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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Social Impact Session with Sonal Shah
Brian Weinberg of Blended Profit speaks with Sonal Shah, a Tides Fellow and former Director of the Office of Social Innovation at the White House. SONAL SHAH is an entrepreneur and…
Samahope: Crowdfunding Health
Samahope, a new platform for public health campaigns, takes the fight for public health to the individual. By Lindsay Hebert The sixteen women on my computer screen need help….
How to get a social enterprise off the ground: The money trail
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…
The Mission Asset Fund: A bridge between informal and formal banking
For many people, opening a savings account isn’t simply a rite of passage. In fact, about 30 million people are unbanked or under-banked according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation….
GetRaised advises women on the art of asking for a raise
While most of us have experienced the agony of getting up the nerve to ask our boss for a raise, perhaps we haven’t considered the large-scale effects of asking, or not…
Interview: SOCAP’s Kevin Jones on trends to look for in 2011
Kevin Jones is perhaps best known as one of the fathers of SOCAP, a series of annual events dedicated to the flow of capital to social enterprises. SOCAP 2010, which…
Interview: Echoing Green’s Lara Galinsky on trends to look for in 2011
As the Senior Vice President at Echoing Green, Lara Galinsky supports the next generation of social entrepreneurs. She is the co-author of Echoing Green’s book Be Bold, which illustrates how…
Twitter Roundup: January 14 – Sustainable business plans, mobile money services and hydrogen fuel cells
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: What’s next for…
Giving What We Can: Maximizing the impact of donations
In the giving season, choosing where to donate can be difficult; the staggering number of important organization and causes is overwhelming, and where you put your money is as important…
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