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September 7th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

We asked this year's Unreasonable Institute Fellows, who are in the early stages of developing innovative social ventures, to reflect on some key takeaways from the eight-week Summer Institute they attended. Here, Khalida Brohi of Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) shares her experience. By ...

September 3rd, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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: More than 50 carrot farmers from around the country have banded together this week to take ...

September 2nd, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

As the sun rose on February 4, 1735, Philadelphians awoke to find a most curious letter to the editor in the morning edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette. “Being old and lame of my Hands, and thereby uncapable of assisting my Fellow Citizens, when ...

August 31st, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 serve the poor. As one of the inaugural FIAPS – or Fellows for ...

August 30th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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, and what opportunities and challenges they see up ahead for the sector. Alan ...

August 30th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 inspired by a nearby LEED-certified building, these panels are a pretty straightforward business ...

August 27th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 that brought you gay marriage last year comes another progressive decision this week. ...

August 26th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 loads of amazing and diverse world-changing responses.  We selected five winners and we’re ...

August 26th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 loads of amazing and diverse world-changing responses.  We selected five winners and we’re ...

August 25th, 2010Contributors:  No Comments

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 loads of amazing and diverse world-changing responses.  We selected five winners and we’re ...