Posts in the "Social Enterprise" Category

• D.light lands $5.5 million to light up developing world with solar lanterns

  Energy
  

  Most people don’t know that much of the developing world is still relying on kerosene lamps for light. Kerosene is very expensive and emits toxic fumes, causing millions of deaths every year 1.6 million women and children die every year of resulting respiratory diseases, according to one source. Now one company, a small spinout from [...]

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• Yale Conference on Development Finance and Sustainable Energy

  Energy
  Growing out of the School’s 30 year tradition of exploring the complex relationships among the public, private and non-profit sectors, SOM’s Program on Social Enterprise has been exploring the intersections between development finance and sustainable energy, both within the US and in developing countries.  In particular, we want to examine whether the intentional linking of [...]

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• I Am an Entrepreneur Photography Contest | SEVEN Fund.org

  Social Enterprise
  Cambridge, MA – December 1, 2009 – The SEVEN Fund is pleased to announce the ‘I Am an Entrepreneur’ photography competition. This competition recognizes the outstanding use of photography to tell compelling stories of role model entrepreneurs from around the world. Anyone is welcome to participate in this competition. The competition will award twelve 12 [...]

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• What Matters

  Social Enterprise
  What Matters represents a new direction for McKinsey Publishing. To our long tradition of client-driven research we’ve added a new tradition: knowledge derived from convening some of the best thinkers from around the world. We began last summer by asking researchers, academics, journalists, policy makers and executives to address ten big questions, whose answers will [...]

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• Creating large-scale change: Not ‘can’ but ‘how’

  Social Enterprise
  Skeptics of social entrepreneurship often comment, “Sure, social entrepreneurs are doing good things, but can they ever scale their impact sufficiently to put a dent in the enormous and persistent problems we face?” Scaling impact is a very serious and challenging issue, but we need a better way of framing the conversation. Thus I would [...]

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• Driving change: It’s not just about size

  Social Enterprise
  On January 12 of this year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, causing destruction and suffering on a scale so massive as to defy description. Days passed before death toll estimates were released, and even now, months later, those figures remain educated guesses, as do the number of Haitians whose lives have been forever changed, [...]

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• Tipping the world: The power of collaborative entrepreneurship

  Innovation
  To question whether social entrepreneurs can achieve large-scale change is to doubt the existence of Florence Nightingale, Maria Montessori, William Wilberforce, Fazle Abed, Jimmy Wales, or the 2,700 Ashoka Fellows! After all, what defines the true social entrepreneur is that he or she simply cannot come to rest in life until his or her vision [...]

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• PopTech : Project Masiluleke

  Innovation
  

  A breakthrough approach to reversing HIV and TB in South Africa and beyond Project Masiluleke is a path-breaking effort that harnesses the power of mobile technology to address one of the world’s gravest public health crises. This ambitious initiative leverages the ubiquity of mobile devices in South Africa to help fight the country’s crippling HIV/AIDS [...]

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• Gimmie Shelter | design mind

  Design
  By Michael McDaniel – October 27, 2009 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural disaster. frog Senior Designer Michael McDaniel took this as a design challenge. His Reaction Housing System — inspired by the humble Styrofoam cup — could be deployed [...]

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• The Designers Accord

  Design
  The Designers Accord is a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders working together to create positive environmental and social impact. Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to integrate sustainability into design. The Designers Accord provides a participatory platform with online and offline manifestations so [...]

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