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Social Enterprise
on September 23, 2007
BuzzMachine has a very interesting viewpoint on the so-called impartiality of journalists. Albeit technical and rather thickly written, it definitely poses a very good point.
"There I think we se...
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Social Enterprise
on August 30, 2007
"In New England, the Literacy rate was over 50 percent during the first half of the 17th century, and it rose to 70 percent by 1710. By the time of the American Revolution, it was around 90 perce...
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Social Enterprise
on August 24, 2007
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble - there's a new genetically enhanced bacteria strain that literally craps ethanol at high temperatures. The bacteria strain, called TM242, is particularly special ...
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Social Enterprise
on August 23, 2007
Social Enterprise Magazine has recently added to their website a wonderful 32 page booklet with neat bits of information and fun stories to get people fired up about Social enterprise Day (to be celeb...
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Social Enterprise
on August 17, 2007
It's a gift giver's worst nightmare - giving a gift they consider trash. Well why not just outright give them trash?
It's been said before, one man's trash is another man's treasu...
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Social Enterprise
on August 7, 2007
Being the leanest, greenest brand of them all takes a lot of gumption and know-how. Not only do you have to be highly competitive as a business, but you also have to take care of the social bottom lin...
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Social Enterprise
on July 20, 2007
The largely deplorable state of the U.S. health care system is not going to get much better anytime soon, thanks to the Bush administration. Major reports have been severely compromised or flat out de...
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Social Enterprise
on July 16, 2007
Photo via BoGo website
Now this is an idea founded in sheer genius. First, start off with a really great product - an inexpensive solar powered Flashlight. Then, whenever someone buys one of these fl...
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Social Enterprise
on July 12, 2007
I officially love my bank. The Wachovia Foundation, alongside the MacArthur Foundation and the Opportunity Finance Network just recently teamed up on a $42.5 million endeavor to support community deve...
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Social Enterprise
on July 10, 2007
When nature calls, did you ever stop to think Mother Earth may be asking you to nourish her? The recycling and cleansing of human excrement from the water supply may well give a lot of people jobs, bu...
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Social Enterprise
on June 16, 2007
Gosh I love bureaucracies. All that pretty red tape is just so inspiring.
Here's the scenario. A faith-based non-profit gets the U.S. government to donate two Coast Guard cutters to support the n...
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Social Enterprise
on June 14, 2007
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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Social Enterprise
on May 5, 2007
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 my...
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Social Enterprise
on May 3, 2007
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 fa...
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Social Enterprise
on April 29, 2007
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 - w...
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Social Enterprise
on April 27, 2007
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. Unfo...
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Social Enterprise
on April 26, 2007
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 in...
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Social Enterprise
on January 8, 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.
Soc...
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on January 8, 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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Social Enterprise
on January 1, 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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Social Enterprise
on December 30, 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 thr...
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Social Enterprise
on December 28, 2006
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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Social Enterprise
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 toil...
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Social Enterprise
on December 17, 2006
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 exci...
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Social Enterprise
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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Social Enterprise
on December 4, 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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Social Enterprise
on November 22, 2006
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 ca...
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Social Enterprise
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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Social Enterprise
on November 16, 2006
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 pi...
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Social Enterprise
on November 6, 2006
(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 GlobalK...
