Social Entrepreneurship

Q&A with Ellen Gustafson: The new humanitarianism

July 13, 2010 Embedded Generosity

Check out this interesting chat on the TED.com blog, Q&A with Ellen Gustafson: The new humanitarianism where she talks about how to use social entrepreneurship to combat global social issues such as hunger and obesity. Ellen is co-creator of the FEED bag, a great example of what we’ve been referring to as Embedded Generosity. From [...]

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Crowdrise: Edward Norton Unveils DIY Fundraising Site

June 8, 2010 Funding

Actor Edward Norton (Fight Club and American History X) spoke today at the Mashable Media Summit to announce the launch of Crowdrise, a social good website that gives individuals and organizations the tools to organize grassroots activism campaigns and raise funds for their causes. Continue reading Full Post on Mashable.com.

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Temporary invincibility: power-ups to protect coral reefs

May 29, 2010 Puff Puff

Over the last week the team created a new power-up for Puff Puff, our iPhone game that has Embedded Generosity baked into it to help protect coral reefs. Below is a screen shot where you can see the Spiny Puffer with the latest power-up in action. The power-up appears as a force field that surrounds [...]

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Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution

April 24, 2010 Social Business

Recently we discovered a pretty inspiring video from a panel discussion titled, Natural Capitalism and Transformational Design. Panelists included Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins (two of the three authors of the book Natural Capitalism), along with Ray Anderson, Carl Bass, and Janine Benyus. Here’s the video: For those not familiar with the book itself, below [...]

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Social Entrepreneurship changing lives: Skoll World Forum

April 16, 2010 Social Business

Yesterday, Bruce Lowry, the communications director at the Skoll Foundation, posted a video showing highlights of day 2 of the Skoll World Forum. Really inspiring stuff: Follow the Forum action again today on the Virtual Forum site.

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