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• Teny Gross at the #BIF8 Summit: The Importance of Being Civilized

  
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  We are kicking of this BIF curated series with a video of #BIF8 Summit storyteller and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, Teny Gross. As a crusader for nonviolence, Teny and his streetworkers are igniting peace in urban Providence. Never shying away from the hard truths ...
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• Something different for Northern Ireland

  
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  Thanks to the Building Change Trust , we’ve been travelling around Northern Ireland meeting people with a plan to run a large programme in Derry~Londonderry in June. After meeting with a lot of lovely people who were enthusiastic about the process, we think we were taking the wrong approach for Northern Ireland ...
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• Social Innovations: A Braille Smartphone

  
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  Even as the draft Treaty for the Blind gets watered down and seems to be heading towards a failure  (due to "competing" corporate copyright interests), an Indian company Kriyate Design Solutions seems  to be on the road to making more every day things accessible to print impaired people by introducing the worlds ...
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• Need money for your idea? Creative financing starts locally

  
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  Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation is a New Orleans-based nonprofit whose mission is to tackle the city’s toughest challenges by supporting the creative solutions of its community members. Guest blogger Julia Stewart talks about community-focused ways to finance your nonprofit or social venture when ...
  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, ...
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• Cut loose imagination. . .

  
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  Posted on www.UrbanDaily.org
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• Slums are Necessary

  
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  On the outskirts of some of the world’s largest cities exists an informal way of life. It’s unlike any other. To most, these spaces are defined as slums, shantytowns, or favelas. The list of stigmatized words associated with these settlements is never ending. Regardless of their delineation, the sheer mention of ...
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• Spring arrives in Belfast; we go to Omagh and NICVA

  
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  Spring has finally arrived in the UK, and even in Northern Ireland – we’ve seen buds on trees and everyone’s looking up and hopeful. We had a great session yesterday at the Idea Centre at South West College in Omagh – this is the sort of resource that we wish we had at school: all sorts of fantastic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Creativity inversely proportional to Efficiency?

  
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  Came across a very interesting talk on creativity by Randa Grob-Zakhary from LEGO Foundation and its role in changing some of the toughest problems in the world. She raises important thoughts on how we all are "genius" at the age of three and how creativity diminishes with age, and what can we do in our day-to-day ...
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• Call for Proposals – We’re Putting Together A Conference in New York!

  
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  Call for Abstracts The Culture of Cities Centre, in conjunction with The Centre for Social Innovation,  Fales Library of New York University,and York University, invites abstracts for an upcoming conference: Poeticizing the Urban [...]
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• 3 funding opportunities to help you jumpstart your ideas this spring

  
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  Spring is in the air—along with a new set of top-notch innovation contests with equally delightful prizes. Now’s the time to pitch that creative project you’ve been mulling over all winter! GOOD’s Start Something That Matters Challenge There’s nowhere to go but up. WHO: Any social entrepreneur ...
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• Entrepreneurship Is Fueling Global Change

  
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  Ah, Entrepreneurship… Entrepreneurship is now fueling the world’s quests to end epidemics, resolve inequities and poverty, increase education and care for our natural resources.    Three forces – government environment, bottoms up desire for skills/learning, and conscious capital — have come ...
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• Smojoe freecycles 336 glass jars to the Bleecker Wellesley Activity Network

  
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  Sometimes things happen for a reason. When I last visited my parent’s farm, they insisted I remove a stack of glass jars that I’d been warehousing in their garage. Four years earlier, I had purchased 40 cases of 8oz glass jars, which are the wrong size for packing honey.  The eight ounce jar is perfect for ...
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• A Real-life Gaming Perspective at Building Communities and Bringing People Together

  
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  Sweden is one of the most developed countries in the world where the thought of power cuts and blackout is never questioned. It is due to the same reason that all the systems are very much dependent on electricity. But in case of an electricity cut, many things are shut down. And yesterday was one such day. But I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Project M Celebrates 10 Years of Thinking Wrong

  
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    Project M , one of the first design-for-good initiatives, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special session in Greensboro, AL this June. The session will include a reunion of the growing network of changemakers proving the power of design to uplift and change lives. In 2003, designer John Bielenberg ...
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• Call for Ideas update: up to £5,000 prize for winner

  
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  We’ve been running a few events during our Call for Ideas , now, and meeting lots of interesting folk. The ideas are starting to trickle in, and that’s great. We’re most excited today, however, to announce that UnLtd have agreed to fund the idea that shows the most promise at the end of the weekend with an ...
  4 weeks ago

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