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  • The Rise and Rise of Social Enterprise (and the bloodbath that precedes it) | futuristpaul


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    The Rise and Rise of Social Enterprise (and the bloodbath that precedes it) | futuristpaul : Paul Higgins writes a thoughtful piece about the future of not-for-profit businesses, and their need to develop for-profit business models to survive and to continue to do good work.  In the States (Paul is in Australia) we ...
    1 week ago
  • Nonprofit Tweets of the Week - May 10, 2013


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      Ill be on Nonprofit Radio today at 10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET talking with Tony about Dan Pallotta s viral video on TED, The way we think about charity is dead wrong . You can catch us live or on iTunes. Listen to Depeche Modes Wrong as you peruse this weeks list of tweets: Pro Publica : Announcing ...
    1 week ago
  • An interview with Prof. Calvin Jones: “Economics is a child of the oil age”


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    The other day I read an excellent piece by Calvin Jones, Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School (see right) called Technology Cannot Tackle Climate Change .  Having argued that, due to a range of issues, economic growth is no longer possible, he writes: “Faced with these issues it is easy to withdraw ...
    1 week ago
  • What does Transition look like in South Africa?


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    Here’s a fantastic video from DW (“Germany’s International Broadcaster”) about Transition in South Africa.  It is a clip from a longer programme called ‘Global 3000: The Globalisation Program’ , and it looks at the work of Transition Town Greyton  in South Africa.  It is a fascinating response to the ...
    1 week ago
  • Mountain Shepherds – Leading Community-Backed Tourism In The Garhwal Himalayas


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    Ecologically sustainable wildlife tourism is best handled by local communities and the homestays run by Mountain Shepherds in the villages of Lata and Tolma in the Dhauli Ganga valley in Garhwal illustrate just that. Abutting the wild and pristine Nanda Devi National Park, Mountain Shepherds is an offshoot of the ...
    1 week ago
  • Interviewed: Dhaval Chadha on Brazil’s First Incubator


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    Hello Dhaval! We met several years ago when you asked me in as an advisor for Cria , the first shared-value branding group in Brazil. Last year you implemented the first startup incubator in Brazil, Pipa . Did Pipa evolve out of Cria naturally? Yes, Pipa came out of my experiences with Cria, but is much broader ...
    1 week ago
  • Hail the Cherry-Tree Café, #Wanstead


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    Cherry-tree Community Café opening and launch party Friday 14th June 2013 A new community based café with an ethos of delivering good quality coffee and food in a supported employment environment.HAIL will be celebrating the opening of their new community café on Friday 14th of June, with a Café Launch ...
    1 week ago
  • Socially Responsible Businesses Get a Boost from Local Governments


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      In the past year, San Francisco and Philadelphia have taken an exciting lead in encouraging socially responsible businesses by offering them financial incentives. In April 2012, San Francisco passed an ordinance granting California Benefit Corporations a bidding preference on city contracts. During each ...
    1 week ago
  • SBIO 2013 Semi-finalist: The Amplification Project


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    SBIO semi-finalist the Amplification Project is hoping to help corporations, foundations, and policymakers solve their biggest problems. The company seeks to drive change for social and environmental issues using strategic communication methods supported by rigorous policy research and data. The post SBIO 2013 ...
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  • Next Monday: Webinar – ‘Local Economic Blueprints: pioneering or pointless?’


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    On May 13th at 1pm BST , Transition Network and Resilience.org will be hosting a Webinar entitled  Local Economic Blueprints: pioneering or pointless? and you are cordially invited to join us (details for how to watch it will be posted here at the end of the week).  It will look in more depth at the recently ...
    1 week ago
  • VSee Telehealth – Unexpected Social Enterprise for BoP Health Care


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    VSee started as a simple desire to create a group video chat app that 1) didn’t drop calls and freeze video like Skype and that 2) protected privacy by not going through servers like Google Hangouts. The result was a simple video conference and fast screen share tool that uses a fraction of the bandwidth of ...
    1 week ago
  • Britain is turning its back on co-operative insurance


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    Plans to sell off the Co-operative Groups insurance operations will mark a historic shift, while appetite for co-op insurance continues elsewhere The Co-operative Group recently announced that it wants to sell off its general insurance operations . If it goes ahead, it will mean the end of almost a century and a ...
    1 week ago
  • SBIO 2013 Semi-finalist Interview: Thread


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    Ian Rosenberger visited Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake with the intention of assisting with relief efforts by taking photos and donating the profits to an NGO. However, overwhelmed by poverty during his visit to the Francophone island, he wanted to do more, and created Thread. Thread’s mission is to ...
    1 week ago
  • VMC Weekly Round-Up: Stuff on Cloud Computing, Getting Employees to ‘Socialize,’ and Creating Better Games


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    The VMC Weekly Round-Up is a recurring digest of articles that we’ve found particularly noteworthy and/or interesting in the last week. We cull from our Twitter accounts ( here and here ) throughout the week and picked out the most popular tweets and the ones we liked the most*. THIS WEEK IN GENERAL TECH: “ ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Nonprofit Tweets of the Week - May 3, 2013


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      The story of the week for me was Jason Collins coming out ( Sports Illustrated ). Hope to see this lead to widespread support among all the influential superstars (because they can turn minds), less bullying, and more acceptance. Bob Dylan called it:  The Times They Are A-Changin  Have a listen while ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Kao-pan-suk – Spreading happiness through organic rice


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    Thailand’s flood crisis in 2011 gave birth to legacies that were designed to prevent future floods from reaching the 2011 magnitude – flood walls, drainage systems, response teams, coordination centers, warning systems among other projects were created in the wake of the catastrophe by government as well as ...
    2 weeks ago
  • A business that remains in paper


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    Abhinav Gangumalla from ‘Hyderabad Goes Green’, and Renu Rao from ‘Deckle Edge’, a designer store, have recognised the “social enterprise” opportunity hidden in paper waste and worked together to build ‘WE Recycle—Women Empowerment thru’ Recycling’, which was launched on Earth … Continue reading ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Social Project.PH aims to raise crowdfunding for social enterprises


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    Social Project.PH is a crowdfunding platform that focuses on socially- and environmentally-relevant projects in the Philippines. Crowdfunding platforms are a dime-a-dozen today. While a few notable ones dominate in artistic projects, some focus on niche applications and sectors. In the Philippines, local ...
    2 weeks ago
  • An April Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition


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    We start this month’s Round Up with the first of two awards we’ll be giving out this month, the ‘Dedication to Transition Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award’.  It goes to David and Mark of Transition Keynsham , who will be taking part in the Exmouth Exodus bike ride to raise much needed funds for ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Empowerment Plan: Social Innovation Style in Detroit


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    The Empowerment Plan is a non-profit business innovation founded in 2011 by then 19-year-old Creative Studies design student Veronika Scott. One in 42 Detroit, Michigan, residents are homeless , in a city that experiences below-freezing temperatures or less throughout the winter months.  With this in mind, ...
    2 weeks ago

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