Singapore International Foundation has been around since 1991 carving out greater community understanding on the western seaboard, but this year marks the first time they’ve instituted a camp for young, aspiring social entrepreneurs. In partnership with Volans Asia, they’ve launched a three-day camp at the YWCA Fort Canning Lodge in Singapore to cultivate the [...]
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 [...]
If you haven’t heard of the Unreasonable Institute, you will. The Unreasonable Institute attracts, incubates, and finances young social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to change the world. Dan, Teju, Vladimir, and Tyler – the founders of Unreasonable – exploded onto the scene less than one year ago. Since then, they have achieved milestones that [...]
As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits and Atoms lab crew. It took over seven years for the World Bank to deliver on its promise of some wireless internet access and that was seven years to get [...]
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.
Social Entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum
Of all of the world’s gatherings, none has a higher-power attendee list than the World Economic Forum. It’s a [...]
Today is the last day to send in your nominations for Civic Ventures annual Purpose Prize, dedicated to people over the age of 60. If you know a senior who has taken advantage of their retirement to change the world for the better, you can nominate them to receive a cash prize of either [...]
Entrepreneurship
Ocean Robbins’ father grew up swimming in an ice cream cone shaped pool and surrounded by the luxuries afforded by owning the world’s largest ice cream company. After seeing the effects of the corporate world on his family, Ocean’s dad left behind the 31-flavor fortune of Baskin Robbins to live a life in a [...]
We sometimes assume a person’s class by the visual assessment that takes place in an encounter that may take all but a couple of seconds. If we see someone that is sleeping on the street, we assume that they are homeless. There are many levels of economic status in this day and age. The [...]
My notoriously unsleeved laptop has seen its fair share of abuse, but it knows nothing in comparison to the approximately 17,000 people who are sex-trafficked into the United States each year. Laptop dents and scratches and the plight of sex-trafficked women might seem completely unrelated and a somewhat insensitive correlation to make, but due [...]
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 25 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
