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Share Our Strength Signs Social Franchise Agreement With Winestyles 
Share our Strenght, March 9, 2007
Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading organizations working to end childhood hunger in America, and WineStyles, the nation's largest wine store franchise, announced today that Share Our Strength will become a WineStyles franchisee, initially in Washington, D.C. The companies will also launch a national cause-marketing partnership, establishing Share Our Strength as the official national charity of WineStyles, to help Share Our Strength ensure the over 12 million American children facing hunger have the nutritious food they need to learn, grow and thrive.
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Pierre Omidyar - Empower Seller
By Bill Breen , FastCompany.com, March, 2007
Pierre Omidyar turned eBay into the most successful company of the dotcom era. EBay likewise turned its founder into a multibillionaire, and in 1999, Omidyar set up a charitable foundation. But he tired of the nonprofit sector, and in 2004 he shuttered the foundation, instead launching Omidyar Network to fund both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that create social value.
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Converting from Non-profit to For-profit Status
Social Edge, February 9, 2007
Should you consider changing your organization's status from non-profit to for-profit? Patrick O'Heffernan lays out the five key questions to ask before you make the decision.
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A model to eradicate false gulf between doing good and doing well
By Philip Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir , Financial Times, January 26, 2007
Sir, John Gapper's column "Anyone can become the CEO of You Inc" (January 22) relating to the "Shifting Power Equation" under discussion at Davos focuses on the newly distributed power to achieve celebrity. Potentially more interesting is the newly distributed power to create change. Along these lines, the event of the week may have been the 2007 Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit that just concluded in Zurich.
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Class Acts
By Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2007
A new breed of young Bay Area philanthropists redefines the meaning -- and methods -- of giving.
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More Businesses and Investors Emerging to Do Good, xigi 'Social Networking' Map Shows
Yahoo News, January 10, 2007
The market for businesses and investors that do good just came into focus thanks to new online maps that track the fast-growing but still emerging capital market that includes fair trade, microfinance, social enterprise, independent media and clean technology.
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Social entrepreneurs set out to change India
By Frederick Noronha, India News, January 7, 2007
They call themselves social entrepreneurs and their business is to make the world a better place. Donning various roles and leading various organisations, these men and women are not only winning praise for their innovativeness but helping to change the lives of communities they touch with their altruism.
Pioneering Indian names like Stan Thaekkaekara, Milind Ranade, Vishal Talreja, Sunil Abraham, Anand Shah, Rahul Barkatky and Shalabh Sahai among others are building and sharing ideas on how entrepreneurs can help re-engineer society - even while earning profits.
A social entrepreneur recognises a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage a venture to make social change. Unlike business entrepreneurs, they don't measure performance in profit and returns but assess success by the impact they have on society and often work through non-profit and citizen groups.
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Unitus Reaches 1 Million of the World’s Working Poor
Unitus, December 6, 2006
Innovative approach brings life-changing loans and opportunity to 1 million micro-entrepreneurs.
Unitus, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing global poverty by increasing access to microfinance, today announced that its worldwide portfolio of microfinance partners is now reaching more than 1 million small entrepreneurs with empowering loans. These loans of as little as $100 enable the working poor to start small businesses and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
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Fla. for-profit services keep groups afloat
By Mary Shedden, Tampa Tribune, November 24, 2006
More than 30,000 times a year, a TransCare ambulance responds to a call for help. The emergency medical technicians who respond don't think about how or whether this 10-year-old business makes money. They're on the job to transport people to local hospitals, getting them to the help they need.
The fact is, TransCare's medical transportation services turn a profit - last year, to the tune of $600,000. That money translates into something even more vital: a significant financial contribution to the programs at the nonprofit Crisis Center of Tampa Bay.
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Acumen Fund: A Charity With an Unusual Interest in the Bottom Line
By Jennifer Lee, The New York Times, November 14, 2006
The idea befuddled donors and Internal Revenue Service lawyers alike when Jacqueline Novogratz approached them six years ago. A philanthropic venture capital fund?
On one hand, the Acumen Fund would be a nonprofit charity. On the other, it would invest in companies and groups that tackled global poverty.
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What's Wrong With Profit? 
By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times, November 13, 2006
The Philanthropreneurs: A new breed of billionaires are out to harness the marketplace as a force for doing good in the underdeveloped world. From left, Sir Richard Branson, Pierre Omidyar and Jeffrey S. Skoll.
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Social What?
Regeneration and Renewal, November 10, 2006
Social enterprises are currently in vogue. Embraced across the party divide, their potential to support communities and deliver public services is being widely discussed. But as Joey Gardiner reports, there is a basic problem: few can agree exactly what a social enterprise is.
Next Thursday, the Government is due to launch its long-awaited - and long-delayed - action plan for social enterprise. Expected to lay out the Government's ambitions for the future of these increasingly influential businesses, the plan will also set out concrete policy measures to support them.
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Peru: NGO Bill Threatens Human Rights
Human Rights Watch, November 9, 2006
A bill in Peru’s Congress allowing the government to interfere with the activities of nongovernmental organizations would undermine human rights protections in Peru, Human Rights Watch said in a letter sent to President Alan García on Tuesday.
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From weapons of war to great coffee
By Amber Henshaw, BBC News, October 31, 2006
In his workshop in Mekele, just 120 km from Ethiopia's border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zeleke is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines. Most of the shells are left over from the 1998-2000 war between the two countries.
The workshop is made up of three quite small ramshackle rooms that lead from one to another with sunlight coming through the gaps, but it is a hive of activity for Mr Azmeraw and his six staff.
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India has most innovative social entrepreneurs: Schwab
By Murali Krishnan, Hindustan Times, October 31, 2006
India is a key country to look for leading social entrepreneurs, says Klaus Schwab, executive chairman and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), as his Schwab Foundation prepares to shortlist a winner for the Indian Social Entrepreneur Award for the second year.
"India has some of the most advanced and innovative social entrepreneurs. We believe and already see that many of the models developed in India, for instance rainwater harvesting for schools pioneered by Barefoot College, are exported around the world. India is therefore a key country to look for leading social entrepreneurs," Klaus Schwab said in an exclusive interview.
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Finance: Homelessness bodies warm to social enterprise
By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, October 4, 2006
Most homelessness charities are ineligible for grant funding from
government and are instead turning to social enterprise to raise
revenue, according to a new study.
Access to Enterprise, put together by Off the Streets and Into Work (OSW) and Social Enterprise London, found that charities labelling themselves 'small and intrepid' are the most likely to consider social enterprise ventures.
The results of the study, which was funded by the ChangeUp programme have prompted OSW to form a network to deliver training and consultancy to homelessness groups that want to use the social enterprise model to help their beneficiaries.
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Exploding Philanthropy: What the Clinton Global Initiative Meant
By Tom Watson, onPhilathropy, September 27, 2006
Clinton’s confab was part of a discernible trend in "philanthropy" - that is today, the rapid deconstruction of the accepted term. The reach and economic might of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the disposal of Warren Buffett's fortune, the creation of the loosely for-profit Google.org, Branson's "gift," and the kind of economic studies that come out of the World Economic Forum and the Milken Global Conference all point in the direction of blurring the boundaries between philanthropy, business, and nonprofits.
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D.I.Y. Venture Capitalists
By Catharine Livingston, Good Magazine, September 22, 2006
Kiva is a pioneer microfinance website launched in 2005 by Matt and Jessica Flannery. The first website to link average income lenders to specific business people in developing countries, Kiva makes it possible for anyone with a few extra bucks to help an impoverished stranger jumpstart their career. Would-be investors log on to Kiva, scan through profiles of low-income entrepreneurs - say, a man who wants to open a shoe shop in Honduras or a goat farmer in Uganda - and shell out as little as $25, via PayPal, to the recipient of their choice. While some of the loans accrue interest, most are simply paid back over the next year. Whether it's a loan or an investment, the money provided through Kiva is a vital influx of capital for fledgling businesses around the world.
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Low-cost schools in poor nations seek investors
By James Tooley, Financial Times, September 17, 2006
William Easterly dedicates his recent book The White Man’s Burden to 10-year-old Amaretch, an Ethiopian girl whose name means “beautiful one”, and the millions of children like her. Her days are spent collecting branches to sell for a pittance. She wants to go to school but her parents cannot afford it. “Could one of you,” he asks, of entrepreneurs of all kinds, “discover a way to put a firewood-laden Ethiopian pre-teen girl named Amaretch in school?”
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Nonprofit Sector Has Mixed Reactions to Google's For-Profit Charity
By Christopher Quay, Tax Notes Today, September 15, 2006
Members of the nonprofit community have had mixed reactions to Google's for-profit charity, which was formed to address the same problems as a nonprofit without the limitations -- or benefits -- that come with section 501(c)(3) exemption.
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Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual
By Katie Hafner, The New York Times, September 14, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay taxes.
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Super-rich in move to ease African poverty
By Celia Dugger, Theage.com, September 14, 2006
FINANCIER and philanthropist George Soros has offered $US50 million ($A66 million) to support a vast social experiment that aims to help villages in Africa escape grinding poverty.
The announcement came on the same day that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it was teaming with the Rockefeller Foundation to commit $US150 million ($A200 million) to increasing agricultural productivity in Africa.
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The bitter cost of ‘fair trade’ coffee
By Hal Weitzman, Financial Times, September 8, 2006
“No certifier is able to check that at no time are workers paid below minimum wage,” says Luuk Zonneveld, Managing Director of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) in Bonn. “This issue comes up everywhere. Poor people struggle to pay their workers fairly.”
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Learning the Art of Giving
By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine, September 4, 2006
Charitable donations in [Asia] have traditionally tended to be a private affair, with the rich quietly giving directly to needy individuals within a family, religion or village network. Now, with tens of thousands of Asians amassing fortunes so large they can no longer responsibly give away substantial sums on a personal, ad hoc basis, professionally run philanthropic foundations like those that arose in the West in the late 19th century are coming to the fore.
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The Science Of Giving
By Shivani Lath, Business Today, August 27, 2006
India Inc. and its residents are waking up to the difference between charity and philanthropy. That could, as several works-in-progress demonstrate, result in some good.
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A Firm Foundation
By Andrew Bossone, Business Today, August 14, 2006
Laila Iskandar and her Community and Institutional Development group (CID) took home the Schwab Foundation’s honor for Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Egypt. We look at how she and her fellow nominees are setting out to change the economy as we understand it today.
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Giving it to the Gateses
www.allavida.org, August, 2006
The big news in the world of philanthropy is Warren Buffett’s decision to give the bulk of his reputed $44 billion fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. What do the people who advise donors think about it and its likely effects on donor behaviour? Alliance asked three of them whether they thought it was the beginning of a new trend, part of an existing trend, or simply an isolated act of startling generosity.
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The Other Side of the Story: Q&A with the Global Fund for Women
By Alisha Fernandez, On Philathropy, August 9, 2006
As philanthropy becomes increasingly integrated into business functions, corporate grantmakers often find themselves faced with the same measurements and indicators as other corporate units. What is our bottom line? How are we performing? And perhaps more importantly, how can we become more effective in our giving?
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Philanthropy lends a helping hand
By Bonnie Harris, desMoinesRegister.com, August 2, 2006
Social Venture Partners lets people do more than just write a check. They commit time, professional skills — and money — to causes.
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The kinder side of MBAs?
By Peter Walker, CNN.com, August 1, 2006
(CNN) -- MBAs are all about making more money in the future, right? Not always. Some top business schools are teaching that success is not only measured by the bottom line.
Increasing numbers of MBA courses now emphasize the importance of a social conscience, beyond just the confines of the not-for-profit world.
An early example was the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School, in operation since 1993. Another leading exponent is the Center for the Advancement of Social Enterprise at Duke University.
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A Small Charity Takes Lead in Fighting a Disease
By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times, July 31, 2006
PATNA, India — The drug that could have cured Munia Devi through a series of cheap injections was identified decades ago but then died in the research pipeline because there was no profit in it.
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Permira pledges €1m cash for social enterprise
By James Quinn & Caroline Muspratt, Telegraph.co.uk, July 24, 2006
British private equity house Permira is to launch a two-year philanthropic initiative investing time and money into the social enterprise sector.
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Venture Fundraising: A Pioneering Nonprofit Breaks With Tradition
By Adriana Dolgetta, On Philanthropy, July 19, 2006
With the recent shift in the nonprofit sector towards an increasingly business-like mode of operations, it may not be surprising that fundraising for nonprofits is beginning to move in the same direction. There are stirrings of change throughout the philanthropic sea, and we caught up with one of those proverbial boats on the water, making its own way using a groundbreaking new funding partnership that has changed the way fundraising may look in the future. YouthNoise is a nonprofit that describes itself as an online community for youth activists, “a virtual conference hall, playground, coffee shop, and classroom” for youths making a difference around the world. As a highly successful enterprise, the organization has large amounts of potential. Recently, the group found a way to maximize that potential through a strategy that employs the same kinds of methods as those championed by businesses seeking funds to start or expand their operations.
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Unclaimed assets can fund social enterprise
By Ronald Cohen, Financial Times, July 11, 2006
We are witnessing the beginning of a massive new wave of social entrepreneurship that is likely to rival the wave of business entrepreneurship over the past 30 years. Leading business figures such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, Jeff Skoll, Sir Tom Hunter, Sir Peter Lampl and numerous others in the UK and in the US are devoting their time and money to solving social issues around the globe. What is new is that they are using their own capital and are adopting private sector techniques to address the wide-ranging challenges of poverty. Just this past week, the Wellcome Trust announced a bond issue to enhance its ability to carry out its charitable work. This is the first time a UK charity has accessed the capital markets as private sector investors do.
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How Business-NGO Partnerships Can Transform Markets
By Shilpa Shah, GreenBiz.com, July, 2006
A recent Ethical Corporation conference delved into the dynamics of partnerships between business and non-governmental organizations.
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Strings Attached
By Christopher Conkey, The wall Street Journal, July 3, 2006
Warren Buffett's decision to hand over tons of money to a trusted organization is an old-school way of charitable giving: Take this check, put it to good use.
Increasingly, though, wealthy donors are opting for a more hands-on approach, giving money on the condition that the charity take their management advice, too. In many cases, fledgling nonprofits, in exchange for new funding, agree to let benefactors overhaul their business models, make personnel changes and install financial controls.
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Warren Buffett Gives Away His Fortune
CSR Wire, June 26, 2006
The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Cool Tools for the Third World
Time Magazine, May 29, 2006
From internet anntenas bolted to trees to pedal power laptops, they are bringing 21st centyry advencements to those who need them the most.
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Let this social enterprise malarkey bloom
By Jonathan Guthrie, Financial Times, May 25, 2006
I gained an insight into how it must feel to belong to a messianic cult at the opening of Jamie Oliver's new restaurant, Fifteen Cornwall, last week. The arrival of the late-running television chef and social entrepreneur was anticipated with as many premature prophecies as the Second Coming by the gaggle of public relations, reporters and other hangers-on. I had sneaked in past a security cordon set up to exclude the terminally uncool. As the only attendee who had interpreted "casual dress" as "tweed suit", I remained vulnerable to summary expulsion.
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Incubating entrepreneurs
By Nicole Keller, IDB America, May 2, 2006
In Chile, a novel training program pairs business-school students with low-income entrepreneurs in a mutually enriching partnership
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The Nonprofit Motive
By MATTHEW RICHTER, The Stranger, April 27, 2006
Nonprofit organizations are falling apart. The founder of Consolidated Works looks at the ills plaguing the organizations designed to save humanity, and points to a cure.
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Young, gifted and not for profit
By Peter Day, BBC News, April 25, 2006
In the 19th century, it was charities that changed society, charities responding to the new urban problems of industrialisation.
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Barefoot evangelist who helps the poor pull themselves up by their own bootstraps
By Sara Wajid, The Times Higher Education Supplement, April 21, 2006
'Bunker' Roy has preached 'people's' solutions to help the impoverished learn and earn for more than 30 years. Sara Wajid met the darling of the social entrepreneurs.
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International Gathering Seeks to Give 'Social Investing' Mass Appeal
By Nicole Wallace, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 20, 2006
Al Gore is so convinced that companies whose operations are socially and environmentally responsible have a competitive edge over other businesses, the former vice president has started an investment-management company based on that principle.
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Charities in firing line of Russian law
CNN.com, April 17, 2006
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia has brought into force a new law that critics say gives officials a free hand to harass charities and human rights groups they do not like.
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Orange County, Calif., meeting applies business methods to social services
By John Gittelsohn, The Orange County Register, March 25, 2006
Mar. 25--The setting was classic Newport Beach: Valet parking, catered hors d'oeuvres, wine served to 60 guests at a spacious home in the gated One Ford Road community. The subject seemed out of place: Third World poverty and how to help with small-scale bank loans.
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The casual-trousered philanthropists
By Andrew Jack, Financial Times, March 11, 2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest charity and spends more each year on health and education than the World Health Organisation. Andrew Jack joins the Gateses on a tour of Bangladesh and India and asks why they give away so much - and how much good it's actually doing.
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Ashoka's 'Social Entrepreneurship Series' Premiers on Google's Video Marketplace: Landmark Series on Social Entrepreneurship Available on Latest Google Innovation
PR Newswire US, March 3, 2006
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public announced today the release of its new "Social Entrepreneurship Series" on Google's latest video service, Google Video Store. The Series, produced in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, is the first-ever video collection of interviews with leading global social entrepreneurs.
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Social Enterprise: The steady rise of the 'citizen sector'
By Clare Goff, Financial Times, March 1, 2006
Whenever Bill Drayton spoke about "social enterprise" in the early 1980s his comments met with blank looks. "The smart ones would call it an oxymoron," he recalls.
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Foundation names Larry Brilliant chief
By Dan Fost, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 2006
Google Inc., which has said it plans to put $1 billion into its charitable efforts, hired as its first chief of philanthropy a man who has helped eliminate smallpox in the Third World, founded a pioneering online community and rubbed elbows with the Grateful Dead.
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The New Engines of Reform
By David Gergen, US News & World Report, February 20, 2006
There won't be any sleek limousines drawing up at the door, no red carpets, no paparazzi, no Vanity Fair afterglow, and, alas, no Annie Leibovitz. But when dozens of people roll into the Mohonk Mountain House in the Hudson Valley this week, they'll be holding their own Oscar party--one celebrating the stars of a new group of emerging leaders in the United States.
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How the not-for-profit sector became big business
By Simon Caulkin, The Observer, February 12, 2006
WHEN TONY BLAIR, David Cameron and the Department of Health all want a piece of the same action, cynics start to wonder. When the bigwigs in Davos jostle to get in there too, wondering turns to suspicion. Can 'social entrepreneurship' really be the white hope for British health, bringing water to Third World slums and alleviating world poverty?
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Foundation's New Web-Site Director Aims for Global Reach
By Peter Panepento, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 26, 2006
The Skoll Foundation was looking for an almost impossible combination of skills when it began seeking an executive director to oversee Social Edge its Web site for social entrepreneurs.
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Nonprofit Brands: Don't waste their power
By Regina Maruca, Value, January 23, 2006
VALUE RECENTLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH JOHN A. QUELCH OF THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ABOUT THE VALUE OF NONPROFIT BRANDS.
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Business leaders fight poverty Organization to urge others - Alleviating problem a High Priority
By Seattle Times Staff, Seattle Times, November 20, 2005
Organizations working to fight global poverty abound. But few if any have recruited the nation's foremost business leaders to take the problem on, contends a group of prominent local citizens who are doing just that. The Initiative for Global Development was founded in 2003 by leaders including Daniel Evans, a former U.S. senator and governor; William Gates Sr., co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Bill Clapp, chairman of Global Partnerships, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization working to alleviate global poverty through on-the-ground projects. The initiative is considered the advocacy arm of Global Partnerships.
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