Ten (sustainable) stars to Gardiner Harris and The New York Times for their recent Solution Journalism piece on changing admission requirements for medical schools. This article made both the "Most-Emailed" and "Top-Shared on Facebook" lists, which have become indicators of success for online journalism...and defies assertions that "good news" leads to decreased readership.
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: Where did social entrepreneurship come from - and how do we know it’s actually going somewhere? These ...
One of the oldest, most respected professions in the world is midwifery. And yet, midwives working in developing countries often lack simple resources like electric lights and towels. Meg Wirth founded the web-based startup Maternova, which provides vital obstetric tools and information to ...
“When you go to a group of young girls in East London and say, do you want to program? They’ll probably run away,” Iris Lapinski joked. But last year, she proved herself wrong when 40 girls applied for 20 spots in one of ...
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 do you manifest your idea into something tangible, an organization, enterprise or product? ...
When most people think of design, often the first images that come to mind are of suspension bridges, urban landscapes, or well-formed living room furniture pieces. But “design” has become a broad-sweeping movement to use a process of ethnographic research and collaborative iteration ...
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: This interview on Echoing Green, with their senior vice president, sheds light on the emergence of the ...
When you look at a business plan, it can all seem so simple: design product, sell product. Right? In reality, there are countless obstacles to climb over between envisioning a business and bringing a product to market – especially if your enterprise has ...
Most of us would like to make sure that the products we buy -- anything from food to clothing -- weren't made with exploitative or forced labor. But even savvy shoppers find they simply can't avoid, with any certainty, supporting worker exploitation because ...
It’s easy to be critical of government: it seems that our leaders never do enough to fix all the problems we face, whether they are economic, social, international, or domestic. Often social change comes from the ground up, not the other way around. ...