Entries Tagged as 'entrepreneurship'

B Corporation - For Good, For Profit

June 23rd, 2008 by mikekarnj

With the rise of shady corporations like Enron and shady executives like the ones at Bear Sterns turning themselves in for fraud, the corporate world has turned into a profit-guzzling machine.  It'...
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ecopop - ideas too good to waste

June 20th, 2008 by Michael Cox

Chad Rea spent a career in advertising working with over 130 iconic brands. Then, in 2002, inspired by world travel he started 86 the onions with the goal of changing the ad agency blueprint. Now ...
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StartingBloc - Better, Faster, Stronger More Creative

May 27th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

ADB and Behance are pumped about Make Good Ideas Happen, not just because it'll be a GOOD time, but because of participating groups like StartingBloc, which empowers its network to drive social cha...
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GPF #4: Technology Serving Humanity

April 30th, 2008 by Abby Goldberg

After seeing the value in providing affordable tools that greatly empowered the reading disabled, social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman was inspired to found a business that utilized technology to ser...
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GPF ISSUE 3.5: Making Social Investment HIP

April 21st, 2008 by Abby Goldberg

So, remember Rockefeller Brothers Fund President, Stephen Heintz? Well one guy spent a half hour of our media briefing challenging Heintz’ assertion that “no major social change has come from th...
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GPF #2: Changing the World One Soccer Game at A Time

April 15th, 2008 by Abby Goldberg

At lunch during the first day at the Global Philanthropy Forum, I sat next to two amazing people (one of whom I will write about in a future post). On my right sat Samuel Azout, one of the "social ...
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Got Junk Mail? Want a dollar?

April 14th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

Tired of hauling your junk mail from mailbox to recycling bin (or <shudder> trash can)? Sick of sorting through the catalogs to find your birthday cards from Grandma? Well, you're in luck....
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