If you’re seeking a convenient and practical means of living healthier, consider doing so through supporting a food company which abides by greener principles, Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods recently [...]
Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, leads major initiatives aimed at reducing global poverty, improving the health of the least adv ...
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 f ...
In my spare time during the past three weeks, one of the books I’ve been reading is “A World Without Poverty,” by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. To say ...
Help us congratulate and celebrate Acumen Fund on their 8th Anniversary, today, April 1 2009. During the past eight years, the organization has invested over $40 million in social [...]
Last week, I attended a presentation by Tarun Khanna, professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. His presentation focused on microfinance, a theme in his new book, “Billions of Entrepreneurs: [...]
United Prosperity isn’t just another non-profit organization asking for your hard earned cash with little oversight to ensure your dollar is actually contributing to solving a social ill. Instead, it [...]
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 [...]
If you’re familiar with Acumen Fund, you know these change makers genuinely understand, appreciate and support social entrepreneurship. With a unique, patient capital approach to venture investment, Acumen Fund is [...]
“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 [...]
Based in San Francisco, Sustainble Global Sourcing is a social venture focused on women’s economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. They help women lift themselves out of poverty by partnering with [...]
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