This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship.
Skoll Foundation Announces New Investments in Leading Global Innovators
This week The Skoll Foundation this week announced its most recent investments in social entrepreneurs driving large-scale change on critical issues around the globe.
Changemakers 2.5 Web Site Launched this Week
After months of research, consultations, design and building, Ashoka has launched Changemakers 2.5, the roll-up of all the changes we have made for the Powered by Changemakers white label site.
Meet the Contest-Winning 2010 Social Enterprise Summit Bloggers
An arts consultant from Tasmania (Kylie Eastley) meets a social enterprise blogger from Midwest U.S.A. (me). Follow us over the next couple of weeks as we blog before, during and after the Social Enterprise Summit + World Forum in San Francisco.
Four Villanova Social Entrepreneurs will Present for a Chance at $10,000
The University of Washington, Tufts University, Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin all have yearly Social Entrepreneurship competitions in place to spur social innovation into action on college campuses. You can now add the University of Villanova to the list.
MANA Part 2: The Art of Fundraising for a Start-Up
Amy Carol Wolff of SocialEarth takes us inside Mother Administrative Nutritive Aid (MANA), an organization that aims to be a fully sustainable producer of ready-to-use-therapeutic-food by 2012.
Check out the videos submitted in Ashoka’s Everyone A Changemaker video contest
38 films were submitted on the GeniusRocket platform. A winner will be announced early next week.
