After four years of unsuccessfully petitioning for 501c3 non-profit status, co-founder and CEO, Casey Fenton, has announced that the popular online traveler’s community, CouchSurfing, will move to embrace the B [...]
Eureka! Asia’s Largest Business Plan Competition launched on 1st Sept ‘11 Eureka! is the International Business plan competition organized by IIT Bombay. It aims to create value in the ecosystem [...]
If you could reduce your product packaging costs by 38% while offering a more sustainable solution to your customers, would you think twice? Many companies are taking bold steps to [...]
Last month, the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint released a study showing that two-thirds of the nonprofit Executive Directors they surveyed were planning on leaving their current job within five years. [...]
Save a Tree! Save a Whale! Save your breath. Today’s consumer is too socially savvy to be impressed by companies who simply write a check to a cause whose mission [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I was in college and who I am now, mostly in relation to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and where I stand on [...]
Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head, but if you talk to him in his language, that [...]
Many of us social bravehearts work in pretty tough countries, countries where it is easy to get frustrated by the magnitude of the problems they face…so I want to share [...]
We’ve all had the “What is social entrepreneurship?” discussion. The topic was even the recent focus of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s cover article. Yet the definitions we apply to social [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. How do you explain something that your listener doesn’t understand? Put it in their own terms. Relate to [...]
Scarcity can be a very nasty thing. People war over scarce resources: oil, water, investment capital. For social entrepreneurs and impact investors, the war is not life-or-death, but it often [...]
Here’s something short and sweet to cure you of your workaholic blues during the recession. These four Ghanian postal workers use the sounds of their machinery to demonstrate how to [...]
It seems like once a year, the famous left-wing comedian John Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, gets angry enough to light a fire under one of his counterparts [...]
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