Co-developed with the Gates Foundation, this toolkit is designed to help bottom of the pyramid organization "hear the needs of people in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind." http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/ Read More
Site: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ Location: Boulder, CO Mission We give social entrepreneurs wings. Vision We envision a world transformed by social entrepreneurship - a world where tomorrow's leaders develop sustainable and systemic solutions to issues of global magnitude. Objectives Support the international collaboration of young social entrepreneurs. Educate Unreasonable Fellows ...Read More
http://www.socialearth.org/company-list There are some obvious ones on this list but then there are a lot of organziations that I have never heard of (RBS SE 100 Index, United Prosperity, Unreasonable Institute, YogaBear). Worth checking out and bookmarking for job searches. Read More
When Economic Development Meets Rule of Law on Developing Country Terrain: Findings on regulatory organizations and their street-level enforcers in Brazil Judith Tendler, a development economist, is Professor of Political Economy in the International Development Group of the Department of Urban ...Read More
On Friday, a team from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia became the first international team to win the Global Social Venture Competition. GSVC is an annual global competition held at UC Berkeley that brings together some of the most ...Read More
Business schools have a chance to unleash the entrepreneurial dreams of a generation—they should jump at it There was a time when being in a rock band was the ultimate in campus cool. Now it seems that once again being in ...Read More
Global Social Enterprise 2009 [Thailand] A cross section of social enterprises we are working with this year as part of the Global Social Enterprise initiative at Yale SOM. Change Fusion Mirror Foundation Open Dream Read More
They are not traditional Venture Capitals but they aren't traditional philanthropists either. Is there a space inbetween? Can they be put in one bucket? Can traditional Venture Capitalists ignore what is happening in this space? This interesting article from Brian Trelstad, ...Read More
Making Better Investments at the Base of the Pyramid - HBR.org. Related articles by Zemanta Look for Leadership at the Bottom of the Pyramid (discussionleader.hbsp.com) Read More
Business Daily Africa - the international window into East African business opportunities - Let’s pay more attention to social entrepreneurship. Related articles by Zemanta Reporting from the Skoll World Forum (makegood.com) Cutting out the middle man for humantarian donations using cell phones (brainhealthhacks.com) Read More