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.
Ashoka Launches Globalizer
After 30 years of developing the field of Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka is taking our next step: working intensively with a carefully-selected group of 25 Ashoka Fellows to assist them to “go global” and capturing and disseminating the knowledge created to assist other social entrepreneurs to scale up their innovations to reach to scale of the challenges they address.
EB-6: The Proposed Social Entrepreneur Immigration Visa
The majority of immigrants come to the United States with a dream and very little money to make it on. Instead of starting on the streets, what if all they needed was a big idea and their financial security could then be petitioned for? Ashley Dresser of SocialEarth discusses this further.
TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie Discusses Social Entrepreneurship
Jeff Slobotski had the opportunity to interview Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes. “Blake has an amazing story of how he’s built the TOMS Shoes name into an internationally recognized social entrepreneurship success story.” Jeff blogs.
New Frontiers for the Social Entrepreneurship API
“As a collaboration working to provide better access to information about social entrepreneurs, the Social Entrepreneurship API is a testimonial to how far the field’s come. It’s also an example of how far it has to go.” Nathaniel Whittemore writes.
Microsoft Community Affairs: Power Found in Partnership
Amy Carol Wolff blogs about her experience with the Microsoft Community Affairs team in Redmond, WA.
YBCA Premieres Global Lives Project
Take a peek into the Global Lives Project, an ongoing video library that documents 24 continuous hours in the lives of ten people from around the world, intended to represent the diversity of our world population.
Business Plan Essentials for Social Entrepreneurs
Watch this recorded webinar for social entrepreneurs, small business owners who want to add “people and planet” benefits to their bottom line and those thinking about making a difference through business.
Technologies that Solve Social Problems
Developing technologies that solve the right problems can be enormously challenging, and then bringing them to the people who need them even more so. Social entrepreneurs from around the world met in Hyderabad earlier this month to share what they have learned about the challenges and successes of technological innovation to serve the poor. Join the discussion at SocialEdge.
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