The Richest Country has Left Millions Out in the Cold: American Winter
By Tessa Farnsworth Curry America is facing a problem and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. Since the Great Recession in 2008 11.7 million people are still unemployed, we…
The Richest Country has Left Millions Out in the Cold: American Winter
By Tessa Farnsworth Curry America is facing a problem and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. Since the Great Recession in 2008 11.7 million people are still unemployed, we…
You Don’t Have to Go to College to Succeed. Really?
By Ben Thurman In 1997’s big hit, Good Will Hunting, Will Hunting scoffed, “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at…
Share my Dabba: The Tiffin Has Just Become More Social
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Students Take on Social Entrepreneurship Early On
By Adam S. Poswolsky If extreme poverty is going to be eradicated in our lifetime, all sectors of society, especially young people, need to be mobilized. Nourish International, a social…
Don’t Want that Sandwich? Can’t sell it? Don’t throw it away, though!
Dana Frasz is a food entrepreneur. She wants to recycle food, taking the food that’s not consumed and putting it into the hands of those who cannot afford it. She…
Does Bangladesh’s Garment Industry Respect its Workers?
By Nisha Kumar Kulkarni Last month’s garment factory collapse in Savar, outside of Dhaka, is being coined as the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh’s history. Though the police ordered the…
iPads for Schools? Not that simple. Ed-Tech Needs “Design Research.”
Kim Campbell and Hila Mehr Last week, gaming company Zynga announced the launch of a $1M accelerator for educational games in partnership with the NewSchools Venture Fund. Similarly, ed-tech incubator…
Sparking Innovation – in the middle of the Pacific
by Brittany Koteles Unreasonable at Sea (UaS), a first-time collaboration between Unreasonable Institute, Semester at Sea, and Stanford’s d. school, was born with the objective to accelerate companies that are…
Sustainability: Not Just Fashionable
THOUGHTS POST SKOLL WORLD FORUM: When it comes to sustainability, one of the things that has always nagged me about companies that “go green” is that it typically just means…
Crowdfunding Gets Specific: 10 New Platforms
by Brittany Koteles As a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on the explosion of crowdfunding in 2012, here’s a list of new platforms that connect crowdfunding to people, communities, and causes. …
Crowdfunding Capitalism: Likely to Keep Growing in 2013
By Brittany Koteles In 2012, crowdfunding platforms grew 81 percent, while venture capital investments fell for the first time in three years. While I’m not here to forecast the…
5 Talking Points Post Skoll World Forum
by Mark Clayton Hand The Skoll World Forum, the world’s glitziest talking shop on social entrepreneurship and impact investing, is full of conversations. Here are four topics receiving major…
Social Business and Social Fiction: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus
David Bornstein interviewed Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus last week. Here’s part of his conversation. For the full conversation, please go to the Fixes column here. (Photo by Nasir Ali…
Tap for Safety: Circle of 6 to Stop Rape
by Rosie Spinks When Vice President Joe Biden—a longtime opponent of violence against women—announced the Apps Against Abuse technology challenge in 2011, Brooklyn-based filmmaker and activist Nancy Schwartzman knew…
Techy Girls Gaining Ground
By Lindsay Hebert The stereotype “computer geek” carries with it the usual accoutrements: glasses, game consoles and lots of alone time. Even as technology has become ubiquitous through social networks…
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