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[Teach for America] is, I’m told by some recent grads, one of the coolest things you can do after college.
“What They’re Doing After Harvard” from the Wall Street Journal.  Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp explains why her program beats working on Wall Street. 

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New York Times has a great new business case study, “Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?“  Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman—and other business owners—talk about how Honest Tea can stay true to its brand while it tries to maintain its relationship with Coke. 

New York Times has a great new business case study, “Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?“  Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman—and other business owners—talk about how Honest Tea can stay true to its brand while it tries to maintain its relationship with Coke. 

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Give to Seth Godin's charity: water Birthday Fundraising Page

Marketing guru Seth Godin just turned 50 years old.  But instead of sending him gifts, he’d rather you make a donation to charity: water. 

Here’s his pitch:

If you go to the special page they created and buy a well for a village that doesn’t have one, you can supply clean water to two people for twenty years. If just a thousand of the readers of this blog do it, we could alter the lives of tens of thousands of people for a generation, and we could do it in just one day.  I’m not asking you to do it as a favor to me (that would be silly) but as a favor to you. Because it feels good and because $50 is a screaming bargain—100% goes directly to the well, zero overhead.

He set a $50,000 goal, and he’s already more than halfway there by the time of this posting.  Read more about his decision. 

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And less mail would be better for the economy, better for businesses and consumers, and better for the environment.

Daniel Gross in “Going Postal” on Slate.com. 

A very interesting perspective on the U.S. Postal Service’s request for a 2-cent increase in first-class postage.

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Bold Public-Private Venture Aims to Make Ore. City an 'Icon of Sustainability'

“The Oregon Sustainability Center, slated for construction at the edge of Portland State University’s downtown campus, will generate all of its electricity, consume only the rain that falls upon it, and process all of its wastewater. The ‘triple-net-zero’ building will have offices for businesses with an eye on the triple bottom line—economic, social and environmental sustainability—as well as space for municipal urban planners, nonprofit environmental groups, and university administrators, faculty and students.

‘We aspire to this driving Portland as an icon of sustainability,’ said Lisa Abuaf, a senior project manager with the Portland Development Commission, the city’s urban renewal agency. ‘At the same time, we want it to be something replicable, so that the knowledge base created by this building is exportable.’”

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Congratulations to Hello Rewind for winning the public vote in America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010.  Hello Rewind turns your old t-shirt into a custom laptop sleeve and supports new life for sex trafficking survivors by offering training and work.   

Congratulations to Hello Rewind for winning the public vote in America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010.  Hello Rewind turns your old t-shirt into a custom laptop sleeve and supports new life for sex trafficking survivors by offering training and work.   

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Watch GOOD Magazine’s great video profile of City Year. 

How can we keep our students in school and on track? City Year was founded on the innovative approach that young people are in the best position to help students and improve education in this country. City Year unites young volunteers from all backgrounds for a full year of service as tutors and role models, working to transform schools and communities across the nation. We visit one such school in Queens, New York and observe first-hand the attention and devotion City Year mentors deliver to every single student.

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When you mix profit and social benefit and say that your company will pursue both goals, you are making life complicated for the chief executive officer. His thinking process gets clouded. He does not see clearly. In a particular situation where profit and social benefit need to be balanced, which way should the scales be tipped?
Muhammad Yunus in “Social Entrepreneurs Must Drop the Balancing Act”, an excerpt from his new book, Building Social Business.

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CEOs Say Sustainability Crucial to Success “A new survey of CEOs by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture found that 93 percent see sustainability as crucial to their future success. The report, “A New Era of Sustainability” interviewed more than 750 chief executives from almost 100 countries. Of these, 72 percent said that strengthening their brand, trust and reputation with consumers was the primary driver behind sustainability initiatives.”   Read more about the survey here.

CEOs Say Sustainability Crucial to Success

“A new survey of CEOs by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture found that 93 percent see sustainability as crucial to their future success. The report, “A New Era of Sustainability” interviewed more than 750 chief executives from almost 100 countries. Of these, 72 percent said that strengthening their brand, trust and reputation with consumers was the primary driver behind sustainability initiatives.”  

Read more about the survey here.

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The Ultimate Guide to Social Entrepreneur Funding

“To get you started, we’ve got here a great guide to finding social entrepreneur grants and loans so that you can bring your concept to fruition and make the world a better place.”

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