Before creating World Bicycle Relief, F.K. Day ran SRAM, one of the world’s top manufacturers of bicycle parts. In 2005, struck by the images of people struggling to cope after the Tsunami, Day flew to Sri Lanka. He thought his bicycle and business ...
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 ...
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: Remember Vélib, the pilot bike-sharing experiment in Paris that’s been replicated in cities around the world? ...
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.
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: The Guardian's Michael Brunton-Spall (@bruntonspall) reported from the Activate Summit in London that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s ...
What do you do when hundreds of attendees at social entrepreneurship's flagship event - the Skoll World Forum - find themselves stranded in England due to a volcanic eruption? Social entrepreneurship blogger Nathaniel Whittemore got the idea to throw a conference. He contacted ...
PROBLEM: Overeager and undiscerning donors nearly hamstrung the D.C.-based recycling collective, Bikes for the World (BfW), in its infancy. International development professional Keith Oberg, had created BfW to solve two problems: The developing world lacked affordable, eco-friendly transportation, and cheap production methods had ...
For decades, city dwellers have grappled with the question: to car or not to car? Own one, and you’ve got to park it somewhere, a process that’s nearly guaranteed to be a daily intrusion on your time, wallet, and sanity. But go car-less, ...