Are you a recent college graduate with mounds of student debt and few job prospects? An employer struggling to fill entry-level positions that require a specialized skill set? Or perhaps a parent whose child graduated over a year ago from college, and is still living at home, jobless?
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Comments | Posted December 15, 2011 | 8:00 AM
A month ago, we issued an open invitation to social entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world to submit a one-minute video on their project in our video contest. Before closing the competition on November 20th, we received close to 150 videos from over 30 countries around the world. These...
(1) Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 10:05 AM
This is how I met Elvis, one of the 68 black rhinos that are protected by the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya. Lewa is one of the organizations that have helped bring the black rhino population back from near extinction and is the founding conservancy of the Northern Rangelands...
Comments | Posted November 17, 2011 | 10:59 AM
Is "innovation" the new black? What do we mean by social innovation -- and does it really matter? How do we harness big data, create new funding mechanisms, and organize ourselves more effectively to address the world's major challenges? Can governments innovate, or is that strictly the domain of social...
(1) Comments | Posted October 30, 2011 | 10:56 PM
With the world's population set to reach 7 billion by the end of this month, there has never been a greater need to find and scale solutions to the complex societal challenges we face -- from environmental sustainability to accessible health care and education to providing access to financial services...
(3) Comments | Posted May 2, 2012 | 1:56 PM