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January 5th, 2012By Comments (2)

This is the 4th part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. Gabriel Brodbar, the founding director of ...

January 4th, 2012By Comments (1)

This is the third part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. The father of SOCAP, Kevin Jones, ...

January 3rd, 2012By Comments (2)

This is the 2st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. Amy Clark, the U.S. Fellow Selection ...

January 3rd, 2012By Comments (1)

The Christian Science Monitor did a series recently, citing all the trends that are making the world a better place -- yes, it may actually be getting better. Contrary to the news of environmental disasters, crazy weather patterns, global demonstrations against inequality, and ...

January 2nd, 2012By Comments (3)

This is the 1st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. As the Chief Innovation Officer at ...

December 28th, 2011By Comments (3)

India’s Controversial Food Bill: Despite the glowing success of India’s corporations in recent years, the country still has significant levels of inequality, leading to malnourishment and hunger among many of its citizens.  So, this week, India’s governing party put forward a monumental bill ...

December 27th, 2011By Comments (5)

As we approach the end of 2011 and take stock of this year in social entrepreneurship – the stories, the leaders, the emerging solutions -- there is a strong sense that we have finally entered the decade of fruitful social change. Back in ...

December 22nd, 2011By Comments (2)

Granito stitches together two stories: a documentation of Guatemala’s “secret war” in 1982, and today’s efforts to disclose the  truths of Montt’s regime. For Paco de Onis, the movie's producer and his colleagues, director Pamela Yates and editor Peter Kinoy, at New York-based ...

December 21st, 2011By Comments (2)

The thousands of women who took to Cairo’s streets on Tuesday, marching to protest against Egyptian soldiers who tore women’s clothes off—specifically, their abaya, a symbol of modesty and piety--dragged, and beat them during violent demonstrations in Tahrir Square last weekend, have made ...

December 20th, 2011By Comments (2)

The subprime mortgage crisis that erupted in 2008, and resulted in nearly a million foreclosures by October 2009, is far from over. The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that, after a nine-month high in home foreclosures in November, another surge will come in ...