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Amicus Uses The Social Graph To Improve Non-Profit Fundraising

Amicus is a new startup that recently came out of Y Combinator, a well known and highly regarded startup incubator based in Silicon Valley. They’ve recently raised $3.2 million in venture capital to launch their product which uses the social graph to improve non-profit fundraising. Description from TechCrunch: > Fundraising phone calls from strangers make… Continue reading Amicus Uses The Social Graph To Improve Non-Profit Fundraising

Two Degrees Food: A Nutrition Bar That Gives Back

NBC’s Today Show tomorrow (Nov 15) will feature a segment on Two Degrees Food. Here’s a quote from AARP’s blog post on it: > Walters along with his co-founder, Will Hauser, a 25-year-old former Wall Streeter joined together in 2010 to form a company with the purpose of doing business for good. By that, I… Continue reading Two Degrees Food: A Nutrition Bar That Gives Back

Where To Volunteer in New York- Hurricane Sandy Aftermath

VOLUNTEERS IN HIGH DEMAND! Below are a list of volunteering resources if you are interested in pitching in. EDIT: I will be adding additional listings on an on-going basis.  Many of the links I’ll be adding going forward will be important and valuable albeit more locally focused efforts. – NYC Service (nyc.gov/service) Offers a variety of… Continue reading Where To Volunteer in New York- Hurricane Sandy Aftermath

E-book: Social Entrepreneurs Speak: Essays, Articles, and Interviews on Social Entrepreneurship

Check out this interesting new e-book called Social Entrepreneurs Speak: Essays, Articles, and Interviews on Social Entrepreneurship. It is a compilation of selected pieces written for Dowser.org. There is also an introductory essay that analyzes social entrepreneurship’s potential for sustainable social change. Link to the book: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/221365 (via email submission)

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Will Crowdfunding Ignite Investing For Profits And Purpose?

Crowdfunding has the potential to ignite impact investing. How? Well, for starters crowdfunding is inherently social. Founders of companies and potential investors can talk openly on the web and exchange feedback, concerns, and ideas. More importantly, when it comes to attracting investors, crowdfunding enables founders to bring to bear what’s called “social capital.” Social capital… Continue reading Will Crowdfunding Ignite Investing For Profits And Purpose?

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OLPC is plowing forward with the successor to the XO-1

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 1 Comments OLPC CEO Rodrigo Arboleda said in a released statement today, “There is constant debate over laptops versus tablets in educational programs. But the truth is both have their merits. While maintaining our XO’s award-winning design from Yves Behar’s FuseProject, we have combined features of both devices to deliver dual… Continue reading OLPC is plowing forward with the successor to the XO-1

Columbia Business School- Social Enterprise Conference 2012

Columbia Business School’s upcoming Social Enterprise Conference this year will be on Friday, October 5, 2012 Time: 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Location: Lerner Hall, Columbia University Description: Aligning Strategy to Maximize Impact Ranging from startups to programs embedded in multinational organizations, social enterprise continues to thrive despite complex political and economic environments. Companies and… Continue reading Columbia Business School- Social Enterprise Conference 2012

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TEDx talk: Solution to indoor air pollution in the third world

Reader Jordana writes: I’m writing to share this recently broadcasted TEDx talk on how we can save two million lives a year by changing people’s cooking appliances. The BioLite HomeStove is a new technology that generates electricity from the heat of the flame. This enables the stove to power an internal fan, which cuts smoke… Continue reading TEDx talk: Solution to indoor air pollution in the third world

Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum: A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.

Jason Saul is the founder and CEO of Mission Measurement, a strategy consulting firm that helps its clients create value through social change. Here he writes about five takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum: The Skoll World Forum—an amazing alchemy of the world’s greatest social entrepreneurs, big thinkers, financiers, philanthropists, and academics—is often a… Continue reading Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum: A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.