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All Blog Posts Tagged 'impact' (18)

Promising social impact measurement framework!

(Totally taken from their website) In early 2009, Acumen Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation and B Lab, in conjunction with PwC and Deloitte, began working with a small group of stakeholders in the social and environme… Continue

Added by sunit shrestha on October 11, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Change Agents: The rock stars of social change

Changents connects Agents of Change with a fan base of Backers around the world, enabling them to create change together. Change Agents are the ro… Continue

Added by Anne Illana on July 17, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Creating a Common Language for Social and Environmental Impact

In the last few years, a proliferation of investment dollars has been allocated to funds and enterprises seeking to generate social and/or environmental impact as well as a financial return. The sector has grown to over $50B in total assets and the pace of new investment grew by an average of over 35% over the past 5 years until the middle of 2008. In addition, close t… Continue

Added by Anne Illana on July 15, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Fast Company- "The SoCap Way"

Here is a great article from Fast Company talking about what makes a great performance.

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Added by Anne Illana on July 6, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

GOOD IDEAS SALON- The power of ideas!

WHAT Good Ideas Salons are where forward-thinkers come together to share ideas to make things better, whether that’s better work, better play or a better world. Based on the success of its Good Ideas Salon series in New York, the team at trends and innovation company PSFK has invited motivated individuals to produce their own salons—harnessing the… Continue

Added by Anne Illana on July 2, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

TakingITglobal - Engaging Youth for Positive Change

I came across another fantastic organization that is helping to engage youth for positive change on a global scale. Here is a bit about TakingITGlobal.

The Vision Youth everywhere actively engaged and connected in shaping a more inclusive, p… Continue

Added by Brooke on June 26, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

The World is Interconnected: The Importance of Social Change [Akhila Kolisetty]

I found this great article on a new blog and just had to share it. For the original article, please go here.

We all want to change for the better Change: it’s something we all want to embrace, but so… Continue

Added by Anne Illana on June 3, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

MicroPlace- Invest Wisley, End Poverty.

Before eBay bought World Of Good, they bought MicroPlace. A concept very similar to Kiva, MicroPlace allows you to invest in entrepreneurs in the developing world while simultaneously earning a profit. So, MicroPlace is a social business owned by eBay. We want to alleviate global pover… Continue

Added by Brooke on May 30, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

KICKSTARTER- A New Way to Fund Ideas and Endeavors

With all the talk that is going on about how to get more money for early stage ventures, this is a really interesting and innovative way to crowd source people and money behind an idea. Here's some… Continue

Added by Brooke on May 17, 2009 at 8:32pm — 2 Comments

Fast Forward Fund - "Youth Investing In Youth For Global Change"

The Fast Forward Fund generates social investment partnerships for outstanding projects led by visionaries in their twenties, supporting a culture of youth philanthropy and youth-directed social enterprise. TARGETED, MULTI-YEAR SUPPORT We inspire, enable & mobilize young leaders as social investors. Through targeted two-year investments, FFF directs… Continue

Added by Brooke on May 4, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

YouthActionNet® Global Fellowship Program - Calling all Applicants!

filepicture_1202890589.gif 2009 Fellowship YouthActionNet® Global Fellowship Program CALL FOR APPLICATIONS A program of the International Youth Foundation, YouthActionNet® seeks to develop a new generation of socially conscious global citizens who create positive change in their communities, their countries, and the world… Continue

Added by Brooke on April 7, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

"Trust Your Crazy Ideas"- New Orleans Style!

While researching other social business incubators, I came across The Idea Village, a depot of talent and collaboration, created for innovators in New Orleans.

The Idea Village is an US-based independent non-profit organization with a mission… Continue

Added by Dev on January 27, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Making Money While Going Green?

Yep, that's the way Gary Hirshberg has done it! Stonyfield Farm has been a pioneer in green business by producing organic yogurt for the past 25 years. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, "CE-Yo" Gary Hirshberg draws on highlights from his book Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World to talk about how his company has consistently worked to reduce its use of resources and production of wastes and emissions, while increasing its profitability.… Continue

Added by Bruno Bernardes on January 18, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Echoing Green Announces Semifinalists

Echoing Green Announces Semifinalists by Nathaniel Whittemore from Change.org

Hippo Water Roller in action Echoing Green is a fellowship for social entrepreneurship startups that provides seed funding, mentorship, and community to social innovatiors. Seeing as how I follow social entrepeneurship like many follow sports, my favorite part of their year is whe… Continue

Added by Bruno Bernardes on January 13, 2009 at 6:21pm — No Comments

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Computer Recycling

I found this really useful FREE guidebook that is available to anyone. The purpose of this guidebook is to help develop the skills required to handle the growing flux of waste generated by the new and used computer markets for the benefit of the environment and public health.

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Added by Bruno Bernardes on December 15, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

What Should be the PURPOSE of Business?

So what do you get when you combine eighty countries, three hundred universities, over one hundred organizations, all make up of human rights activists, consultants, marketers, social entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs, diplomats, investment bankers, educators, and academics?? It's a tough one, I know! You get StartingBloc. StartingBloc educates, empowers and connects emerging leaders to drive positive social change across sectors.… Continue

Added by Dev on December 14, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

GoodSearch to become a Google-for-Good-Doers??

Imagine if you could change the world without really changing your routine. Imagine if you could give to charity without using a penny of your own money. Imagine if you could donate to a cause of your own choice simply by doing a normal internet search...

We all have a cause we car… Continue

Added by Dev on December 12, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

Did you know 90% of the "stuff" out there is meant for only about 10% of the world's people? What about designing for the other 90%?? What about designing things that are NEEDED instead of just keeping us in the viscous cycle that "The Story of Stuff" portrays so well?