This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka Launches Globalizer After 30 years of developing the field of Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka is taking our next step: working intensively with a carefully-selected group of [...]
I’m just now getting around to watching my TED talks…Author and publisher, Dave Eggers, and his “Once Upon A School” presentation so far takes the cake. I have been a fan of Eggers ever since his best-selling, quirky memoir, entitled: “The Heartbreaking Working of a Staggering Genius” came out in 2000. Ten years later, his [...]
The majority of immigrants come to the United States with a dream and very little money to make it on. Instead of starting on the streets, what if all they needed was a big idea and their financial security could then be petitioned for? That’s what “The Start-Up Visa Act of 2010“, introduced by Massachusetts [...]
One of the many challenges of my job as an English teacher in the Basque Country is to inspire a level of understanding in my students on just how big the world is. Now living in a foreign country, the spectrum of cultural differences seems obvious to me, but for my my students, the world [...]
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Vintage copy of a Salinger novel? Ghosts in a jar? Nowadays, you can buy just about anything on the interwebs. That includes the coolest new gadgets – at least, for most of us. But what about high-tech goods for the developing [...]
Halle Tecco is the Founder and Executive Director of Yoga Bear, a non-profit providing more opportunities of health and wellness to cancer patients through the practice of yoga. Halle has worked as a Product Manager at various consumer-internet startups, including Enternships.com and Kiva.org. She also serves as an [...]
Almost two weeks ago, I had the privilege of sitting down with some of the Microsoft Community Affairs team in Redmond, WA. The small group I met with focuses primarily on the company’s Strengthening NGOs Through IT program, which is led by Jane Meseck, a non-profit technology and public policy expert who has been with [...]
The Foreign Policy blog recently gave charitable celebrity, Madonna, a chide or two for uprooting villagers in order to build her school in Malawi and I feel obligated to come to her defense. No one knows the real story, but what we do know is people love to complain about rich people who are trying [...]
Over the last 30 years Ashoka has been enabling early-stage social entrepreneurs to follow their dreams. This network of Ashoka Fellows has become one of the largest and most supportive systems in social entrepreneurship. The newest addition to this support system, coined Ashoka Globalizer, was launched February 18 and is funded by the Essl Social [...]
This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Lot’s of great #SocEnt news this week. Check out the wrap: Tech4Society in Hyderabad, India Wraps Up Even though the conference is over, the discussion is still going. Get all the conference goodies here and follow what was tweeted from Hyderabad and around [...]
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Carbon offsets? Cap and trade? As carbon dioxide levels reach a critical tipping point, the human race is scrambling to find solutions to the problem of climate change. But how do we make them sustainable? Jason Aramburu started asking himself that [...]
Wind farms are still a relatively new form of sustainable technology. There is still a lot of room for a improvement and a few visionaries over at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have gone so far as to forget about the air and look to the water for the answers on how best [...]
The following is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. If you ran the world, what would you do? Go ahead, think for a sec. (Aside from buying an island off of Thailand and/or making someone bake you a pie every morning.) How about something as audacious as saving the world? Now [...]
