Noteworthy that they made this announcement through their blog: "Yesterday, the President announced that he would ask Congress in the FY2010 budget to provide $50 million in seed capital for his Social Innovation Fund, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The Fund will identify ...Read More
Twitter and the Social Entrepreneur — Social Edge. This weekend, I joined Mike Del Ponte and Rimas Silkaitis from Sparkseed for a teleseminar on "How to use Twitter for Social Entrepreneurship." Rimas shared how to use Twitter for personal branding and ...Read More
trendwatching.com's May 2009 Trend Briefing covering INNOVATION JUBILATION. So this isn't exactly all related to social innovation/enterprises (although there some cool bicycle and green companies in here), but I think it is interesting to see some new biz models out there ...Read More
The clean-car promise of Better Place | Electric evangelist | The Economist. Image by jdlasica via Flickr Good article from the economist continuing to raise the profile of Better Place, Shai Agassi and their ambitious goals. ...Read More
Welcome to Sankalp. Another Intellecap endeavor. Although this conference ended its worth being aware of it. About Sankalp Sankalp (English: Pledge or Determination) is a South Asia Social Enterprise and Investment Forum with the primary goal of bringing together various stakeholders sharing ...Read More
No one has had a chance to really check this out yet, but there is a new Social Enterprise magazine that is soon to be released by Intellecap. I'll be getting a subscription to check it out and will blog ...Read More
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
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
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