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Help 2.4 Billion People and Reduce Millions of Tons of Emissions – All with One Click

Help 2.4 Billion People and Reduce Millions of Tons of Emissions – All with One Click »

More than 125,000 years ago, humans discovered fire. With it came a source of heat, warmth, and light. Unfortunately, for 1 in 3 people living today, very little has changed. This is energy poverty. Young...

May 12 2010 / View Comments / Read More »
Social Entrepreneur Surfer Dude Puts WAVES to Good Work

Social Entrepreneur Surfer Dude Puts WAVES to Good Work »

Entrepreneurship Surfing is pretty radical, especially when it’s used to transform poor towns into thriving sustainable communities. Dave Aabo is social-entrepreneur surfer-dude using surfing, the gorgeous Peruvian coastline and voluntourism to build eco-tourism to support...

April 8 2010 / View Comments / Read More »

Entrepreneurship

International Development Design Summit 2010 »

International Development Design Summit 2010

48 participants representing 17 countries converged upon Colorado State University on July 7th, 2010 to kick off the fourth annual International Development Design Summit...

Jul 28 2010 / View Comments / Read More »

Social Entrepreneurship Weekly »

Social Entrepreneurship Weekly

This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in...

Jun 26 2010 / View Comments / Read More »

Nonprofit Organization Highlights Local Changemakers in Haiti »

Nonprofit Organization Highlights Local Changemakers in Haiti

“People in poverty are championing the way out of poverty,” declared Daphne Nederhorst, Ashoka Fellow and founder of Sawa Global, an organization highlighting local...

Jun 21 2010 / View Comments / Read More »

Social Entrepreneurship Weekly »

Social Entrepreneurship Weekly

This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in...

Jun 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More »

Microfinance

Students for Microfinance: Loaning and Consulting To Empower Entrepreneurs Near and Far »

Students for Microfinance: Loaning and Consulting To Empower Entrepreneurs Near and Far

By Crystal C. Yan Last week, I attended the Microfinance USA 2010 Conference as one of more than 200 student conference attendees. I sat in on “Student-Led Microfinance Clubs”, a panel of individuals working to empower students to be a part of the microfinance movement....

May 30 2010 / View Comments / Read More»

Brazil’s Slow, but Moving Microfinance Movement »

Brazil’s Slow, but Moving Microfinance Movement

In today’s world, Brazil is commonly viewed as the shining star of South America – both in terms of political and economic stability. President Lula has proven to be a reasonable man, a well-fed middle class is beginning to poke through a society previously marked...

May 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More»

How to Get a (Paid) Job in Microfinance »

How to Get a (Paid) Job in Microfinance

Getting a paid job in microfinance can sometimes seem like the Holy Grail of nonprofit work. The fact of the matter is that the top-notch, innovative, entrepreneurial economic development strategy draws a slew of top-notch, innovative, entrepreneurial job candidates. Whether you’re a soon-to-be recent grad...

Apr 29 2010 / View Comments / Read More»

Edu

Secondary Students Bring Solar Power to Ugandan Village, Volunteerism at Best »

Secondary Students Bring Solar Power to Ugandan Village, Volunteerism at BestEducation Not all volunteer opportunities are created equal. Instead of sending volunteers overseas to paint classrooms or hand out food – projects with ephemeral impact,...

May 18 2010 / View Comments / Read More »
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Africa

More Than a Change Agent

More Than a Change Agent

I am in a bit of a unique circumstance while writing this blog as I am sitting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia preparing to leave for a five-day trip to where more than 64...

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Asia

Cambodian Knitters Help Build Sustainable Social Enterprise

Cambodian Knitters Help Build Sustainable Social Enterprise

Social Entrepreneurship Knitting is often associated with grandmas, not social enterprise. However, Cambodian Knits founder and social entrepreneur Monika Nowaczyk makes the connection. At six years old Monika fled Communist Poland to live...

Apr 29, 2010 / More »

South America

Brazil’s Slow, but Moving Microfinance Movement

Brazil’s Slow, but Moving Microfinance Movement

In today’s world, Brazil is commonly viewed as the shining star of South America – both in terms of political and economic stability. President Lula has proven to be a reasonable man, a...

May 7, 2010 / More »

Europe

All Entrepreneurship is Social…for Awhile

All Entrepreneurship is Social…for Awhile

We’ve all had the “What is social entrepreneurship?” discussion. The topic was even the recent focus of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s cover article. Yet the definitions we apply to social enterprise continue to...

May 3, 2010 / More »

Middle East

Your Junk is My Internet

Your Junk is My Internet

As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits and Atoms lab crew. It took over seven years...

Mar 8, 2010 / More »

North America

International Development Design Summit 2010

International Development Design Summit 2010

48 participants representing 17 countries converged upon Colorado State University on July 7th, 2010 to kick off the fourth annual International Development Design Summit (IDDS). IDDS aims to produce innovative, scalable technologies and...

Jul 28, 2010 / More »

Oceania

Sustainable NYE City #4: Melbourne, Australia

Sustainable NYE City #4: Melbourne, Australia

If you need to stay focused this New Year, Melbourne, Australia is the right place to be to write those edgy resolutions. Why? Because Melbourne has been making some pretty eco-impressive resolutions of...

Dec 28, 2009 / More »

Central America

Nonprofit Organization Highlights Local Changemakers in Haiti

Nonprofit Organization Highlights Local Changemakers in Haiti

“People in poverty are championing the way out of poverty,” declared Daphne Nederhorst, Ashoka Fellow and founder of Sawa Global, an organization highlighting local changemakers in their home communities. Four Sawa Global employees,...

Jun 21, 2010 / More »
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