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: The NYTimes has caught on to the social enterprise bug. They suggest that the recession has actually ...
So you’ve got the next Great Idea to solve a social or environmental problem; or the beginnings of the next Great Idea -- where do you go from here? How do you manifest your idea into something tangible, an organization, enterprise or product? ...
In Amsterdam from May 30th – June 1st, the SOCAP/Europe conference brought together 650+ people from around the world to discuss money and meaning. The result was a packed 3-day conference involving panel discussions, open space sessions and movie showings that explored topics ...
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: This Stanford Social Innovation Review article profiles the rise of NextGenNow leaders (next generation leaders leading now) ...
Most 17 year-olds are focused on hanging out with friends, sports, getting into college, or their summer vacation plans. Then there are those exceptional ones who can’t wait until adulthood to get their ideas off the ground. Ashoka’s Youth Venture program has just ...
It’s an unlikely place for an ice cream shop, and an even more unlikely batch of people to be running it. Inzozi Nziza, or “Sweet Dreams” in Kinyarwanda, is Rwanda’s first and only local ice cream shop. Located in the small university town ...
“We don’t sell our products, we don’t market them, and we don’t take them to our clients” - CEO Konrad App of micro-leasing solar energy company Stima Systems. Showcasing at the SOCAP/Europe conference last week, members of the Stima team, Konrad App, Matt ...
In an interview with NextBillion, founder of Ashoka Bill Drayton argues that empathy will be the key to successful and healthy economies for the next generation. Nothing short of a “paradigm shift” in our educational model is necessary if we are to raise ...
Not only is the concept behind the startup genome project impressive, but the story behind it is interesting as well - it was created by an 18 year-old who set out to organize and improve the entrepreneurial world. Max Marmer and his colleagues ...
It’s normal for any movement to find itself stuck in a rut from time to time. And with the global recession still having an effect on the market, the social enterprise movement has, like all sectors of the economy, faced limitations and constraints ...