Month: January 2008

MSN Partners With WhatOnEarthIsGoingOn- Cause Marketing

The portal doesn’t seem to be live yet. As cause marketing gains popularity, MSN aims to help it along. The company announced last week that it would partner with WhatOnEarthIsGoingOn to create an online community by which brands can connect with consumers through issues they find important. The whatonearthisgoingon.msn.com portal will tap MSN’s existing user… Continue reading MSN Partners With WhatOnEarthIsGoingOn- Cause Marketing

Cellphone Recycling

I’ve written about cell phone recycling in the past so I felt it relevant to link to this lengthy New York Times Magazine article from last week on cell phone recycling. Some interesting companies mentioned in the article include: GreenPhone, Collective Good, and Recellular.

Attend a timely and thought-provoking introduction to the important changes underway as Microfinance comes of age.

Not sure if this is limited to Yale alums but sounds interesting: Microfinance lending institutions have traditionally been recognized for making small loans to the poor in developing countries a market considered too small, too expensive, and too risky for conventional lenders. Repayment rates, however, have been remarkably high, and over the last few decades… Continue reading Attend a timely and thought-provoking introduction to the important changes underway as Microfinance comes of age.

Multinationals Fight Climate Change

Here’s an interesting little initiative that I just read about in the New York Times– it’s called the Carbon Disclosure Project and it involved 11 multinational corporations trying to address the issue of climate change: The companies in the program, called the Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, include giants in their sectors like Cadbury Schweppes, Dell,… Continue reading Multinationals Fight Climate Change

Charity Gift Cards

The idea of charity gift cards has been around for a while but a major hurdle was the lack of legitimacy with regards to the authenticity of several of the outlets that are dabbling in this space. This New York Times article sheds some more light into charity gift cards and names a few of… Continue reading Charity Gift Cards

Google.org Provides Guidance

DotOrg officials said they had decided to spend the money on five initiatives: disease and disaster prevention; improving the flow of information to hold governments accountable in community services; helping small and medium-size enterprises; developing renewable energy sources that are cheaper than coal; and investing in the commercialization of plug-in vehicles. Link to NYTimes article

Invitation to New York Women Social Entrepreneurs’ January Event

Passing this message along: New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) is a group of women that is forming to share experiences, insights, support and ideas related to social change and entrepreneurship. We are the New York chapter of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (www.ywse.org). For this gathering, we invite you to join us to discuss the… Continue reading Invitation to New York Women Social Entrepreneurs’ January Event

A Step Back For OLPC- Intel Pulls Out

According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel has pulled out of the One Laptop Per Child partnership, citing disagreements with founder Negroponte. “We’ve reached a philosophical impasse with OLPC,” Mr. Mulloy said. He added that Mr. Negroponte had demanded that Intel stop selling its own-designed laptop, known as the Classmate, in developing countries and stop… Continue reading A Step Back For OLPC- Intel Pulls Out