48 participants representing 17 countries converged upon Colorado State University on July 7th, 2010 to kick off the fourth annual International Development Design Summit (IDDS). IDDS aims to produce innovative, scalable technologies and enterprises to meet the very real needs of the 2.6 billion people earning less than $2-a-day. For this year’s Summit, the focus [...]
The following article was written by Olivia Khalili of the Cause Capitalism blog. The concept is simple and brilliant. When I came across Living Goods, my stomach flipped with the potential impact of the organization’s work. The mechanisms, intent and appeal match that of blockbuster social enterprises Kiva and charity: water. Living Goods replicates Avon’s [...]
The following is a guest post by Maria Hayden. Maria heads public relations at Compass Partners and is enrolled as a junior in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. What are 60 Georgetown University students doing to making a difference? Inspiring, enabling and sustaining a new generation of socially conscious entrepreneurs through a one-of-a-kind social venture [...]
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. New digital tools like Chatroulette, Twitter, and Foursquare are incredible new ways to connect people, but sharing info like location and identity can compromise safety – even landing you in jail (or worse) in countries that restrict free expression. Nonetheless, the [...]
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 can certainly bring light to the ones that don’t make the front pages of the Times, it can be hard to cut through the inundation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Social Enterprise [...]
The following is a guest post by Rick Zwetsch, Principal Partner at interSector Partners, L3C. —– 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 [...]
