Weekly Roundup: Hunger for change, Wangari Maathai’s legacy, and renewable energy abroad
Every week, we report on the conversations surrounding the big issues in the world of social entrepreneurship and change. Debates on Food Take Center Stage in the U.S. Americans appear…
Sowing Seeds of Peace Where Peace Seems Impossible
Twenty-year-old Mahmoud Jabari is a Palestinian photographer and journalist from the West Bank city of Hebron. He believes that youth will provide a way forward for the long-standing, seemingly perpetually…
SunSaluter Wins Social Good Summit’s Startups for Good
A 19-year old woman won the Social Good Summit’s Startups for Good challenge last week. Eden Full’s presentation to the panel of judges as a finalist was so impressive that…
Paul Polak’s BoP advice
Go spend time with your new market. Understand their needs. Do not presuppose that you know the answer. Multinationals can play a role in this. It’s about collaborating. They can…
Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health Event Takeaways
Looking at the statistics, the world has a long way to go on maternal health. One woman dies from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications every minute–that’s 529,000 women a year. That…
Harvard Undergraduate Business for Good Competition Improves Its Strategies Along the Way
More and more, university students in the US and elsewhere are using their knowledge and drive to launch social enterprises right out of college instead of waiting until their careers…
Mashable Social Good Summit Day 2: Empowering Women
This week, Mashable, the UN Foundation and 92Y are hosting a Social Good Summit – a four-day event to facilitate conversation about tech and social change. See three can’t-miss announcements…
Mashable Social Good Summit: Day 1
The Mashable Social Good Summit, a four-day conference on tech and social change hosted by Mashable, the UN Foundation, Ericsson and the 92Y, kicked-off on Monday in New York City.
Innovating New Models for Change With ITP and The Grameen Creative Lab
The notion that change requires a model, and that certain models are more effective than others, was the driving force behind Change Model, a two-day conference held this weekend at…
Interview: Andrew Rasiej on technology as a new ecology, not just a medium
This week Dowser is revisiting our best tech stories while our writers report back from the Social Good Summit. Check back often for our conference coverage – we’ll examine the…
Weekly Roundup: Solyndra scandal, climate change denialism, and alternatives to unemployment
Solyndra Green Jobs Scandal This Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing about a failed $528 million government loan to Solyndra, a solar equipment manufacturer that recently…
Heeding Obama’s Call to Rebuild and Improve our Nation’s Schools
During President Obama’s recent speech to Congress outlining his American Jobs Act, he acknowledged the state of America’s schools: “There are schools throughout this country that desperately need renovating. How…
ChopChop: Childhood nutrition in magazine form
When a kid makes a face and says “ugh” at the site of tofu, and you find a way to prepare it that he loves and can’t get enough of, you know you’re doing something right. And that is the kind of thing Sally Sampson is seeing time and again as a result of ChopChop Magazine, which she founded in 2010.
The Coming Capital Convergence
True Believers As attendees entered last week’s SoCap conference in an old Army warehouse on the San Francisco waterfront, they filed past a large graphic projected on a screen depicting…
Fighting a Famine; Northeastern Kenya
April 22nd, 2010 was the last time Sahal H. Abdi, Kenya Red Cross Regional Manager for North Eastern Kenya, can recall a singledrop of rain touching down on the scorched earth…
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