The International Renewable Energy Agency or IRENA was established January 26th, 2009. On June 29th the 136 panel of member-states (22 of which signed up that day) voted in Egypt, and [...]
A few days ago, Erik and I had the amazing opportunity to interview Esra’a Al Shafei, founder of Mideast Youth (MEY), an organization whose mission is to: “inspire and provide [...]
Today, President Obama gave his much anticipated address to the Muslim world during his trip throughout the Middle East and Europe. Obama’s objective of the speech was to improve relations between [...]
The future is here, Masdar City plans to be the model for the world to follow by being the planet’s first carbon neutral, zero waste city, powered by 100% renewable [...]
Today, we wanted to pay tribute to the absolutely amazing work that Kiva has done during the past 3+ years. Kiva, Swahili for unity or agreement was founded by Matt [...]
While we may take clean water for granted, there are hundreds of millions of people around our world who are short of this basic necessity. In 1992, the United Nations [...]
Twitter is here to stay. In the past few months site usage has increased dramatically, over 55% from January 2009 to February 2009. Users include Barrack Obama, CNN, and TechCrunch. [...]
“Ashoka envisions a world where everyone is a change maker: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal [...]
Each year Harvard Business School in cooperation with the Kennedy School of Government hosts an annual Social Enterprise Conference. While we did not have a first row seat at the [...]
Lift Kids is a Minnesota-based non-profit organization taking action on the plight of impoverished children via a philanthropic franchise model centered on what they call a Lift Kids Village. By [...]
The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop"
What is a social business? That is a good question that we have heard from numerous people. We address this question in this post. Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus (pictured above) [...]
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