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 on food from the last week: Just this week, the USDA (@USDAgov) released a brand new website with a national ...
An enlarging pothole is threatening the safety of drivers or bicyclists in your neighborhood, but your city has no hotline for non-emergencies. What do you do? It can be frustrating to report the problem -- you'll be left on hold or waiting weeks ...
Three winners have been announced for Apps 4 Africa, a contest initiated by the U.S. State Department that is aimed at harnessing Africa's tech talent for social change. The competition, launched on July 1, was a rare example of a government agency crowd-sourcing ...
SOCAP, the social capital markets conference, wound down in San Francisco earlier this week. What follows are some insights and reflections from the event. Venture (human) capital: Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund was one of the few speakers that talked about the need ...
After spending six years at PBS as the vice president of digital ventures, Deron Triff saw a need for more first-person stories generated by changemakers themselves. So, he launched Changents.com, a for-profit social venture that provides storytelling tools to people addressing social problems ...
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: Just as we went to press with last week’s Twitter Roundup, Google (@google) announced the winners ...
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: FrontlineSMS is free software that helps NGOs reach large groups of people anywhere there’s a mobile ...
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 loads of amazing and diverse world-changing responses. We selected five winners and we’re ...
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 loads of amazing and diverse world-changing responses. We selected five winners and we’re ...
This past weekend, 60 social entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders got together in Sunnyvale, California for Dangerously Ambitious, a three-day "un-conference" that included skydiving, urban adventure games, and a rapid fire Twitter-inspired pitch procession. College entrepreneur incubator Sparkseed hosted the event, in line ...