The World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog put together a blogroll (which is basically a list of blogs and their URLs) of various sites that focus on issues in development. Categories include Aid Effectiveness, Corporate Governance, and Social Entrepreneurship. There’s a nice collection social entrepreneurship blogs in that blogroll so definitely check it out. Thanks… Continue reading Nifty Collection Of Social Entpreneurship Links at The World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog
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Harvard Social Enterprise Conference- Mar 5th, 2006
Harvard is hosting the 7th Annual Social Enterprise Conference this weekend. The panel topics are more interesting than ever, and the schedule is packed with events such as the “Pitch for Change” Competition (which is a business competition with a slight twist), various networking opportunities, and a career fair. I’ve created an “events” category on… Continue reading Harvard Social Enterprise Conference- Mar 5th, 2006
WorldChanging Tries To Bring Out the Social Entrepreneur In Us All
WorldChanging is a great website I recently found and added to the “Blogs I Read” section on the right. WorldChanging is one of those websites where I knew exactly what it was about as soon as I saw it BUT even after reading the “About Us” page, I had trouble putting together the words to… Continue reading WorldChanging Tries To Bring Out the Social Entrepreneur In Us All
Lily Pad –Closing the Digital Divide in Cincinnati
A few days ago, I wrote this post on social entrepreneurs trying to close the digital divide. Well, here is another free wifi initiative that seems to be working, but using a slightly different approach. Project Lily Pad is a free wifi initiative based in Cincinnati, Ohio. What differentiates Project Lily Pad from other free… Continue reading Lily Pad –Closing the Digital Divide in Cincinnati
Social Entrepreneurs Focused On Closing the Digital Divide
I’ve been spending a bit of time researching free and advertising-supported wi-fi because I think its a practicial solution for the digital divide issue that we face today. The 100 dollar laptop project is related but focuses on international, whereas I am concentrating specifically on solving the problem in the inner cities of the US.… Continue reading Social Entrepreneurs Focused On Closing the Digital Divide
Net Impact 2005 Conference Webcast Online
Private Sector Develop Blog informs us that the Net Impact 2005 Conference webcasts and audio files are available for download via the Stanford Business School website (Stanford Graduate School of Business hosted the event). There’s a lot of material there so knock yourself out. Of course I immediately drilled down to the social entrepreneurship section… Continue reading Net Impact 2005 Conference Webcast Online
Add Charity Shopping To Your Website To Generate Funds
Check out this post on TechSoup, called Add Charity Shopping to Your Web Site which details how to add a charity shopping mall to your website. If someone ends up buying something through your shopping mall, you get a small percentage of the profits. For some motivation, TechSoup provides some numbers from a case study:… Continue reading Add Charity Shopping To Your Website To Generate Funds
How Charities Can Get FREE Online Advertising
Stephen Baker of Businessweek writes on Blogspotting that: When advertisers research the effectiveness of an online advertisement, they typically populate half of the pages with the ad–and the other half, the control group, with a filler ad, a placebo. This is valuable advertising real estate that is often given away. He ends the post by… Continue reading How Charities Can Get FREE Online Advertising
Social Entrepreneurship: Recycling Old Cell Phones
I just read an article in Red Herring about a company called ReCellular, which is the number one U.S. cell phone recycling company. ReCellular refurbishes and resells cell phones instead of scrapping them for their metals. Although, the article focuses on a new technology that ReCelluar has developed to help triple its profits this year,… Continue reading Social Entrepreneurship: Recycling Old Cell Phones
Google Appoints Executive Director for Its Philanthropic Arm
Link to press release here. Google today announced the appointment of Dr. Larry Brilliant as Executive Director of Google.org, which administers Google’s philanthropic activities. In this role he will work with the company’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to define the mission and strategic goals of Google’s philanthropy. Dr. Brilliant is a founder and… Continue reading Google Appoints Executive Director for Its Philanthropic Arm