Last night I had the good fortune of attending a “Summit on Leading in Crisis” at the University of Minnesota facilitated by Bill George. George, former CEO of Medtronic cum [...]
“We believe in the inner strength and beauty of every human being,” Ingrid Munro, founder of Jamii Bora, speaks softly into the microphone. “It is often the most destitute that [...]
Clicking for a cause is nothing new. Online change-makers have been using Care2.com as their “free click to donate” source for quite some time. What is new is this: A [...]
Sometimes, the help you need really does come down from the heavens and just because you might not see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Since 1982, ORBIS – a [...]
I confess I am kind of a ‘garage girl’ – I grew up handing wrenches to my dad under one of his many perfectly tuned cars. Later as a teenager, [...]
The @SoCap09 Twitter stream from their recent conference got me thinking about the hype surrounding social enterprise. There is, no doubt, a lot of it. I’m guilty of contributing. As [...]
For many close-knit communities in developing nations, their ability to survive depends in part on the cash that they receive from family members working abroad. Known as remittances, these money [...]
The Opus Prize Foundation has been recognizing faith-based social entrepreneurs for the last 15 years (originally founded in 1994). Finalists must exhibit “entrepreneurship, transformational leadership, faith lived each day, service [ ...
Jina Moore, a correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, recently crawled inside the brain of five social entrepreneurs in hopes of figuring out what makes them tick. Her quest was similar in [...]
This past February, at the Clinton Global Initiative University conference in Austin, Texas, I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Evan Thomas, Executive Vice President of Manna Energy Limited, an [...]
The secret to success behind the work of Albina Ruiz can be found 3 minutes and 25 seconds into this Social Entrepreneur showcase segment produced by Deutsche Welle’s Global 3000 [...]
Who is more environmentally-friendly? Who’s cuter? Who cuts better? These are a few of the questions that one must confront when selecting the best lawn care option. Just in time [...]
There were nearly 900 attendees from 32 countries on 40 panels, and more than 100 speakers at this year’s three day Social Capital Markets annual event. Today was the last [...]
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