As we teeter on the edge of a new year, after eight months in operation, we thought we'd highlight a few of the stories we came across the past year. Thanks for joining us in our launch year, come back regularly, and please ...
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: Here’s a story that brings together lots of the hot topics of 2010: Chevrolet (@ChevyVolt) announced ...
Tim Carpenter, founder and executive director of EngAGE, believes in the potential for continuing education and intellectual growth within senior living centers. EngAGE offers programs in arts, wellness and intergenerational contact in 15 senior apartment communities in southern California, reaching more than 2,000 ...
Talk about a single girl who's been trafficked from her home country, held captive, and forced into servitude -- and your audience will naturally listen and sympathize. But talk about the number of individuals around the world who face a situation like hers ...
Sometimes, the best way to progress isn’t to advance — to step up with more money, more technology, more modernity. It’s to retreat. Towards the end of the 1970s, the Mother and Child Institute in Bogota, Colombia, was in deep trouble. The institute ...
In 1995, 12-year-old Craig Kielburger was flipping through the Toronto Star looking for comics when he came across an article about the murder of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani child labor activist who was also 12. Upset by this story, Kielburger gathered a small ...
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: Vice President Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced Tuesday that the Department of Energy ...
Think of able-bodied young adults in beautiful leaf-peeping Western Massachusetts, and you don’t think of kids who’ve dropped out of high school or gotten stuck in dead-end jobs. But after living and writing in the historic mill town of Turners Falls for three ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by -- or disconnected from -- public schools. Starting today, and over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders ...
In our Risk-taking series, Tulane University and Ashoka U students Katie Smalley and Laura White shed light on the value of risk-taking. By interviewing social innovators about bold steps they’ve taken, they reveal that so-called risky behavior may be the most dependable way ...