(Photo from Don Phelps) First off, a reminder that we need some more people to vote in the most recent Audeamus awards, something I'm doing here to highlight social entrepreneurs. Second, I'm...
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by on June 30, 2006
(Picture from Newsweek) The latest Newsweek profiles 15 people who make America great, including two under-25 social entrepreneurs, Benita Singh and Ruth Degolia, founders of Mercado Global, a...
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(Picture from RecycleBank) The blog Social Entrepreneur points us to this social enterprise in Philadelphia called RecycleBank. There's also a video story on it at NBC, via the RecycleBank page....
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by on June 22, 2006
(Picture from Changemakers) This week HeathCliff Rothman of FilmYourIssue bows out and Gillian Caldwell of Witness takes over as the Audeamus social entrepreneur that advances to this round. But there...
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by on June 20, 2006
I promised another profile on social entrepreneurs I had the chance to visit while in India, so here's another: Teen Channel. There are no links to them, though supposedly they have a website. I...
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by on June 15, 2006
(From Exceptional Lives) I came across a wonderful blog the other day called Exceptional Lives, by Clare Mulvany, who is currently traveling the world on a ten-month journey interviewing world...
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by on June 13, 2006
(Picture from University of Wisconsin - Stout) Here's something we've been following for a month or so now. I'd included HeathCliff Rothman, founder of Film Your Issue, in our social...
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by on June 08, 2006
(Picture from Pace) Haven't done this for a few weeks, basically since we had no votes in the last round of this "contest." It's really not much of a contest, but mainly to highlight...
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(Photo from the Edinburgh International Book Festival) Recently I profiled a venture called Creative Capital which supports creative artists by using a hybrid profit/nonprofit structure. I also...
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(Photo from Syscor) One of my readers sent along a link to this company, PowerSource. Because of a start-up project the foundation I work for is involved with using biomass energy in rural Sri Lanka,...
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by on May 24, 2006
(Photo from LifeStraw, via Social ROI). A number of stories, articles and links to highlight today. I should have a few new articles instead of these massive link drops soon. I'll be looking at a...
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(Photo from Creative Capital) Throughout history artists and writers have often enjoyed the patronage of aristocrats, the monied and others willing to fund their ventures. Today it seems there's...
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by on May 13, 2006
(Photo from Ashoka) Last week we had four social entrepreneurs up for the vote, with HeathCliff Rothman coming out on top with two votes as the SE of the week. For those seeing this for the first...
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(Photo from Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley) There's an article up at REDF which examines the simmering debate that has been going on in the nonprofit sector about whether philanthropies should take on...
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In March while I was in Hyderabad, India working on documenting a project the foundation I work for is involved with, we made a number of excursions to see social entrepreneurial and social...
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(Photo from AME Info) It's been a bit busier than I thought it would be this week, so the profiles I'd like to do of a few of the social entrepreneurs I met in Hyderabad will have to wait...
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by on May 02, 2006
(Photo from PBS) Before getting to this week's social entrepreneurship awards, it should be noted that PBS has a program out on social entrepreneurs called The New Heroes, which will air this...
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(Photo from Heriot Watt University) I'll start off the week here with a round up of links to stories mainly on social enterprise, and move into a bit more focused posts over the next few days....
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by on April 17, 2006
(Picture from Herra) Okay, so I only had two people vote in our first Robin Hood Awards, and they each voted for two different people. An appalling turnout, or simply a statistical dead tie, it's...
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(Photo from Totally Absurd) Large blue machines at the end of a 300-metre long tunnel in a hillside in central Oslo use fridge technology to suck heat from the sewer and transfer it to a network of...
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by on April 13, 2006
Over the next few weeks I'll share some profiles of social entrepreneurs I visited during my trip to India in March. For the first one, I had the opportunity to visit the campus at the THRIVE...
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by on April 12, 2006
View image (Cartoon from BVCA, though not sure if they have the copyright either) Seeing this cartoon above, I name this award half sarcastically. Robbing the rich to feed the poor? Fighting against...
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(Photo from GreenWorks) My inbox is full of stories on social enterprise. This week I'd like to highlight some specific cases in social entrepreneurship, so in the meantime, here are a number of...
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by on April 07, 2006
(Photo - University of Guelph) In her essay on retirees taking up environmental advocacy at the Columbia Daily Tribune, Ann Gowans offers up good advice for those seeking further enrichment in their...
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