It's becoming increasingly popular to take a gap year either before college or between college years. Many youths are choosing to use that time to make a positive impact in the world. Here, Doni Bloomfield (right), an incoming freshman at the University of ...
Women make up more than half of the global population, but own less than 1% of the world's financial resources. They represent a third of the world’s journalists, but less than 1% of its editors, department heads and media owners. And women are ...
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: Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the PBS television show “Sesame Street” (@sesamestreet), is teaming up ...
A few weeks back, The Blind Project, a New York City-based nonprofit that helps commercial sex workers and people enslaved in sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, rolled out a crowdsourcing fashion-design challenge to highlight these issues. The competition, called Be A Biographer, invites ...
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: Social media news blog Mashable (@mashable) informed us about this brash new website that had flown ...
In coverage of social innovation, entrepreneurs get most of the play. But intrapreneurs—employees who innovate within organizations—are key drivers of change, too. With this in mind, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) launched a program earlier this year to help women become effective ...
Last week, on behalf of the New York Women Social Entrepreneurs, I moderated a panel on innovations in sustainable design. Panelists’ expertise ran the gamut—architecture, fashion, education, and industrial design—but the one theme that united all of their responses was the importance of ...
The folks at L.A.-based Project H Design like to make things that matter. Project H and its network of socially motivated designers have built playgrounds that teach math in South Africa, designed rugged wheelchairs suitable for the developing world, and pioneered a therapeutic, ...
In 1983, Vivian Stromberg traveled with a women’s delegation to Nicaragua in the midst of a brutal civil war. There, she witnessed day care centers, schools and clinics that had been bombed by the U.S.-backed Contra armies. Stromberg and her American colleagues wanted ...
We all know that that time of the month is a pain, but who knew that it causes millions of women to lose up to 45 days of work and school every year? And for something as basic as a lack of sanitary ...