Crowdfunding can be an absolute game changer for social ventures. It was for Kinyei, who raised $18,000 to drive social entrepreneurship in Cambodia, and it was for Sock Monkeys Against Cancer, [...]
SoJo, short for Social Journal, is today announcing the launch of its public Beta. SoJo is an online learning tool that supports youth passionate abou ...
Eureka! Asia’s Largest Business Plan Competition launched on 1st Sept ‘11 Eureka! is the International Business plan competition organized by ...
A different version of this essay ran in The Line’s July 13th 2011 issue. – What does “Better Together” mean to you? That was the door ...
Composed by Michael Norton, co-founder of Buzzbnk, the crowdfunding platform for social ventures. This is part one of a three part series. Just Give Me the Money: learning from Bob [...]
by Michael Norton, co-founder of Buzzbnk, the crowdfunding platform for social ventures: www.buzzbnk.org Can grass-roots services be developed for the poor using an enterprise model? If so, this would generate [...]
Start Some Good is a social venture that connects social entrepreneurs with the financial and intellectual capital they need to transform an idea for improving the world into a reality. [...]
When 2011 began, it started with an all-time high in the price of wheat in the United Kingdom. Food riots in Algeria were quickly followed by high food-inflation rates in [...]
As the EPCON 2010: Engaged Philanthropy Conference ticked away excitement began to fill the air. The winner for the 2010 Social Entrepreneurs Cup — an award celebrating Minnesota’s most innovative [...]
On Wednesday I sat down with Brad Brown, the executive director of Social Venture Partners Minnesota, to discuss EPCON 2011: The Engaged Philanthropy Conference, an annual event in Minneapolis focusing [...]
As a blogger focusing on social entrepreneurship and technology, I run across a plethora of resources for funding — one thing that most social ventures can’t get enough of. After [...]
The following is a guest post by Maria Hayden. Maria heads public relations at Compass Partners and is enrolled as a junior in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. What are [...]
Over the last 30 years Ashoka has been enabling early-stage social entrepreneurs to follow their dreams. This network of Ashoka Fellows has become one of the largest and most supportive [...]
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