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Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant

Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant

The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet.
Throughout the decades, one word has lasted to describe the unadulterated creative capacity of humanity: awesome. In a world increasingly overrun by the mundane, ordinary, and co-opted, who will defend the legacy of this essential quality?
The Awesome Foundation for Arts and [...]

There is 1 Item in Your Worldchanging Shopping Cart

There is 1 Item in Your Worldchanging Shopping Cart

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 [...]

Blog for Me and Win Tickets and Accommodations To The 11th Annual Social Enterprise Summit in San Francisco

Blog for Me and Win Tickets and Accommodations To The 11th Annual Social Enterprise Summit in San Francisco

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 advisor to GreatNonprofits.org.
On April 28th, 600 [...]

Re:char – One Farm’s Trash is Another Farm’s Treasure

Re:char – One Farm’s Trash is Another Farm’s Treasure

A Maniacal Question… For a Good Cause

A Maniacal Question… For a Good Cause

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 [...]

10 Free Things Every New Social Entrepreneur Should Have

10 Free Things Every New Social Entrepreneur Should Have

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 advisor to GreatNonprofits.org.
A successful social entrepreneur [...]

The Social Enterprise Conference: Reflections on Service

The Social Enterprise Conference: Reflections on Service

Emily Wren is a first year student at the Harvard Business School. An engineer by training, she studied at Duke University where she worked with the Duke chapter of Engineers Without Borders. She is currently the Media Co-Director for the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference.
At one of those inevitably awkward “meet-and-greets” for the [...]

How-to: An Insider’s Look at the L3C and What it Could Mean For You and Your Social Enterprise

How-to: An Insider’s Look at the L3C and What it Could Mean For You and Your Social Enterprise

The following is a guest post by Rick Zwetsch, Principal Partner at interSector Partners, L3C.
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There’s been a fair amount written about the L3C recently. We’re seeing the gamut from people over-the-top excited about the possibilities of this innovative, hybrid business model to pundits dismissing the L3C as a mediocre solution to anything at [...]

How-to: Move From Tweeps to Peeps: Nodal Networking for Social Innovators

How-to: Move From Tweeps to Peeps: Nodal Networking for Social Innovators

The following is a guest post by Sidney Hargro, change evangelist, at www.innovate2uplift.net. Twitter: (@changeevnglst).

While spending the week in the city of brotherly love, I had the grand opportunity to meet with Katherina Rosqueta, Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the [...]

#Mifimon: Social Media, Text Messaging, and Microfinance

#Mifimon: Social Media, Text Messaging, and Microfinance

The following is a guest post by Amy Carol Wolff, who is an Intern at Opportunity International and Imagine This! TV.

As the microfinance market continues to develop in both area reach and method, Opportunity International has engaged several leading microfinance minds in conversation on Twitter. Through a live discussion called Microfinance Monday (#mifimon), microfinance [...]

Socially Conscious Book Club (Week 3): Leaving Microsoft to Change the World- Guest Post by Rehab Chougle

The following is a guest post by Rehab Chougle, an engineer by profession and writer by choice. She resides in Mumbai, India and writes on topics within social entrepreneurship, politics and book reviews. Someday, Rehab hopes to publish a novel of her own.

It is remarkable… the kind of passion one man can have, to [...]


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