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Meet the social entrepreneurs with 16 ideas so bold they could change the world.  This video highlights the 2010 Fellows selected by Echoing Green, an organization that provides seed capital and support to some of the world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs.

Love these forward-thinking folks.  Last year, we interviewed a former Echoing Green Fellow, David Del Ser, who is working on a mobile business apps for the bottom of the pyramid. 

Watch more in-depth video with the 2010 Echoing Green Fellows. 

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What do you expect of business in solving social problems, now and in the future?

Question posed in “The Corporate Philanthropist: Stakeholders’ Expectations of Business” from Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP).

This question is then answered from all perspectives by a range of private, public, and social sector leaders:

Many truly excellent reads above, particularly the piece on the Consumer Perspective by Jack Leslie, President of Weber Shandwick.

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Social Entrepreneurs! What Are Your Favorite Books?

We’re looking for your favorite strategic, motivational, or historical books that help you do good business.  In the comments below, write the title of the book, why you love it, and how it’s useful for other social entrepreneurs and socially responsible business folks. 

Then we’ll take your recommendations and create a Socially Responsible Reading List!

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I’ve always been a big fan of the idea that reality TV programming could be used to highlight the the work of people committed to social innovation.  Well, this won’t be broadcast on cable, but the Unreasonable Institute—an incredible incubator for social entrepreneurs—has just launched Unreasonable TV, a video series comprised of pitches, interviews, and episodes chronicling their summer institute. 

This is really inspiring, well-produced video that brings you inside the organization and introduces young social entrepreneurs from all across the globe. 

HT: Nathaniel Whittemore on Change.org’s Social Entrepreneurship blog

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The Teach For All network is still in an early phase of development, but Nick Canning, its chief operating officer, figures there is no natural limit to its size. “We are interested in doing as much as we can and having as much impact as possible,” he says. One future target area is Africa, “where there is the greatest need and the greatest potential,” he says. Kopp believes the organization will be able to accelerate growth and support between 50 and 60 organizations in the network within five years. “The ultimate vision is to create a network that is building and fueling an unstoppable movement to ensure educational opportunities for all,” she says. “If we can reach that point, we will have created a powerful force for change around the world.” Read more here. 

The Teach For All network is still in an early phase of development, but Nick Canning, its chief operating officer, figures there is no natural limit to its size. “We are interested in doing as much as we can and having as much impact as possible,” he says. One future target area is Africa, “where there is the greatest need and the greatest potential,” he says. Kopp believes the organization will be able to accelerate growth and support between 50 and 60 organizations in the network within five years. “The ultimate vision is to create a network that is building and fueling an unstoppable movement to ensure educational opportunities for all,” she says. “If we can reach that point, we will have created a powerful force for change around the world.”

Read more here. 

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The New Recruits is a documentary about a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services. Click image above to learn more, check your local listings, or get the DVD!

The New Recruits is a documentary about a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services. Click image above to learn more, check your local listings, or get the DVD!

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Which Nonprofit Will Win the Readers’ Choice Literacy Grant?

The good folks at Better World Books are funding not one, but two $20,000 grants to benefit meaningful literacy projects.  You get to pick one of the winners, and their literacy committee picks the other!

Read the grant proposal summaries and vote for your favorite!

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There’s no question that having run a private sector business and having gone to business school made me much more effective as a social entrepreneur; there are a lot of similar challenges. The important thing is not the private sector or public sector experience specifically; it is the experience of managing a business.
Gerald Chertavian, Founder, Year Up in “How he made the jump from business to social entrepreneur” by Ashoka US

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