The awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank gave international recognition to the quiet movement of microfinance- a concept that converged two very different views of development, social development and market-driven development, together. Grameen ...Read More
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxShanghai, where x=independently organized TED event. ...Read More
On October 1, 2009 at The Times Center in New York City, "The Feast" will gather the world's leading creative entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, doers and thinkers to inspire more action, share best practices, and create valuable connections that will change ...Read More
For graduating students at Stanford University, it's all too clear that the economy's in the tank. The venture capital industry, with its epicenter just down the road, is stalled. The unemployment rate in Santa Clara County has doubled in the ...Read More
Neal Keny-Guyer SOM '82, the chief executive officer of the humanitarian organization Mercy Corps, has been elected to a six-year term on the Yale Corporation. Yale alumni who voted over the past two months chose Keny-Guyer for one of the Corporation's ...Read More
Ventures in Development (www.venturesindev.org ) is again hosting its newly launched initiative, the Social Innovation Salon - a monthly after-work cocktail event that aims to stimulate a cross-disciplinary audience to generate innovative ideas that address particular social issues. Date: 6/13 (this ...Read More
Community-led creative and arts based social enterprises are addressing the most complex social or environmental needs The creative heart of social enterprise - Times Online. Read More
We are a social enterprise that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for rural and urban populations where the quality of water is often the cause of more than 60% of common health ailments. Our business is designed around scalable innovations, ...Read More
The Difference Between Biodynamic and Organic Wines - organic wine, biodynamic wine, rudolf steiner, sofism, industrialization, CCOF, CSWA. Read More
Paul Dudley Hart, a Mercy Corps senior vice president, noted that America has lessons to learn from China as well. "You have taken more people out of poverty than any other country in history..." he said. via The Business of Giving ...Read More