FIAPS: Enlisting recent graduates to professionalize a new breed of schools in India
Oglethorpe University graduate Ember Melcher recently left for Hyderabad, India on a new fellowship program designed to support the development of private schools in India. But these private schools only…
Big Ideas: Alan Khazei on reevaluating the roles of government and citizenship
In our Big Ideas series, we check in regularly with top thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they’re working on, what questions they’re wrestling with,…
Garden State law invites consumers to sell solar energy
As the sun shines across the Garden State, one beam slices down into Rockaway, New Jersey, striking a massive new solar panel installation. Neither prompted by federal stimulus dollars nor…
Twitter Roundup – August 27: Banning plastic bags in Mexico, renewed land conservation efforts in the US, and the Internet saves a few soles
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: From the city…
Q&A with #SummerImpact winner Chris Gordon
Earlier this month we launched our #SummerImpact contest where we asked you, our faithful readers, to tweet what you’d be doing this summer to make a social impact. We got…
Q&A with #SummerImpact winner Marianne Gadeberg
Earlier this month we launched our #SummerImpact contest where we asked you, our faithful readers, to tweet what you’d be doing this summer to make a social impact. We got…
Q&A with #SummerImpact winner Sarah Press
Earlier this month we launched our #SummerImpact contest where we asked you, our faithful readers, to tweet what you’d be doing this summer to make a social impact. We got…
Q&A with #SummerImpact winner David Watterson
Earlier this month we launched our #SummerImpact contest where we asked you, our faithful readers, to tweet what you’d be doing this summer to make a social impact. We got…
Sparkseed’s Dangerously Ambitious conference examines the support structures needed for social entrepreneurship
This past weekend, 60 social entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders got together in Sunnyvale, California for Dangerously Ambitious, a three-day “un-conference” that included skydiving, urban adventure games, and a rapid…
Interview: Gary Field on why Career Gear focuses its outreach on men – and why that’s good for women, too
At 32, after a two-decade battle with drug addiction, Gary Field walked out of a rehab center and shortly thereafter discovered a passion for helping others. Field began working as…
Twitter Roundup – August 20: Whiskey-fueled cars, prescriptions for produce, greenest universities
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: At this point,…
Go fly a kite! No, really!
When’s the last time you flew a kite? If it’s been a while, there’s an interesting event in New York City this weekend that could help fix that. FlyNY, drawing…
Big Ideas: Alex Nicholls says social entrepreneurship is growing up
In our Big Ideas series, we check in regularly with top thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they’re working on, what questions they’re wrestling with,…
Gates and Buffett’s Giving Pledge earmarks billions for charity, remains criticized for lack of synergy
Two months ago, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett formally announced their new endeavor, the Giving Pledge. Each man pledged to give the majority of his billion-dollar fortune to philanthropic causes. …
Interview: Jensine Larsen of World Pulse on creating a grassroots global women’s newswire
Women make up more than half of the global population, but own less than 1% of the world’s financial resources. They represent a third of the world’s journalists, but less…
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