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31 Social and Green Venture Finalists from India’s Sankalp Forum

Vallabh Rao — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:47:29 +0000

Sankalp Forum, India's leading platform for social and green enterprises has announced the finalists who will be taking part at this year's forum. This year Sankalp has expanded geographically to [...]

Reflections from the Pipeline Fellowship Conference: Women, Angel Investing and an untapped market

JocelynL — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:41:28 +0000

Photo credit: Erica Torres The 2nd Pipeline Fellowship Conference, organized by Founder & CEO, Natalia Oberti Noguera, and COO, Lauren Abele once again was a plethora of inspiring conversation. The [...]

COMMON PITCH: Enterprises that Consume Less and Share More

Franklin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:41:05 +0000

Brooklyn, NY - Over 500 tickets were sold at the Brooklyn Bowl for COMMON PITCH, a platform for eight hand-picked entrepreneurs to pitch their business in five minutes in front [...]

seToolbelt Resource of the Week: Submit Your Own!

Lindsay Miller — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:42:04 +0000

Submit your resources by February 24th and win $500 cash! seToolbelt's latest Resource Competition is on! Our Resource Competitions solicit original, unpublished tools to add to our resource library for [...]

Marriage in the Land of the Khmer

Children of the Mekong — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:45:35 +0000

In Cambodia, far from being the romantic institution idealised by the West, marriage is first and foremost a matter of “face”. By Jean-Matthieu Gautier. Originally published in French in Enfants [...]

The Lens of Empowerment

Ashley — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:54:16 +0000

Our fascination with body parts usually fades with age. When we’re young, we can pass hours playing with our mother’s ears and bouncing on our father’s knees and as we [...]

What if we were really good at social media?

Leonard — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:12:43 +0000

I recently wrote Newspapers and the internet; the lessons we share. The first article was based on The Story So Far, What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism from the Columbia [...]

Think Big, Start Small #GlobalLove #SocEnt

Tarini — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:20:51 +0000

You hear the stories every day, in fact just recently we blogged about a similar story, a small group of people making a big difference through little acts. Some examples [...]

Youth Social Entrepreneurs Hold The Key to Sustainable Change in Africa

Clem Auyeung — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:39 +0000

Rules are made to be broken, so some say. But unlike skipping school or sneaking into the house after the curfew, some rules bind our hands so tightly that the [...]

seToolbelt Resource of the Week: Root Cause Analysis

Lindsay Miller — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:11:55 +0000

You can think of social problems like an onion—peel back layer upon layer and eventually you get at the heart of the matter. This kind of problem analysis, also called [...]