Great profile of charity: water in the New York Times– the personal story of the founder is interesting: Five years ago, Mr. Harrison was a nightclub promoter in Manhattan who spent his nights surrounded by friends in a blur of alcohol, cocaine and marijuana. He lived in a luxurious apartment and drove a BMW —… Continue reading charity:water – bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations
The Mind Trust Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Mind Trust’s Education Entrepreneur Fellowship is a nationally unique incubator for transformative education ventures. The Fellowship offers promising education entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop and launch their break-the-mold education ventures and the support necessary for success. Fellows receive two years of salary, benefits, a stipend for travel and professional development, and more. With this… Continue reading The Mind Trust Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
Google SMS Allows People To Access Information With Their Mobile Phones
Google does a great job of describing Google SMS— it’s basically technology that meets the needs and infrastructure of Africa: Most mobile devices in Africa only have voice and SMS capabilities, and so we are focusing our technological efforts in that continent on SMS. Today, we are announcing Google SMS, a suite of mobile applications… Continue reading Google SMS Allows People To Access Information With Their Mobile Phones
Jobs for Change: Recruiting a new generation of leaders into the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors
Jobs for Change is being launched at a time of both crisis and opportunity. The crisis we face is rooted not only in our faltering economy but also in our national failure to confront major challenges, from education to energy to health care. At the same time, President Obama has inspired renewed interest in public… Continue reading Jobs for Change: Recruiting a new generation of leaders into the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors
Facebook’s Hunger Program: ShareYourLunch.net asks you to “Share Your Lunch With 20 Children For Just $10
This comes from TechCrunch as well: Yesterday, we wrote about Microsoft’s pledge to feed the hungry if you download their web browser. That campaign is misleading, and it really shows when you compare it to another campaign of a similar nature. Today, while at Facebook’s new headquarters in Palo Alto, we noticed that it too… Continue reading Facebook’s Hunger Program: ShareYourLunch.net asks you to “Share Your Lunch With 20 Children For Just $10
Mozilla Encourages Users To Participate in Service Week
Not sure what’s up with Silicon Valley churning out the love these days but here’s Mozilla’s efforts: This September, Mozilla is challenging users to earn their Internet merit badges by donating their time and talents to public benefit institutions, non-profits, and those in need. According to an email we received from Mozilla, “Everyone should have… Continue reading Mozilla Encourages Users To Participate in Service Week
All For Good: A Craigslist for volunteer services
via TechCrunch: A coalition of non-profit organizations, technology developers, designers, marketers and others has unveiled the alpha version of a new Web service dubbed All for Good in an effort to build some sort of ‘Craigslist for volunteer services’. The metaphor stands, and not only because Craig Newmark from the popular free classifieds service is… Continue reading All For Good: A Craigslist for volunteer services
Microsoft Tries Its Hand At Affinity Search Marketing
Microsoft feeds the hungry if you download and install their browser: Today, the Internet Explorer Team took over New York City’s Time Warner Center and San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza where local artists used food cans to create sculptures of the Empire State Building in New York and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.… Continue reading Microsoft Tries Its Hand At Affinity Search Marketing
Administrative news
In case you read this blog only through RSS, we decided to refresh the site. Some content and links needed to be moved around. Please let me know if you spot any issues. You can reach us via the contact form. Also, we’ve doing some refreshing in the office and have to give a shout… Continue reading Administrative news
Renewal2 closes first fund, to focus on companies which have positive environmental, social and financial returns
Richardson, President of Renewal2 Investment Fund, is pleased to announce the first close of the Fund at over $16 million. Renewal2 is one of a handful of funds in North America that focus on companies which have positive environmental, social and financial returns. The Fund builds on 15 years’ experience of high-impact social investing at… Continue reading Renewal2 closes first fund, to focus on companies which have positive environmental, social and financial returns