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.
Everyday changemakers are addressing the hard questions of local, national and global quandaries. This weekly article accentuates those individuals and organizations creating systematic and lasting change through social entrepreneurship and enterprise. This week we have stories of students, awards and Globalizers.
Students for Microfinance: Loaning and Consulting To Empower Entrepreneurs Near and Far
Crystal Yan attended the Microfinance USA 2010 Conference as one of more than 200 student conference attendees and sat in on “Student-Led Microfinance Clubs”, a panel of individuals working to empower students to be a part of the microfinance movement. Click to read more.
Conversation with Ashoka Globalizer Fellow Steve Collins
Collins is an Ashoka Fellow from Ireland and also a 2010 Ashoka Globlizer Fellow. Steve has revolutionized community-based therapeutic care of Severe Acute Malnutrition through ready-to-use food and more effective distribution. His organizations Valid International and Valid Nutrition have spread the system internationally and reach 1 million children.
Social Entrepreneurship With $600, 40 Men and Four Days
Learn about the story of 19-year-old social entrepreneur Bianca Griffith, who at the moment is taking time out from college to build a small six cottage eco-hotel along the west coast of Africa, in Gambia.
Six Finalists Named in 2010 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards
Six inspiring individuals from varying areas of society working to drive social change have been nominated as finalists in this year’s Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards Programme.
Skoll Foundation Commits $10 Million to Support Social Innovation Fund
The Skoll Foundation announced today it is committing $10 million over two years to support the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a new competitive grant program housed at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Does Social Entrepreneurship Have an Ambition Problem?
Change.org blogger and social entrepreneur Nathaniel Whittemore judged the final round of the Stanford BASES Social E-Challenge, but was unimpressed at almost every single presentation. “I thought that the startups were under-reaching,” he said.
