(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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(From the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance) Not that it left our minds entirely, but we haven't put up much lately about microfinance isssues. So today's post concentrates on microfinance,...
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My good friend Mette sent along this information for our readers about a Danish delegation visit to Stanford University on Thursday, June 1st from 9:00 to 11:25 a.m. to promote the opening of...
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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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Filed in archive Social Enterprise
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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by mstandaert on May 23, 2006
Okay, so this is a bit off topic, but I thought I'd share these pictures anyway. Last week I was driving around on Highway 1 in Big Sur when I came around a bend and found six California Condors...
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(Photo from Earth Voice) First the good news ... *Texas has plans for the largest offshore wind farm in the U.S.: Texas officials announced plans Thursday for the nation's largest offshore wind...
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(Photo from Solar Views) Before I get to the links to books and publications, please remember to vote in the Audeamus Social Entrepreneur Awards Round #3. We don't have any voters yet. Now to the...
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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 mstandaert on May 17, 2006
(Picture from CSR Europe) *In a version of an article for Ethical Corporation, my compatriot at Euro-correspondent.com, Stephen Gardner, looks at the launch of the European Alliance for CSR. No...
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(Photo from the UN Capital Development Fund) Clearing out some of my links on microfinance stories here today. *First, from the PSD Blog, a note on a story from the Wall Street Journal over the...
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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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by mstandaert on May 12, 2006
(Map from CNN) I'd put something in my post below on this but somehow it disappeared ... So I was looking at this map that goes along with the Failed States Index provided by Foreign Policy...
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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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(Picture from Out Beyond Ideas) Kind of busy here today, but I thought I'd troll through some of my recommended links for stories, as well as clean out some of my backlog of stories and links from...
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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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(Photo from the World Bank) I've been slowly gathering links on microfinance and in that process I started to wonder how defined those words 'microfinance' and 'microcredit' and...
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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 YPSA) Back to sustainable development to start the week, but first we'll take a step back with this essay on the World Bank which has been the leading purveyor of top-heavy development...
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