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The Economist magazine has a section in the Feb 25th issue that is a survey on wealth and philantropy (Subscription is required to view the webpage). There is an article included within that survey titled, “The rise of the social entrepreneur” that offers a nice lay of the land of social entrepreneurship. Here is the… Continue reading The Economist Surveys Wealth, Philanthropy, and The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The NYTimes recently ran a piece titled “Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Educational Reform,” (sub. req.) which discusses John Doerr’s role in founding the New Schools Venture Fund in San Francisco. Although New Schools has been covered pretty well by the press, this article is a good piece about social entrepreneurship: Unlike Kleiner Perkins Caufield… Continue reading Social Entrepreneurship In The News- Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Educational Reform

Cnet reports that Xerox PARC, a technology research powerhouse, and Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital powerhouse have increased their commitment to “the emerging field of clean technologies.” Kleiner Perkins has created a $100 million fund dedicated to green technologies, and Xerox PARC announced a collaboration with a venture called SolFocus, to develop and improve solar… Continue reading Investment in Biofuels