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 [...]
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) is exactly as it sounds, an incubator for social entrepreneurs. The four-month online and two-week intensive residence program costs approximately $25,000, which is why it would save you quite a bit of cash to apply for this amazing scholarship.
Think of it as over a semester’s worth of social [...]
Some say that the art of storytelling is lost. I think you just need to know where to look — and Changents.com is the perfect place to lend your eyes. Changents is an Internet platform that connects people changing the world with people who help them. They understand that stories can explain complex situations, [...]
Hang in there, college kids, your much-deserved winter break is almost here, but your homework isn’t over yet. The wrath of your professors might momentarily cease, but the challenges that face our world never sleep. If you’re feeling out of energy, tap into your compassion, but either way, find a way to upload your [...]
Youth Service America recently launched the first annual Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards to recognize two young female social entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 17, whose initiatives serve the common good. The awards are created in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her entrepreneurial career when she was a young girl in West Virginia and later [...]
A program of the Starbucks Foundation, the Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants program is designed to help young people realize their natural potential to reinvent their local communities. The program is the primary vehicle through which the Starbucks Foundation invests in communities globally as part of the Starbucks Shared Planet commitment to communities. [...]
In the second part of my interview with Marian Moore, Senior Advisor in Business Development for the social investment fund, Renewal 2, and philanthropic coach, Marian discusses how to move your mission forward as well as the different degrees of activism that come with managing your money. She references Renewal’s Play BIG, a series [...]
As we try to expand the scope of Social Earth and our ability to deliver you quality content, it is my personal goal to start posting more videos and interviews. I am not a videographer by any means, but I have been blessed with a fairly steady hand and I have a lot of [...]
If you haven’t joined the hottest online community for social change, now is a better time than ever. BetterTheWorld.com, a Web site/community that allows users to donate to nonprofits by surfing the Web, recently launched their Final 4 Contest where members can earn $4,000 for their choice charity and an extra $2,000 for their [...]
It is hard to remember the sharper edge of reality when wrapped in the warm cocoon of living abroad. For the better part of each day, I am granted reprieve from having to think about anything except “what shall I have for lunch today?” and “what concerts are on tonight?” The weekends are reserved [...]
This Tuesday, the Department of Energy disbursed the first federal grants for clean technology in ventures that focus on alternative forms of fuel, the development of high density lithium batteries, and a highly-refined smart electrical grid. The $151 million dollars, managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, will go to 37 different [...]
Calling all socially innovative university students! The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students from around the world who want to improve areas of critical human need through innovation. The competition is called the The Dell Social Innovation Competition and aims to help students better the world by improving their skills [...]
There is no doubt that Twitter has turned into a priceless tool to help nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and online activists collaborate, fund raise and share good works.
I’ve written articles about helping children in poverty with Twitter and leveraging Twitter to fund nonprofits and while writing these articles, come across a plethora of great “twools” [...]
