Social Entrepreneurship Knitting is often associated with grandmas, not social enterprise. However, Cambodian Knits founder and social entrepreneur Monika Nowaczyk makes the connection. At six years old Monika fled Communist [...]
Getting a paid job in microfinance can sometimes seem like the Holy Grail of nonprofit work. The fact of the matter is that the top-notch, innovative, ...
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. How do you explain something that your listener doesn’t understand? Put ...
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. New digital tools like Chatroulette, Twitter, and Foursquare are i ...
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 [...]
The following is a shared post with the social enterprise alliance blog. After talking with Mike Del Ponte of Sparkseed and his mention of Leila Chirayath Janah, founder of Samasource, I had [...]
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. It’s a fact: This planet has problems. Zillions of them. Everywhere. And though our media-drenched world [...]
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. Denver [...]
Scarcity can be a very nasty thing. People war over scarce resources: oil, water, investment capital. For social entrepreneurs and impact investors, the war is not life-or-death, but it often [...]
Aside from money and time, the things that people donate are often, well, unwanted. Used running shoes, clunker cars, and out-of-style clothing aren’t something that people actually miss once they’re [...]
Entrepreneurship Surfing is pretty radical, especially when it’s used to transform poor towns into thriving sustainable communities. Dave Aabo is social-entrepreneur surfer-dude using surfing, the gorgeous Peruvian coastline and voluntour ...
In preparation for the 2010 Social Enterprise Summit and World Forum (#SocEnt10) I talked with Mike Del Ponte, founder of social startup incubator Sparkseed. We discussed how to build [...]
It’s about 8PM PST and I’m settling in for a short sleep before I take off back to school in the morning. I’ll be leaving with Ashley Upham from Project [...]
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