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February 3, 2012, No comments

Retail shelves are already lined with a sea of red and pink, hearts and chocolates, stuffed teddy bears and any other consumer product that will make some lucky person`s heart [...]

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There’s No Such Thing as Too Poor To Earn

January 12, 2012, 1 Comment

The Stanford Social Innovation Review states that there are 1.4 billion households around the world that live on less than $1.25 a day due to their in ...

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30 Social Entrepreneurs That Didn’t Make the Forbes List

December 5, 2011, 4 Comments

Dwight Peters is a Social Entrepreneur and the founder of QuarterWaters. He interviews successful Social Entrepreneurs to learn how they did it. You ...

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If A Man Falls in the Forest, Does Anyone Hear?

May 30, 2011, No comments

The bodies of Da Silva and Do Espirito Santo are carried to their final resting place – Photo: Boing Boing In his Tedx Amazonia talk this year, ...

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    2010 Argentina TOMS Shoe Drop
    December 23, 2010, 8 Comments

    After missing the fifth largest blizzard in Twin Cities’ recorded history by a day (a 17.1-inch, airport-closing snowstorm), I arrived in Iguazu, Argentina through Buenos Aires on Sunday, December 12. [...]

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    My First TOMS Shoe Drop
    December 10, 2010, 8 Comments

    In two hours I depart the frozen winter tundra of Minnesota for a trip of a lifetime — a TOMS Shoe Drop. This will be my first volunteer trip, but [...]

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    Social Entrepreneur Surfer Dude Puts WAVES to Good Work
    April 8, 2010, 4 Comments

    Entrepreneurship Surfing is pretty radical, especially when it’s used to transform poor towns into thriving sustainable communities. Dave Aabo is social-entrepreneur surfer-dude using surfing, the gorgeous Peruvian coastline and voluntour ...

  • The Importance of Self-Reliance
    March 4, 2010, 10 Comments

    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 [...]