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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 UNESCO) Not in a very energetic writing mood today, so here's a round-up of sustainable development news for you today: *World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz merges infrastructure and...
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by mstandaert on June 28, 2006
(Camtasia at TechSmith) The following is an advertisement from one of our sponsors at Creative Weblogging, TechSmith. TechSmith's Camtasia Studio Earns Award of Excellence from Technology &...
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(Picture from GTZ) Here are a number of links to microcredit resources in the USA that I've been holding for a while, but wasn't sure what to do with. Often when we think of microfinance we...
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From my compatriot at Euro-correspondent.com: The European Commission likes to blow its green trumpet. A recent climate change campaign launch was only slightly undermined by Commission president...
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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 mstandaert on June 23, 2006
(From The Economist) From PR Web: Pfizer, Gap and fireman's Fund were among the nine corporations that took home the highly-coveted PR News award for outstanding Corporate Social Responsibility....
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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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(Picture from Yvonne Bynoe) First off this week is an annoucement of the "Agent of Change Award" established by activist and writer Yvonne Bynoe in association with Soft Skull Press. You can...
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(Picture from Changemakers) I was browsing around Case Place to look at BOP case studies and thought I would share some of the more interesting and accessible ones I find from time to time. Not all...
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(Photo from Europa) An interesting press release here from World Wire about a company called Carbon Diversion, that converts low and high tech waste into carbon products with the potential to reduce...
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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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(Photo from the OPEC Fund) Tomorrow I should have another profile of a social entrepreneurial project I visited in Hyderabad, India this past March called Teen Channel. In the meantime, here are a few...
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by mstandaert on June 17, 2006
(Photo from the University of Michigan) Not a ton of time to post here today, so here's a roundup of CSR news of the past week or two. *A Norwegian pension fund has thrown down the gauntlet to the...
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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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(Picture from the University of Bath) A simple link purge for your Sunday. Most of these are on sustainable development happenings, conferences or news: *Haiti sure could use it's share of help....
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(From Shama, Inc.) Here's an update on books and resources in the fields of social entrepreneurship and international development. Prior 'Great Reads' can be found here and here. If you...
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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 USAID) On Sunday I caught the tail end of a World Debate on the BBC World Service where they were talking about microfinance issues in Africa. You can find the full show here at the BBC...
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by mstandaert on June 02, 2006
(Picture from McGrigors) Not a lot of time to post anything in great depth today, so here are a number of recent stories in CSR news ... *Are companies really finding it pays to have a social...
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