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Some interesting quotes today from Google: …geothermal energy, or natural energy that can be harnessed beneath the earth’s surface, is the “sleeping giant” of alternative energy. Geothermal energy systems promise “extremely rapid growth if key technologies can be proven in the next few years,” he wrote. Link

From the Acumen Fund Fellows Program: We are excited to announce that the application process for the 2009-2010 class of Acumen Fund Fellows is now open. Applications will be accepted online until noon EST on October 20, 2008. Detailed information about the program and application the process, as well as bios of current and past… Continue reading Be an Acumen Fund Fellow

Here’s a article about Peaceworks, a “successful global business that promotes peace through commercial ventures among Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Turks, Indonesians, and Sri Lankans”. They are pioneering a different flavor of social entrepreneurship that is promoting peacemaking through business. “We are using market forces to achieve the goal of peace and coexistence,” says Lubetzky. Having… Continue reading Peaceworks In Business Week: Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter

The Synergos Institute, based in New York City has launched a Social Innovators Program in the Middle East and North Africa and sends the following message: Are you making a difference in your community? We can help give you the tools and funding to do it better. Synergos Social Innovators Program We’re hoping to make… Continue reading Synergos Social Innovators Program

Forgot to link to this article last week from the WSJ: Pax World Management Corp., one of the best-known “socially responsible” investment firms, settled Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it violated its own rules against purchasing shares in companies involved in such businesses as defense, alcohol, tobacco and gambling. The settlement — in which… Continue reading Socially Responsible Investment Firm Bought Shares In Defense, Tobacco, and Gambling Businesses

There’s been a long running rift in the micropayments world, with Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winning founder of Grameen Bank, on one side and for-profit counterparts such as Compartamos on the other side. Yunus has accused these for-profit lenders of being nothing more than loan sharks. Compartamos defends themselves and say that they create… Continue reading The Problem Brewing In Microlending

Sundance Institute has initiated a Request for Proposals for STORIES OF CHANGE: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN FOCUS THROUGH DOCUMENTARY. The one-time funding initiative will provide $1.2 million in film project grants to enable the development and/or production of new feature-length independent documentary films that frame, examine and amplify social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to the… Continue reading Sundance Institute: Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary

So many goodies in this article about the rise of social venture funds: This year, socially conscious venture funds are ramping up at an unprecedented scale. At least seven new and follow-on funds billed as mission-driven investment vehicles are on track to raise about $750 million this year “It’s really peaked in the last six… Continue reading The Rise of Social Venture Funds

BUILD’s mission is to provide real-world entrepreneurial experience that empowers youth from under-resourced communities to excel in education, lead in their communities, and succeed professionally. By supporting students in developing and actually running their own small businesses, BUILD puts entrepreneurial education far beyond the classroom into a tangible context. BUILD students come from neighborhoods where… Continue reading BUILD: Summer Intern and Manager Positions