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Posted 1 year ago
Recently, the Unreasonable Institute fellows gave their final business pitches at the 2010 Global Summit. Luckily, they captured these all on film and posted all the presentations on their website.
Above is just a sample, which came from Who Gives a Crap, a group that will make “environmentally sustainable toilet paper and donate profits to water sanitation projects in the developing world”. Fun and fascinating.
Posted 1 year ago
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.
Posted 1 year ago
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?
Posted 1 year ago
“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.”
Posted 1 year ago
“A new website connects lawyers who want to volunteer time with non profits and social entrepreneurs looking for free legal services.
TrustLaw Connect is an online service promoting pro bono legal work around the world. It works a bit like Kiva in that people requesting and people donating help are vetted and then matched through the service, which is run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It’s free to both beneficiaries and providers.”
Thanks to Marc Smolowitz for originally posting to Facebook.
Posted 1 year ago
Very interesting article (and comments!) on the Harvard Business Review Blog “The Conversation” about why the U.S. needs to “spend less time and money training entrepreneurs and funding contests domestically [and] invest more in social entrepreneurs globally.”
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