Bill Drayton on Empathy and Collaborative Entrepreneurship
Ashoka’s Founder and CEO Bill Drayton recently spoke to Dowser about a new approach to problem solving – collaborative entrepreneurship. By pooling together hundreds of entrepreneurs (and their passion, innovation,…
Driptech: How affordable irrigation can transform small-plot farms
This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news reports frame the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we’re exploring…
Weekly Roundup: The SEC Considers Crowdfunded Investing, Impact Investment Is Buzzing, and Solyndra Debate Continues
Every week, we provide a roundup of the latest news in social change and innovation. Obama Jobs Plan Calls For Less Red-Tape In Crowdfunding The future of crowdfunding is at…
How to get a social enterprise off the ground: Collaboration
So you’ve got the next Great Idea to solve a social or environmental problem; or the beginnings of the next Great Idea — where do you go from here? How…
Social Innovation Roundup: Tackling Diabetes With A Different Slant
The mainstream media tends to place a disproportionate amount of its attention on problems. This is not just something we’ve noticed at Dowser. The public has noticed, too: In 1997,…
Unconstrained by Reality: Ian Rowe of Public Prep
Echoing Green and Dowser have partnered to uncover the winding paths of today’s most innovative changemaking professionals in an ongoing series posting every other Tuesday. From aerospace engineering to the…
Occupy Wall Street: They Are The 99 Percent (And So Are You)
Most media outlets have been and continue to be critical of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, now in its third week. The protesters’ message tries to…
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