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HIP Investor
[HIP POV] How to Profit and Lead with Sustainability
SureGround Solutions’ CEO Thera Kalmijn and HIP Investor CEO R. Paul Herman have co-authored multiple features on sustainability leadership – and its implication for profit and shareholder value – in Sustainable Life Media. Read how to improve your company’s initiatives for higher human impact and profit – or gain plus good –...
Upcoming Events: SB10, LOHAS, SoCap10, OppCollab, NetImpact
Join these Sustainability Communities and Conferences – and meet HIP’s CEO at each in 2010: * June 7-10, Sustainable Brands conference (Monterey, Calif.) * June 23-25, LOHAS conference - buy 1 get 50% off second ticket til May 31 (Colorado) * October 6-8, Social Capital Markets conference (San Francisco, CA) * October 15-20, Opportunity...
May 3, Wash. D.C., Urbana; Meet the Author, HIP Book
DATE Monday May 3rd from 5:00PM to 7:00PM Author* R. Paul Herman presents at 6:00PM. (Cash bar Happy Hour Ends at 7p) VENUE Urbana Restaurant and Wine Bar 2121 P Street Northwest, Washington, DC – (202) 956-6650 SPECIAL THANKS TO: Washington Network Group The Wharton Club of DC The Penn...
May 5, Phila., Wharton/UPenn; Meet the Author, HIP Book
You’re invited to the meet the Author* (a UPenn and Wharton School alumnus) of the New Book: The HIP Investor, featuring the New Fundamentals of Investing DATE Wednesday, May 5, 3:00pm to 5:00pm VENUE University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Hunstman Hall, Room 265 3730 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Penna. 19104 DIRECTIONS At 37th and Walnut Streets Entrances...
May 10, Chicago, ShoreBank; Meet the Author, HIP Book
You’re invited to the meet the Author* of the New Book: The HIP Investor, featuring the New Fundamentals of Investing DATE Monday, May 10, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. VENUE Shore Bank – Global Headquarters 134 N. LaSalle Street Suite 1900 Chicago, IL 60602 Please RSVP below to clear building security DIRECTIONS...
May 18, Seattle, Town Hall; Meet the Author, HIP Book
You’re invited to the meet the Author* of the New Book: The HIP Investor, featuring the New Fundamentals of Investing DATE Tuesday, May 18, 2010 AGENDA 6:30 pm ““ Meet the Author 7:30 pm ““ Presentation by author R. Paul Herman* 8:15 pm ““ Book Signing and Personalizing (Book for...
How to Change the World
Examples needed: Enchanting websites
I’m collecting a list of websites that are “enchanting.” That is, they are inviting, communicative, and cool. For example, I think that Work Awesome is enchanting. I’d love to see what websites are enchanting too. Please add list them in......
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Just posted an article about how to persuade people at the American Express Open Forum. Click here to read it....
How to follow all the Toyota news
If you’d like to follow all the news about Toyota, be sure to go to Toyota.alltop and Autos.alltop. We aggregate hundreds of websites and blogs there....
The Elements of Guyle: British Blogging
Want to make your blog classier? You should blog like a Brit. I explain how to do this in ten easy steps....
Andrew Wolk
A New Role for Government … and Foundations
Yesterday, I was at the White House to attend First Lady Michelle Obama’s announcement of the first round of philanthropic commitments Social Innovation Fund. By now, especially for those of us working to bring the sectors together to invest in what works, the Social Innovation Fund is not news. But...
A familiar refrain to any reader of this blog is that the United States is not currently using its resources for solving social problems as effectively as it could be. According to Giving USA, U.S. foundations and individual donors spend more than $300 billion annually on contributions to charity. By...
Deval Patrick’s commitment to advancing social innovation in Massachusetts
Today was a landmark day for anyone interested in improving the way we address social problems in Massachusetts. In a ceremony at Year Up this morning, I joined Governor Deval Patrick along with Vanessa Kirsch and Kim Syman from New Profit, Inc. and a group of over 40 nonprofit leaders...
This past weekend was a big one for New Orleans – not just because of the Saints’ Super Bowl victory over the Colts but also the landslide victory for Mitch Landrieu in the election for mayor that took place on Saturday. Landrieu’s job will not be an easy one, to say...
No, it’s not just that the Saints are going to the Super Bowl − it’s Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu’s candidacy for the mayor of New Orleans. This Saturday’s election in New Orleans features the latest in a string of campaigns in which a candidate’s core messages include social innovation or civic...
Social Innovation Fund Draft NOFA is out…Public Comments Due By Jan 15th
The moment that we have been waiting for is here. This week, the Corporation for National and Community Service released a draft Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) for public comment. As I have mentioned before, this should be seen as a good step toward...
United Nations Good Works
Lady to Lead Science, Education, and Culture
The UN is getting serious about its pledge to help achieve gender equality by putting a woman in charge of the UN Education, Science, and Culture Organization (UNESCO).Irina Gueorguieva Bokova of Bulgaria won a hotly contested election against the Egyptian candidate. A vote on Monday had the two candidates...
Mozambique Gets Ready to Rock the Vote
Last summer, volunteers could be found everywhere – on the streets, outside of your grocery store, at your local music festival - with voter registration forms, trying to register and motivate new voters to make their opinions count in our 2008 presidential election. Partially due to these efforts, the US...
Thailand - Turning Lights on, Taking Pollution Down
Until now, Thailand’s most remote villages lived without continuous electricity. However, villagers in settlements not even charted on Thai maps, such as Mae Ya Noi, now have the ability to turn on a light and use electric-powered devices whenever they want. Better yet, the energy they are using...
Cambodian Style is Very Worthwhile
Looking for fresh fashions? Check out what Cambodia has to offer! Fashion designers and garment workers are getting a boost from the International Labor Organization’s new “I am Precious” campaign, supported by UNDP. The campaign aims to encourage the creativity and innovation of the country’s garment workers,...
Can the Children Cope until Copenhagen?
As is the case with nearly any global problem, whether it is poverty, illness, or hunger, we see the same groups again and again fall disproportionately victim to its ramifications – women, children, and the elderly. The global economic meltdown and changing climate are no different; they constitute two issues...
Mozambique Straight from the Field
Hear about development in Mozambique straight from the field. According to a country report of the African Peer Review Mechanism, Mozambique has made progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but there is still much ground left to be made up. Achievements crucial to the MDGs such as successful economic...
Adventures in Hope: Stories of DiscoverHope
We started last Friday with our first computation class, and it went really well! The curriculum went a little faster than planned because the women had told Nora that they didn´t know anything about computers or how to use them, when in fact most of them...
So this past Saturday DHF held the 2nd Leadership workshop for our village banks in the Los Banos. Amy and I got to the workshop "dining room" 1/2 hour early to set-up and prepare. We found another group using our contracted dining room, which worried me at first, but...
Our LBJ school of public affairs graduate students from Austin are alive and well in Cajamarca. Amy and Blake arrived last week and will be working with DHF through August. The amount of working hands here on the ground just tripled - from 2 to 6! Amy...
Village Bank Officer Elizabeth assisting our new village bank "The Stars of Belen" form their banks rules and regulations.Literacy class out in the campo with the village bank "Strength and Blessing"; we have two sections - Basic (learners just learning how to write their names) and Advanced (Multiplication and Division)The...
Have I ever mentioned that I love my job? Well, I do. Every week is full; new things, new stories, triumphs, and yes, struggles. When I wake up I never know what I am going to experience, hear or learn. And I love that.Another week is...
I enjoy a lot of perks with my job, just like I struggle with many frustrations. One of the perks I got to enjoy today was the sweetest of freshly made truffles and manjar blanco (dulce de leche) cookies. DHF held an appetizer course and by my taste...
Social Business Blog
Learning through Skype: an interview with Tobias Lorenz, founder of Glovico.org
Last week, our friends at ClearlySo Germany posted this fascinating interview with Tobias Lorenz, founder of Glovico.org. His company provides an excellent service that connects people with native speakers in Latin America via Skype and provides fair trade, real time language lessons in French and Spanish. This provides a number of...
As the fallout continues from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, news has begun to circulate that a number of so called ethical investment funds have been investing in BP. This will come as a surprise to many people and prompts the question: what exactly counts as an ethical investment? Until...
Last week Guinness launched its Bring it to Life Awards. Run as part of the Arthur Guinness Fund the award aims to encourage people to make a genuine difference to their local community. The program is aimed at young people between the ages of 25 and 35 who have a...
At the state opening of parliament in May the Queen uttered two magic words: ‘social enterprise’, and as she did so sparked a flurry of excitement across the sector. Never before had these words been mentioned in a Queen’s speech; never before had a government placed the sector so prominently...
“The House of Pain,” screamed the daily papers. It’s a stark headline, but – as the new Chancellor prepares to outline just how he intends to make billions of pounds worth of cuts – pretty typical of the prevailing mood of fear and doubt sweeping the press right now. We are...
Social responsibility seems to be assuming a greater prominence in all areas of life, but when it comes to pensions you could perhaps forgive people for thinking of number one. However, according to a recent survey, that might be about to change. The study, conducted by the Pensions Trust, suggested that...
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Blog
Pushing ahead with aid transparency - a great step forward
At his recent speech at the Royal Society, UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, representing the new coalition government, made a significant step forward in the push for greater aid transparency by announcing a commitment to put in place a UK Aid Transparency Guarantee. This...
Uneasy bedfellows? Stabilisation and humanitarian action
A renewed donor interest in stabilising countries affected by political violence, armed conflict and chronic poverty – so-called fragile states – should come as a welcome development to humanitarians who have long complained of the indifference shown to large-scale human suffering in these contexts. In some places, at least, it...
A development scorecard on the UK coalition agreement.
Yesterday saw the launch of the UK coalition agreement. Whilst such documents should not be seen as White Papers (and while continental European coalition negotiations tend to take longer to prepare such documents), it is rather tempting to go directly to the International Development Section of the agreement for a...
Putting the right words in the right order: The Reflection Group Report
The overall tenor of the report by the Reflection Group on the future of the EU to 2030, issued earlier this month, can best be described as alarmism leading to a call for renewal. According to the report, internal and external threats to Europe's prosperity and social stability are piling...
Reorganising Europe’s foreign affairs: what role for international development?
European Union Foreign Ministers are meeting today to agree the shape and functions of the new European External Action Service created by the Lisbon Treaty . This is not the final stage of the approval process. The European Parliament must agree the required budget and can thus require...
The results of the UK elections will mean a change in UK development policy, no matter who takes power on 6 May. ...(read more) ...
Creating a World Without Poverty
Leading From the Middle: Exploring the Role of Mid-level Microfinance Managers in India
Peg Ross, director of Grameen Foundation’s Human Capital Center team, recently returned from research trip to India. This is part of the Next Generation Leadership Development initiative to help develop the vital middle management level of microfinance leaders. It was already 100°F when we loaded into cars at 6 a.m....
Your Vote Can Help End Poverty
Darwin Cruz is Online Communications Officer for Grameen Foundation. In the face of some staggering statistics concerning global poverty, it’s easy to feel like the problem is so huge, and that we can’t make a difference. What could one person do? When people want to take action and support Grameen...
Village Banking in a Potato Field
Pat Kelly is Senior Communications Officer at the Grameen Foundation Social Performance Management Center (SPMC) based in Washington, DC. She’s has been traveling in Peru conducting interviews with PRISMA Microfinance, an MFI implementing our Progress Out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™). In mid-afternoon I visited quite a different village bank meeting—this one...
Connecting Rural Farmers With Vital Knowledge
Lydia Namubiru is the Marketing & Communications Analyst for Grameen Foundation’s Community Knowledge Worker initiative in Uganda. In early 2009, Grameen Foundation went to Uganda with the idea of creating a fluid and effective two way communication channel between rural farmers and the world of agricultural experts, development agencies, traders...
Living On $2 a Day in San Diego, CA
Alyssa Jones is a student at Point Loma Nazarene University. Along with her friends, Alyssa lived on $2/day for 3 days to raise awareness about poverty and raise money for Grameen Foundation. I’ve never done anything like the $2 Challenge before. The experience was amazing, and really changed my perspective...
Microcredit Summit Fuels MFIs Passion for Empowering the Poor
Alex Counts is the President and CEO of Grameen Foundation. Grameen Foundation’s recent trip to Kenya was a watershed event. Our founding director Professor Muhammad Yunus joined us at our Board meeting, held for the very first time in Africa. In addition, and members of our Board and our staff...
Timbuktu Chronicles
Mobile Gutenberg, Banking Papacy
Jon Gosier at Appfrica on the disruptive potential of mobile money, shades of the Cathedral and the Bazaar:Photo courtesy of WhiteAfricanThe comparison to mobile is that for most of the world, the mobile phone is even more of a disruptor than the Internet and the personal computing revolution. Mobile infrastructure, in...
Robotocist Che Edoga "...latest robot is called Biayered-X,it is a bioloid recreation of a robot originally created by Asurada. It is a hybrid Quad humanoid that I am using to explore the concept of a multi-flexible robot chassis..."Watch his 'squidword' rocket launcher after the jump...
Syndys Cakes is a thriving, boutique bakery.Nurturing innovation through “Egypt’s Nasdaq” VisionSpring and Living Goods "Business in a Bag" Model Nigerian herbal medicines and malaria via TropikaA Mobile Payment Trifecta in Kenya-Hash...
For those open source hardware types out there, Arduino: The DocumentaryTRAILER Arduino: The Documentary (available on HD) from gnd on Vimeo.Related articles by ZemantaNEW PRODUCT! Enclosure for Arduino - Electronics enclosure! (adafruit.com)Online course from O'Reilly on Processing and Arduino (mt-soft.com.ar)...
Communicating science the African way profiles Frederick Msiska a Malawian farmer and inventor:Frederick is a science hero, an innovator who used as much as possible local materials to produce a handheld chemical sprayer, a biogas toilet that lights his office, charges his mobile phone and operates a fan. His biogas...
Gregory Mchopa (Artist) and the power of Online tools
The Google Africa Blog on the ecommerce success of Gregory Mchopa Joshua To writes:Gregory suffered not for lack of passion or talent, but from the lack of technologies and services that could broadcast his work to a far wider audience. After returning to the States, I decided to take on an...
Greenbang
Jurdy considers a possibility … Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Post this to MySpace Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Linkedin Related posts:Jurdy: Inauguration day distractionsJurdy: Catching forty (green) winksJurdy: Ducking the issue Related posts:Jurdy:...
Energy-Efficient Data Centres Can Seek Energy Star Label
Data centre operators in the US can now seek the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star label for energy efficiency if they can show they rank in the top 25 per cent of their peers in performance. The EPA will base its labeling decision on a data centre’s Power Usage Effectiveness...
Europe studies tech for smarter driving, lower-carbon transport
Can information and communication technologies (ICT) really have much of an impact on the carbon footprint of our cars, trucks and buses? Participants in a European-funded research programme believe the answer is “yes.” The three-year eCoMove project aims to develop and test a variety of “green” transport technologies and applications that...
In UK, Starbucks ranks tops, though still not great, in CSR
The UK coffee‐shop industry is failing to communicate a basic standard of corporate responsibility reporting, scoring badly on the CleanAnalysis Navigator Maturity Model™. Analyst and consultancy group CleanAnalysis’s “Bitter or Sweet” report places Starbucks ahead of Caffè Nero and Costa, in both the consumer perception and the environmental reporting leagues. Some...
Anti-corruption group warns of ‘carbon cowboy’ crimes
An investigation that’s led to the arrest of the CEO of a UK-based carbon credit firm underscores the growing risk of a new type of criminal enterprise: carbon crime. Global Witness, an organisation that works to exposes corruption in international trade and exploitation of natural resources, spent the past two years...
How to cut carbon? Ditch the CDs for downloads
With World Environment Day coming up tomorrow, Deutsche Telekom has found an easy way to help reduce carbon emissions: download your software instead of buying it as files on disc. Ditching so-called “hardcopy” software packages in favour of direct downloads could reduce the global software industry’s carbon footprint by as much...
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OverviewOne of the great things about the Obama Administration is that they've generally lowered the bar for citizen participation in federal policy. I'm much rather post something in a blog than go through a formal sending of a snail mail letter!The FCC just did a series of four blog...
I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S. after my first visit to the country of Qatar. It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). The government of...
Microsoft's Fight Against Child Porn
Last week I was invited to attend Microsoft’s Citizenship Accelerator Summit. This was an opportunity for Microsoft’s management, including Steve Ballmer (Microsoft’s CEO) and other senior executives, to share what socially beneficial activities Microsoft is up to. Some of this was either predictable (but laudable) such as supporting...
Benetech is committed to developing technology for underserved communities that can reap big benefits from improved access to information. So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage,...
I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters. Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them....
Measuring Conservation Effectiveness
At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas? Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as...
Worldchanging: Bright Green
The Future of Cities and Transportation: Learning from the Parable of the Horse
Amanda Reed Bus rapid transit systems and "complete streets" are great. But to design urban transportation systems that are truly sustainable, we have to think much......
When a Billion Chinese Jump: An Interview with Author Jonathan Watts
WorldChanging TeamAs the Beijing-based Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian, Jonathan Watts has reported on environmental issues in China for several years. His new book, "When......
Austin's Energy Conservation Gem: A Worldchanging Interview with Paul Robbins
Jon LebkowskyPaul Robbins has been an environmental activist and consumer advocate since 1977. He has worked on many issues related to the environment, including clean energy,......
Technoprogressivism and the Future of Democracy
WorldChanging TeamLooking back five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2005 Future Democracy Jamais Cascio discusses Dale Carrico's concept of technoprogressivism and asks: "given the radical changes......
Resource: iuMAP: A Web-Based Directory to Track Social Enterprise Globally
Amanda ReedAyllu (pronounced 'i-u') in media partnership with NextBillion has launched a new resource for tracking social enterprise projects globally: iuMAP. (iuMAP screenshot) According to Melissa......
The Design Future of the Sacred Grove
Amanda ReedWorldchanging contributor Geoff Manaugh of BLDG|BLOG has a great article up about the contemporary and future design possibilities of "sacred groves" at the Canadian Centre......
Fuel for the Field
By Carla I. Javits, REDF President From REDF’s June 2010 eNewsletter With unemployment in California stuck around 12%, prospects for increased employment of individuals with significant barriers might seem dimmer than ever. Putting a fine point on it, “I think the unemployment rate will be permanently higher,” noted Mark Sandi,...
My Day in Washington: First Lady Michelle Obama Talks Innovation
A White House invitation spurred a quick trip to Washington, D.C. for an inspiring meeting convened by First Lady Michele Obama, with Patrick Corvington, who heads up the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), and Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council. It was heartening to witness the...
I’ve been in Israel at the invitation of the Rothschild Foundation (called Yad Handiv here) and Fay Twersky of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who led our Visiting Committee on Evaluation and Performance Measurement, which also included Paul Brest from the Hewlett Foundation, and Martin Brookes of New Philanthropy...
In Israel with a small visiting committee on Evaluation and Performance Management. We have met with nonprofits large and small, philanthropy – Israeli and US-based, corporations and banks, and the people and organizations that measure nonprofit performance. A lot of philanthropy here has historically been US-based, but because of more...
According to a new report on National Public Radio, “Americans’ trust in government and its institutions has plummeted to a near-historic low, according to a sobering new survey by the Pew Research Center. Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed by Pew say they can trust government in Washington ‘almost always...
Sticking with my vow to relentlessly focus on ‘what works’ in this blog*, today’s post is about building what Haas Business School professor Jane Wei Skillern calls the ‘networked nonprofit’ and Monitor Group calls ‘working wikily’. It’s high time that we build a tighter network among innovators who identify with ‘entrepreneurship’...
Helping Help
Sure, this presentation is about fish... but its not about fish, its about sustainability, and its worth every minute. Is your organization sustainable?(Hint: "I don't know anything about fish, I'm an expert in relationships" ...
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Educate every child about food
This is his wish:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Educate every child about foodFrom the TED Prize session: Jamie Oliver has announced his TED Prize wish.THE WISH:“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people...
Thanks to my good friend Kelly Ronan for sending this over.It took a lot of people to make this video, but only the camera man and editor had to put significant time and effort into it. I think people in committees need to work the same way. Everybody is the...
A just read a great blog post by Jon Gordon, forwarded from my good friend Shelley Sprouffske. The blog post is titled The Passion to Thrive and I have copied it below for your convenience. The blog post discusses how passion will allow you, and your organization to thrive today,...
Mashable published a great post today about using the Web to improve your marketing, and I recommend you check it out by clicking here. The post is geared for "small businesses", but the takeaways are relevant for nonprofits.The tips are:Use FacebookUse TwitterUse a blogUse LinkedinParticipate on other blogsUse mobile social...
Here are 5 of the best social media videos. Together, they do a great job showing the what, why and how behind the social media revolution:The Social Media RevolutionDramatic Shift in MarketingWhat is Social MediaHow to be a Social Media Change Agent...
UNIFEM: Latest News
Global Open Day for Women and Peace (Statement)
Statement by Ban Ki-moon ,...
Women Share a Vision for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Press Release)
Concluding a two-day conference bringing together government leaders and nearly 100 experts on women’s human and political rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Peace (IWC) reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their joint action to call for concerted action to end the...
Rwanda’s National Action Plan on UN Security Council resolution 1325 was officially launched during the International Forum on the Role of Leadership in Promoting, Accelerating and Sustaining Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Kigali, Rwanda on 17-18 May. The event was organized by the Forum of Rwandan Women Parliamentarians, in...
Statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and UNIFEM,...
China Gender Facility: Stories of Women Overcoming Challenges (Stories from the Field)
The China Gender Facility for Research and Advocacy (CGF) was established in 2004 by the United Nations Theme Group on Gender (UNTGG). Administered by UNIFEM, its objective is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The CGF provides funds ......
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)’s Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman raised more than US$175,000 today for programmes to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in China. Attended by more than 200 guests, the charity fundraiser took place during her first visit to Hong Kong, and was organized in cooperation...
Socializing
Randomizing Hits The New Yorker
"The Poverty Lab" in the May 17 New Yorker brings aid effectiveness further to the public discussion. It is a profile of Ester Duflo, who is one of the co-founders of the Poverty Action Lab.TED presentation on social experiments too. Largely an intro into randomized trials.I don't think the article's...
...from will.i.am.Hell, Yes we can!...
The New Yorker's photo essay, The Promise, is fantastic. "An interactive portfolio about the civil-rights era, with contemporary portraits by Platon, historical photographs, interviews, and audio commentary by David Remnick."The online version with interviews is a great way to spend a cold February hour and particularly helpful in gaining perspective...
I enjoyed this review of Going Rogue: An American Life in The New York Review of Books.In our present neo-Keynesian moment, economics has never seemed more bewildering and arcane, or more the exclusive preserve of hated "experts" from the "East Coast elites." Most people I know, myself included, can't readily...
Fiscal Conservative In Name Only - FCINO
I gasp at Carly for California. Please, keep making shit like this so we can identify those who want to have an adult conversation and those who want to make a complete mockery of the challenges facing California and the world. Lions and tigers and bears and wolves increasing taxes!...
This Tea Party thing is just moronic. I fear it has to be covered, sadly taking time from the pressing and complex issues of the world, and I certainly welcome any and all supporters to make their case, debate and put forward their "solutions". Good article on the New Yorker...
the Change.org Blog
Change.org launches the web’s first action network
Over the past year, people just like you have taken more than 2 million actions on Change.org, leading to dozens of social change victories. But we’re only just beginning, and today we’re excited to announce a major step forward in expanding the reach of Change.org-powered actions across...
It’s a… Blog: Race in America Launches on Change.org
Have you ever wondered why there are three unclickable blogs listed at the top of the Change.org front page? Perhaps you’ve thought, “Hmm, those all sound like blogs I want to read!” If you have wondered, then your wait is over in the case of one of these three: we’re excited...
Tune-In To The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study
We wanted to let you know about an interesting event that will be taking place tomorrow and you should tune-in if you can! Two of our great partners, M+R Strategic Services and NTEN, are releasing their new study and it’s not too late to sign up...
Announcing the Top 10 Ideas for Change in America
After the submission of 2505 ideas and 209,950 votes, we’re happy to announce the 10 winners of the Ideas for Change in America competition. The winning ideas illustrate that the issues important to people across the country are much broader than those few that consistently dominate debate in Washington. Because they...
Turning Ideas for Change Into Actual Change
Ideas for change – we all have them. I, for one, would like to change my mailman’s annoying habit of forgetting to deliver my mail every couple of days. But, it’s a long road from saying something should be changed to making the change real. Take, for example, the Ideas for...
Victory: The Huffington Post Pulls Pit Bulls From List of Dangerous Pets
We just received word that The Huffington Post has decided to remove pit bulls from its list of dangerous pets, in response to our petition. The 284 Change.org members and other online activists who sent emails to Katherine Goldstein, Huff Po’s Green Editor, convinced her that pit bulls don’t belong...
Social ROI: A Social Entrepreneurship Blog
The Tech Awards 2010 Call for Nominations
The Tech Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity’s most pressing problems by recognizing the best of those who are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address...
Analytics X Prize – Enabling social change through analytics
Enabling social change through analytics Reading about Analytics X and thought I’d share here: The Analytics X Prize is an ongoing contest to apply analytics, modeling, and statistics to solve the social problems that affect our cities. It combines the fields of statistics, mathematics, and social science to understand the root...
Presented by: Entrepreneurship@Lubin in association with: The Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship Keynote Speaker Professor Iqbal Quadir, Founder of GrameenPhone and Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sponsored by: RSVP for the Cheering Section (Audience Members) Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 5:00 p.m.- 7:45 p.m. Pace University Schimmel Center, 1 Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 The...
Robin Hood: Targeting Poverty In New York City
Four million New York City residents — half of the city — experience difficulty affording food. That’s twice the level in 2003. And that’s why Robin Hood is partnering with FreshDirect to deliver Food for Good: 15,000 meals to feed 120,000 New Yorkers who might otherwise go hungry this holiday...
MIT Legatum Center Accepting Applications for 2010-2011 Fellowship
The Legatum Center is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Fellowship, with a deadline of February 10, 2010. Led by Professor Iqbal Quadir, the Center administers a competitive fellowship program for incoming and current MIT graduate students, across all academic and professional disciplines, who demonstrate the potential to create innovative,...
Startup Africa
Grant available for Mobile Application Lab
Infodev, a donor-funded ICT for development agency hosted by the World Bank, has formed a public/private partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Finland and Nokia to undertake a joint program on Creating Sustainable Businesses for the Knowledge Economy, worth some €12 million, that will run from...
Net Prophet 2010 – Celebrating African Digital Innovation
Last year we attended the successful, awesome, full-house and inaugural NetProphet 2009 event – so this year we’ll see you all there again? Net Prophet is back, with registration for the second annual event opening on Wednesday, 17 March 2010. This year the conference, hosted by the RAMP Foundation,...
Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition 2010
The city of Cape Town is currently running a competition for entrepreneurs in Biotechnology, Telecom and Media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Clean Technology, Healthcare and Social Entrepreneurship. The winner of the Cape Town competition will also get a chance to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship competition in Barcelona in...
Africa’s New Frontier – Day 2 – Morning Sessions
9:30 – Plenary Session Topic: Innovative Approaches by African universities to meet Africa’s Development Challenges Speaker: Goolam Mohamedbhai, Secretary General, Association of African Universities Participation in HE is no more then 5% in Africa, while it is as much as 20% in developed countries. Challenges to Higher Education in Africa Coping with huge demand Gender disparity Poort...
Africa’s New Frontier – Afternoon Sessions
13:30 – Society Topic: Educating Generation Next: Expanding higher education for future African leaders What are the connections between higher education and long-term economic growth How can international partnerships expand access to higher education in African countries, and for African students What kind of higher education is most relevant for Africans and Africa How are...
Africa’s New Frontier – Creating Prosperity Through Innovation
I previously wrote about Africa’s New Frontier conference here in Ottawa. I will be live blogging the event, you can refresh the page to get the latest updates. I will cover each session with a different post. 11:00 – Creating Prosperity Through Innovation Speaker: Minister Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science & Technology...