This post introduces a weekly partner post with Ashoka’s Change Insight blog. I’ll be covering the top highlights from the vast world of social entrepreneurship and the innovative goodness that stews within. Here are this week’s stories:
Volunteer for Haiti Without Leaving Your Home
A great resource piece by Nathaniel Whittemore on how people can support the relief effort in Haiti via two platforms where volunteer information is key.
Deadline for the Regional Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Competition
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is currently accepting applications for the 2010 Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2010.
A Fair World: A Documentary For Conscious Capitalism
With the help of Ashoka Thailand, Deltree, a creative film studio based in New Orleans, and Feelgoodz, a conscious flip-flop brand based in New Orleans, aim to create a documentary on Fair Trade that illustrates a new way of doing business and moves you to act.
Invest in Me, Take my Equity
If you were offered equity in someone’s life earnings for an unrestricted infusion of cash today, would you? That is exactly what the Thrust Fund hopes to accomplish by offering investors and social entrepreneurs a platform to meet each other and perform these investments.
OpenAction.org – Can Technology Marketize “Traditional” Development?
Using a Google Maps mashup, OpenAction’s “Action Map” visualizes the location of projects that end-users add to the site. If you, as an interested browser, identify a project you like, you can quickly pull up more information about the project itself as well as the organization behind it.
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