This post is the second in conjunction with my weekly partner column with Ashoka’s Change Insight blog. I’m covering the top highlights from the vast world of social entrepreneurship and the innovative goodness that stews within. Here are this week’s stories:
Road to Hyderabad Ends: Tech4Society Conference Begins
The official blogger has been chosen and all [...]
Although I thoroughly enjoy my fair trade coffee, the real day I’m waiting for is when I can fill up with fair trade gasoline. Oxfam and other humanitarian organizations are receiving a lot of glitter over the Haiti crisis, but I think it’s important to recognize some of the other campaigns they have been [...]
The United Kingdom has never had the best track record for taking care of its wanes – from public school horror stories to the infamous Green Street Hooligans – they could do better, but they are trying. This week brings forth the application deadline for ThanksTo.com’s six week Social Enterprise Challenge aimed at helping [...]
Green
The Green Guerrillas plan on getting down to the nitty gritty on what it means to be “green” in 2010 with the fourth film in their documentary series, Green Guerrillas Blockumentary v.3 HD in 3G: Ganonyonk | Gye Nyame | Generation. They are looking to chop away at inconsistent environmental policies and contradictions, to [...]
Back in August, while I was visiting that Mexican village that is so close to my heart, I spent some time with one of the kids I met when I first went to that place. Adiel was one of the “lucky kids” of the village. His family, due to his sister marrying well, was [...]
Dear Pessimist,
I know it’s not okay to push my ideas on other people. I know not everyone thinks the same, but lately, it’s been hard holding my tongue. Every once in awhile I run into you – in the street, at a party or in the gym and I’m amazed you’re still holding on. [...]
The zyOzy Foundation announced a global initiative to raise much-needed funds for Haitian relief.
Amy C. Wolff, an Indiana University graduate student specializing in non-profit management, zyOzy collegiate advisory partner and song composer, is calling upon choirs all over the world to help raise money by video recording her composition “A Brighter Way,” an inspirational, [...]
This post introduces a weekly partner post with Ashoka’s Change Insight blog. I’ll be covering the top highlights from the vast world of social entrepreneurship and the innovative goodness that stews within. Here are this week’s stories:
Volunteer for Haiti Without Leaving Your Home
A great resource piece by Nathaniel Whittemore on how people can support [...]
Heads up all graduate students, if you’re looking to get a jump start on changing the world, try a 3 month internship with Changing Our World, a progressive philanthropy and fundraising cultural firm based in New York, New York. Changing Our World is now accepting applications for their summer Social Enterprise Fellowship until March [...]
The social entrepreneurship crew generally likes to poo poo traditional development.
And why not? It is an easy target given the widely held belief that aid doesn’t work and evidence showing the wholesale ineffectiveness of many development projects. We are increasingly convinced that aid donors – institutional and individual – have dumped incalculable sums down [...]
When I watch the shiny, intent faces of my Basque students as they stumble awkwardly over their English vocabulary in thick accents, it’s impossible to fathom that any of them could become a serious danger to society. Granted, they have to barricade the ground floor of windows to prevent the weekend prowlers from making [...]
The fact that I’m finding it difficult to begin this post pales in comparison to the difficulty aid workers are facing on how to begin the relief effort in Haiti. As we all know by now, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, just south of the nation’s capital, Port au Prince. It [...]
