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August 13th, 2010By No Comments

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 ...

August 12th, 2010By , Comments (1)

Oso Martin, founder of the Portland, OR-based recycling collective Free Geek, combines three problems and comes up with a solution. “Some people have too many computers; others don’t have enough,” he told us. “And there is a glut of computers going to landfills. ...

August 5th, 2010By , No Comments

Summertime, and the tweeting is easy...It's only been three days since we launched our social change Twitter contest, #SummerImpact, and we've already racked up quite an array of amazing responses to the question, “What purpose-driven projects have you been carrying out over these ...

August 2nd, 2010By Comments (3)

Ahh, summer. Makes us think about barbecues, beaches, and… social innovation! Yeah, that’s right—social innovation. Dowser wants to know how you’re building a better world this summer.  What purpose-driven projects will you be carrying out over the next few balmy months? And with ...

July 30th, 2010By No Comments

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 ...

July 28th, 2010By No Comments

All around us, people are working on innovative solutions to pressing social problems. Often, though, those stories can be difficult to track down. Which is why we’re regularly scouring the Web to highlight who’s solving what and how.

July 16th, 2010By No Comments

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) alerted us to news that New York City is gearing up to launch one of ...

July 15th, 2010By Comments (1)

All around us, people are working on innovative solutions to pressing social problems. But those stories can be difficult to track down. Which is why we’re scouring the Web to bring you weekly links highlighting who’s solving what and how. Video Games for ...

July 8th, 2010By No Comments

All around us people are working to solve pressing social problems, but these stories can be difficult to track down. So we'll be scouring the Web regularly to highlight a few of them. See below for this week's selections.

July 7th, 2010By No Comments

Social innovators can learn from each others' successes and failures. That's the idea behind Dowser's Mini Case Studies, real-world stories showing how changemakers confront practical challenges. From time to time, we'll add to the mix great studies from around the web. Here's one ...