Bob McKinnon on how to get 32 renowned people to contribute to a book on social change (Hint: ask 230)
Bob McKinnon, the founder of YELLOWBRICKROAD, a company that focuses on communication that advances social change, had a vision five years ago to create a book that would gather creative…
Arts and Urban Youth: Interview with Jeff McCarter on challenging teens to tell their stories on film
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by or disconnected from — public schools. Starting today, and over the newt few weeks, we’ll be…
Q&A with #SummerImpact winner Chris Gordon
Earlier this month we launched our #SummerImpact contest where we asked you, our faithful readers, to tweet what you’d be doing this summer to make a social impact. We got…
Interview: Jensine Larsen of World Pulse on creating a grassroots global women’s newswire
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…
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…
Twitter Roundup – July 16: Recycling clothes in NYC, when ideas ‘have sex,’ goats and the city
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: Trendspotters PSFK (@psfk)…
Clay Shirky on ‘the collapse of complex business models’ and the rise of innovation
Media sage/prophet/futurist/demigod Clay Shirky wrote a post on his website entitled “The Collapse of Complex Business Models.” While it’s ostensibly about the need for innovation in media, it also reads…
Virtual Street Corners: using technology to bridge class and cultural divides in Boston
Boston area neighborhoods Brookline and Roxbury are two miles apart, but they might as well exist in different countries. Brookline is a majority white and Jewish suburb, while Roxbury is…
Interview: Jessica Mayberry reimagines media made by and for villagers
When the World Bank asked 20,000 of the world’s poorest people to list their greatest need, the most common response was a way to express their voice. Jessica Mayberry, founder…
Dowser Interview: Guy Jacobson of RedLight Children Campaign
After being solicited for sex by a barrage of very young girls while traveling through Cambodia, Guy Jacobson learned two things: First, child sexploitation was not something many people talked…
Beyond slacktivism: Can we click our way to social change?
When the punditocracy convened in late 2009 to assess the “aughts” (or whatever we’re calling the just-concluded decade), they focused on the War on Terror, the proliferation of reality TV,…
WATCH: Maura Minsky, Scenarios USA
Remember how dull (and awkward!) your high school sex ed and life skills classes were? Maura Minsky, co-Founder and Executive Director of Scenarios USA, has a different approach: let young…
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