be a feel-good, socially conscious and idea-generating experience taking place. The Feast Conference, a design- and innovation-ridden “more-than-a-conference” event, will gather some of the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking [...]
Sometimes, I get tired of listening to people on top. Yesterday marked the wrap-up of the fourth annual Global Creative Leadership Summit (GCLS) hosted at the Metropolitan Club in New York City and all I have to say is *yawn.* I went to their website on Saturday morning eager for fresh intellectual fodder on [...]
If you’re born into a favela, you don’t have much to hope for. Crime, violence, and extreme poverty practically abut the posh neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia, and other major cities of Brazil. This type of juxtaposition of extreme poverty vs. obscene wealth makes it painstakingly easy for those living in [...]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Georgetown University, and the Society for International Development will host a panel on social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for reducing poverty and strengthening economies in the developing world. This discussion, featuring experts from the White House and the Brookings Institution, along with six social entrepreneurs from the [...]
Probably the only thing cooler than social enterprise is partying, so on the occasion that the two are combined into one memorable event – you will find me there. Our friends across the pond at Social Enterprise Coalition are hosting the sixth annual conference for social enterprise in the UK, known as Voice, in [...]
Can social entrepreneurship be taught? Regardless of your take on the matter, the Transformative Action Institute (TAI) believes it can. And they have the numbers to back it up.
The Transformative Action Institute’s mission is to educate the next generation of social entrepreneurs – the next Gandhi’s of our world, if you will. TAI [...]
Leadership for a Better World: Creating Social Value through Innovation, held in Washington, D.C. has just announced the schedule for the September 25th forum.
The event is organized around the idea of bringing together a cross-sector audience (business, nonprofit, policy and academia) for a series of discussions on how to create, lead and sustain organizations [...]
The definition of charity, is to volunteer or collect money to help others in need, what could be more simple than that? Project 7 is taking that premise and making it even easier. This innovative organization intends for you to help others without really trying.
By purchasing items you would have most likely bought anyway; i.e. [...]
Today, we should all be having a 90-minute conversation with British actor, Pete Postlethwaite. In the eco-documentary “The Age of Stupid” – premiering today, September 21st, in the US and tomorrow worldwide, Postlethwaite takes on the role of an aging archivist looking back on the error of our ways from the year 2055. He [...]
Part 2 of my featured socially conscious music videos:
I’d be the last person to admit to liking the Canadian alt rockers, Nickelback, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for their 2007 music video release: “If Everyone Cared.” The lyrics and the song itself are not particularly transcendental, but the imagery [...]
