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Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program

Ashley — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:06:13 +0000

Singapore International Foundation has been around since 1991 carving out greater community understanding on the western seaboard, but this year marks the first time they’ve instituted a camp for young, aspiring social entrepreneurs. In partnership with Volans Asia, they’ve launched a three-day camp at the YWCA Fort Canning Lodge in Singapore to cultivate the basics [...]

Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon Shot

Ashley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:11:27 +0000

One of the greatest challenges of being a teacher is trying to convince your students why they should care about anything that you write on the blackboard. You have to bridge the gap between their current boredom and ten years later, when they will finally appreciate the utility of what they are learning. Yet there are [...]

Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant

Guest Author — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:19:43 +0000

The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Throughout the decades, one word has lasted to describe the unadulterated creative capacity of humanity: awesome. In a world increasingly overrun by the mundane, ordinary, and co-opted, who will defend the legacy of this essential quality? The Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences [...]

What I’ve Learned from the Unreasonable Institute

MikeDel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:11:11 +0000

If you haven’t heard of the Unreasonable Institute, you will. The Unreasonable Institute attracts, incubates, and finances young social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to change the world. Dan, Teju, Vladimir, and Tyler – the founders of Unreasonable – exploded onto the scene less than one year ago. Since then, they have achieved milestones that many [...]

Your Junk is My Internet

Ashley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:27:18 +0000

As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits and Atoms lab crew. It took over seven years for the World Bank to deliver on its promise of some wireless internet access and that was seven years to get with [...]

Social Entrepreneurship Weekly

Tristan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:58 +0000

This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum Of all of the world’s gatherings, none has a higher-power attendee list than the World Economic Forum. It’s a place [...]

My Five Pillars of Microfinance

Laura Kozien — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:30:07 +0000

Without fear of calling myself out as a newbie, I’ll admit that this is my first post on Social Earth. However, it’s not my first on microfinance, a topic that I’ve covered in-depth for Main Street Microfinance, ACCION USA’s blog. You should know a couple of things about me to give context to the (hopefully many) [...]

Last Day to Nominate Your Favorite Socially Conscious Senior

Ashley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:09:08 +0000

Today is the last day to send in your nominations for Civic Ventures annual Purpose Prize, dedicated to people over the age of 60. If you know a senior who has taken advantage of their retirement to change the world for the better, you can nominate them to receive a cash prize of either $10,000 [...]

The Importance of Self-Reliance

Ashley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:15:39 +0000

Now we have a problem. On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the tiny island nation of Haiti. Just a month and a half later, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the South American country of Chile. Death tolls in Haiti have now climbed well over 150,000 while Chile has reached at least [...]

Baskin Robbins 32nd Flavor: Social Entrepreneurship

Jennifer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:54 +0000

Entrepreneurship Ocean Robbins’ father grew up swimming in an ice cream cone shaped pool and surrounded by the luxuries afforded by owning the world’s largest ice cream company. After seeing the effects of the corporate world on his family, Ocean’s dad left behind the 31-flavor fortune of Baskin Robbins to live a life in a self-built [...]