It's a long standing belief of mine that employees of a company hold an equitable amount of responsibility, per their position, as the company does for how it conducts itself, with regards to the...
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As reported by Reuters, by 2025 about one third of the world's population will be scraping for water, according to The United Nations Human Development Report for 2006 [pdf]. I read the report...
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I keep running into the same problem - where are all the real, unbiased, credible facts? Between the press being censored by the government, and so-called news on the television being flooded with...
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Coming to a Borders near you, may be a group of young entrepreneurs singing the praises of social change. Well, they've played on street corners too. When asked what their main goal is, their -...
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When running a social enterprise, it can be difficult measuring the success of your social bottom line. World Public Opinion seems to have an answer - at the very least for mainstream news media....
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Social entrepreneurships, now more than ever, have their work cut out for them. With a good portion of the world at war - with themselves, with others, within their own governments - it is becoming...
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by on January 08, 2007
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs has a great listing of definitions, 22 in all, of words and phrases that frequently come up when discussing social entrepreneurship. See here for the list....
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by on January 08, 2007
Lets the Shaftesbury Partnership explain ... There are two main types of social entrepreneur (though on rare occasions both types can appear in one person): community social entrepreneurs and system...
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by on January 01, 2007
Leif Utne gives kudos to WorldChanging at the Huffington Post: With a small, global team, Worldchanging began showcasing daily content about new ideas, innovations and inventions that were changing...
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by on December 29, 2006
Springwise has a nice year end review of the top ten eco business ideas of 2006 for anyone who hasn't seen this yet. Here's a quick run-down. 1. Hybrid cars. 2. Consumer generated power...
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You've got to love the work Future-Making Serious Games is doing covering the social/educational gaming world. I hadn't really heard much about these types of games until the past few months,...
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by on December 18, 2006
I saw a mention of this on Global Voices and thought I'd point it out here. Rama, a social planner in Calcutta has an idea called the "Toilet Bus" that would bring portable sanitary...
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Registration is now open for the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference on March 4, 2007. The 2007 Social Enterprise Conference is a forum for sharing ideas to create a better world. We are in an...
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by on December 11, 2006
4NonProfits links to all of the winners of the Fast Company/Monitor Group 'Social Capitalists' for 2007 on their blog a few days ago. Quite a list to check out with lots of familiar names, but...
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by on December 04, 2006
A nice story here about a blind boy in India who has developed a software program called Brailleface, which converts braille commands into Devanagari script. Assistive technology like screen readers...
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A week or so ago we highlighted the game Ayiti: The Cost of Life that puts players in the place of a family trying to make a living in Haiti. Well, I've just come across another game, this time...
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by on November 21, 2006
I haven't done a ton of posting on social entrepreneurs lately, but thought I should at least give a mention that Kyle Zimmer of First Book has been named the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur...
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Today is National Social Enterprise Day in the UK. Didn't know that they had one. It's actually part of Social Enterprise Week, which you can find out more about here. The BBC had a feature...
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(Pic from Haiti Health) Well, I've never heard of games like this, but it's pretty fascinating coming across the concept. Via Pienso and Still Haven't Found. The game comes from...
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I received word yesterday that nominations are now open for the 2007 Purpose Prize, an award the recognizes innovation among older social innovators as well as a new award honoring nonprofits and...
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The Financial Times on social enterprise, with a special focus on GreenWorks: When HSBC relocated to its headquarters in Canary Wharf from more than 20 offices around London, it had 50,000 pieces of...
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by on October 22, 2006
I've been away in Seattle for a few days so haven't had any time to blog. That means I do have quite a backlog of news items to post though, so here's a bit of a cleaning job of some......
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