It’s sometimes a stretch to see how buying a product can solve a cause, but with his new book End Malaria: Bold Innovation, Limitless Generosity, and the Opportunity to Save a Life Michael Bungay Stanier is looking to make that link as clear ...
Echoing Green and Dowser have partnered to uncover the winding paths of today’s most innovative changemaking professionals. Susan McPherson’s career path has taken her from dreams of being an astronaut, to the newsroom at USA Today , and all the way to the ...
When a good idea is executed poorly the smart social entrepreneur will often scrap the project and go back to the drawing board. In this series entrepreneurs talk about discarding what isn’t working and starting over in order to maximize social impact. Troy ...
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, and zeal) who are working on issues pertaining to young people and children, ...
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 the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political ...
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 White House and beyond, read the real-life story of Ian Rowe, CEO of ...
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 power of technology and innovative thinking to create change. Andrew Rasiej is what ...
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 can we expect our kids to do their best in places that are ...
Large-scale global initiatives can be challenging to interpret on a local level, especially when they involve goals for children and education. Deport-es para Compartir seeks to render the UN Millennium Goals for Mexican schoolchildren through physical activities to build students’ capacities for local ...
In this series social entrepreneurs discuss the importance of reaching out. From transforming strangers into business partners to saving flooded headquarters, contacts and future contacts routinely prove integral to every aspect of creating and running a social enterprise. Kurt Brown works with Micro ...