Entries Tagged as 'social-entrepreneurialism'

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More Kiva goodness and a Nau Wardrobe

March 6th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

Kiva's been taking New York by storm and we love it. If you're in town, our friends at the Openhouse gallery are hosting a Nau shopping event to benefit Kiva. Nau is a new apparel company that ...
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The New Economics of Capitalism

February 26th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

To state the obvious, non-profit organizations often struggle to find the funding they require to fulfill their goals. As mentioned in an earlier post, this is probably one of the reasons that no...
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Cradle to Cradle, a new way to look at design and life.

February 16th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

I recently had the pleasure of watching William McDonough give talk on his new philosophy of design. He's been called a "Hero of the Planet" and has numerous other such honors. McDonough, an archi...
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One Laptop per child?

February 13th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

In 2005 an MIT Professor named Nicholas Negroponte launched the grandiose and popular plan to bring technology to the developing world, One Laptop per Child. The program is dedicated to designing ...
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