Now we have a problem. On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the tiny island nation of Haiti. Just a month and a half later, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the South American country of Chile. Death tolls in Haiti have now climbed well over 150,000 while Chile has reached at [...]
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 [...]
Social reality game designer, Jane McGonigal, has been proving to the world for awhile now that video games don’t have to be a waste of time and on March 3rd, with the debut of her latest work, EVOKE, she’s going to do it again.
EVOKE is like SIMS on steriods. You think it’s difficult raising [...]
Back in December, I came across Mr. Alex Cone, the marketing manager for MANA Nutrition, on twitter. He was tweeting about this organization that will tackle severe acute malnutrition with an innovative social business model producing ready-to-use-therapeutic-food (RUTF). After speaking with Cone about the process of being a start-up organization, I proposed a project [...]
Harvard business graduate, Mark McGlade, is the entrepreneur sitting behind the helm of the latest social enterprise platform called Zoosa. Still in its beta phase, McGlade’s idea is to put an extra twist on the popularity of “Corporate Social Responsibility” and make it personal. Zoosa’s mission is to act as a venue that highlights [...]
Dear Pessimist,
I know it’s not okay to push my ideas on other people. I know not everyone thinks the same, but lately, it’s been hard holding my tongue. Every once in awhile I run into you – in the street, at a party or in the gym and I’m amazed you’re still holding on. [...]
When I watch the shiny, intent faces of my Basque students as they stumble awkwardly over their English vocabulary in thick accents, it’s impossible to fathom that any of them could become a serious danger to society. Granted, they have to barricade the ground floor of windows to prevent the weekend prowlers from making [...]
45% of people in the United States like their jobs. That’s the depressing conclusion of a recent Conference Board survey on job satisfaction.
Of course, the percentage would surely be much higher if the Conference Board was only measuring employees of non-profits or social enterprises, right? There, the sense of purpose and mission drives people [...]
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 [...]
It’s often said that 1+1=3…or 11, or 100. Or some other number greater than 2. But can 1+1=1.5, or even -1?
Android’s Awkward Ecosystem
In case you’ve missed it, there is a lot of buzz building around Google’s (and HTC’s) coming release of an optimized Google Phone called Nexus One.
Of course, there are already lots of [...]
Understanding human relationships is an essential part of being a successful businessman and a socially conscious individual. You need people to sustain your business and you need your business to sustain the right people. It’s cyclical and therefore, it sounds relatively easy, right? It’s not. Just as there is a myriad of ways to [...]
At Social Earth, our intent behind running a web blog that highlights social enterprise and humanitarian good is for our readers to experience the epiphany: “other people are doing it, I can too”. Unfortunately, in specializes our content, we also run the risk of readers making the realization: “other people are doing it, so [...]
Yesterday I looked at reasons to be skeptical of metrics, which carry inherent dangers. However, that is not to say that metrics should be thrown out. Measures of your organization and its performance provide hugely valuable information when done well. Here are four tips for making the most of your metrics.
Let [...]
