4food: Creating healthy, sustainable, fast-food meals
While you can’t force people into eating healthfully, perhaps you can make it into an enjoyable or interesting experience, which they’re more likely to choose. That’s the approach that 4food,…
Unintended consequences: Christian Pena of Conexiones
Starting a social enterprise is full of surprises. In this series entrepreneurs discuss unintended consequences on the path of social innovation and how they adjusted to new circumstances — from…
Twitter Roundup: January 21 – Changemaking degrees, crowdfunding and LinkedIn startups
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: Get some advice…
Charles Slaughter of Living Goods applies the Avon model to healthcare in Uganda
Living Goods is a hybrid microfinance and public health organization; it operates a network of saleswomen in Uganda who go door to door offering health products, like bed nets, condoms…
The Human Incubator
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…
Twitter Roundup – November 12: Home efficiency scores, cigarette warnings and Yale scholarships
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…
Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Welcome to Fixes. This is a series about solutions, or potential solutions, to real world problems. It focuses on the line between failure and success, drawing on the stories of…
Interview: Allen Wilcox of VillageReach on his post-Microsoft job: changing healthcare in Mozambique
One of the toughest challenges facing social innovators today is attracting the talent needed to build world-class organizations. That’s why we feel it’s significant when a high-ranking business leader decides…
Twitter Roundup – August 13: Health tips from Sesame Street, mentorship from i/o ventures, and street parking solutions from San Francisco
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…
Sally Osberg on how social entrepreneurs can punch above their weight
Several years ago, I was at my mother-in-law’s home for a social gathering and I got into a conversation with one of her guests, a woman in her 70s. She…
WATCH: Elizabeth Scharpf on that time of the month for millions
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…
Crowdsourcing for ColaLife: How the Internet revived a life-saving idea
We’ve talked about the potential (and potential pitfalls) of crowdsourcing in previous posts. Today, we’ll look at ColaLife, a remarkable example of the power of online collaboration to mobilize a…
Mini Case Study: Global Citizen Year’s recruitment quagmire
PROBLEM: When Abby Falik started Global Citizen Year (GCY) in 2008, the last challenge she expected to encounter was not attracting enough applicants for the organization’s program. GCY offers intense…
A no-brainer health care reform
The recent health care debate has drawn attention to the industry’s proclivity for wasting time and money. But research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), shows…
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