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For more than 22 years, SVN members have transformed the way the world does business. From the organic revolution to fair trade to socially responsible investing and so much more, our members pioneered a movement that has proven that business can truly be used as a tool for making the world a better place. As… Continue reading Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 SVN Innovation Awards! Deadline: June 15, 2009

YIP is a new social entrepreneur training in Järna, Sweden, for youth aged 18 to 25 who want to create a positive social change in the world. It’s basically a course in how to bring your own initiative into being. YIP brings in experienced international course leaders to teach a wide array of topics, teaching… Continue reading The International Youth Initiative Program

The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship is a unique program that connects top engineering talent to credible social enterprises driving market-based solutions to development in India. It serves a dual need: matching talented students with worthy social enterprises and increasing awareness of for-profit approaches to development. The Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) fellowship program has… Continue reading The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship

Deadline: April 17, 2009 The Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change encourages individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of those who have initiated positive social change. We seek those individuals whose vision and courage inspire others to join with them in confronting and challenging injustice. As we begin our search for… Continue reading Gleitsman International Activist Award Nomination [Deadline: April 17, 2009]

A guest post from Ann Logue, author of Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies. Social Investing and the Modern Market By Ann Logue Social investing is a fine idea: investors get to flex their capitalist muscles to help fund companies that are changing the world while pressing companies that are a little less than perfect to… Continue reading Social Investing and the Modern Market- Guest Post

The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by the Lemelson Foundation, is a competition in which we are calling for ideas and project proposals from young innovators, 12-20 in the North America and Europe, and 12-24 in all other regions, using a new or adapted technology to improve the lives of others. There will be several… Continue reading The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by Ashoka’s Youth Venture

The Invent Your World Challenge, sponsored by The Lemelson Foundation, which seeks the most innovative and creative youths that use technology to create positive change: http://www.inventyourworld.org

UpStart Bay Area is new organization that is helping Jewish social entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Area. It launched last summer and aims to cultivate new ideas and support entrepreneurs in opening their non-profit social enterprises. Check out their new website here. They are currently taking applications for the next round of UpStarters: Are you… Continue reading Upstart Bay Area hopes to nourish next generation of Jewish innovators

The Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) fellowship program has commenced its second annual rigorous recruitment process to match the most talented ten undergraduate students from fifteen elite Indian engineering schools with partner social enterprises that focus on development by means of sustainable for-profit entrepreneurship. E4SI fellowships promise to be highly entrepreneurial in a way that… Continue reading The Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship

William Easterly: Today, I foist a new blog called Aid Watch on the blogosphere. The objective is to be brutally honest when aid is not helping the poor, but also praising it when it is. Link to blog