Category: General

Why the World Economic Forum is relevant to social entrepreneurship: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Geneva-based foundation whose Annual Meeting of chief executives of the world’s richest corporations, some national political leaders (presidents, prime ministers and others), and selected intellectuals and journalists, about 2000 people in all, is usually held in Davos, Switzerland.… Continue reading The Relevance of The World Economic Forum to Social Entrepreneurship

I recently wrote about Nicholas Negroponte and what he’s trying to do with the $100 dollar laptop initiative. Well, there is an update about it coming out of the Annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos– Reuters reports that the UN body is backing the project: The United Nations has thrown its weight behind a… Continue reading UN body backs $100 laptop for world’s kids

Education is a space that has truly benefited from the work of social entrepreneurs. You can tell by looking at the Social Capitalist Awards that a lot of great innovators are doing some good things to improve education, particularly in underserved areas. At the college level, for-profit institutes have been popping up at a feverish… Continue reading New York Moves to Limit Colleges That Seek Profit

TreePeople is a non-profit organization in Los Angeles that I was very active in for a very long time. TreePeople’s goal is: …to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest – educating, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in… Continue reading TreePeople: Greening urban communities one tree at a time

Here is a post from an online marketing blog describing a “user generated content” site that is touting itself as the “PBS of the web” — you can read their press release here. Here is a quote from the website: The Digital Universe is an intuitively organized, multimedia Web that will inform, educate, engage and… Continue reading PBS of the Web!

Its MLK Day today. Martin Luthor King Jr. was one of the greatest social innovators to live during our time. You can read all about him at Wikipedia. I hope that everyone has an opportunity today to get out there and make a difference in the community!

BIGNYC.ORG and the Community Environment Center recently opened ReStore with Habitat for Humanity NYC. Here is the low-down on ReStore: The ReStore , is New York City’s only non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials; it is co-sponsored by Habitat-NYC and Build It Green! NYC, a program of the Community Environmental Center (CEC).… Continue reading Social Entrepreneurs In Action: Build It Green! NYC

This should’ve been my first post but I’m glad I waited because I think there already exists a definition that is pretty good from the Skoll Foundation. Here is a bit about them: The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social… Continue reading What is a social entrepreneur? What is social entrepreneurship?

I added another category– this is one for practicing social entrepreneurs. The first link I’ve posted in there is to a NY Times article that was published Dec 28, 2005 about Martin Dunn, who is doing some great work in New York City related to low income housing. Here is an excerpt from the article:… Continue reading New category: list of practicing social entrepreneurs