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August 15th, 2011By Comments (2)

This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news frames the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we're examining the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political to ...

August 12th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: Months of social unrest in Tunis, Cairo, and other parts of the Arab world, and recently ...

August 11th, 2011By Comments (5)

Every Thursday, thanks to a content partnership with brother-sister duo Journey of Action, we'll be exploring Gen Y changemakers--and how they fit in with the rest of the world. Financial turmoil. Rough recoveries. Debt. The global economy seems to be, in few words, ...

August 10th, 2011By Comments (8)

This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news frames the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we're examining the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political to ...

August 9th, 2011By Comments (5)

This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news frames the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we're examining the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political to ...

August 5th, 2011By Comments (1)

Didn't have time to read the news this week? Every week, we report on the conversations surrounding the big issues in the world of social entrepreneurship. GIIRS Revs Up For Launch Though SocEnt news this week seems to have taken its August holiday, ...

August 5th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: Can New York City rival Silicon Valley, as Mayor Bloomberg would like it to do with ...

August 5th, 2011By Comments (1)

Journey of Action is filming Gen Y changemakers around the world. We catch up with them in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to visit the for-profit social enterprise Tegu, a premiere wooden block maker whose innovative business model takes a three-pronged attack to social problems in Honduras.

August 3rd, 2011By Comments (3)

This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news frames the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we're examining the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political ...

August 1st, 2011By Comments (3)

While at Oxford, Rajeeb Dey knew that students generally gravitated toward traditional internships with leading banks and prestigious firms. Yet, as the head of Oxford's Enterprise Society, he had countless small businesses and start-ups approaching him, interested in working with Oxford students as ...