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Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)

Podcast

Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Replication and Scale

How can an innovative player in social entrepreneurship enable her exciting new idea to fulfill her dream of changing the world? This panel discussion of successful innovators examines the challenges of replicating and scaling ideas into massive realities of social change. Experts share their varied experience in identifying the important considerations that can grow a successful neighborhood social program into a global social venture.

Nonprofits

SkollFest Wraps

By Marcia Stepanek 1

This blog is the last of Marcia Stepanek's coverage of the Skoll World Forum 2009 at Oxford University.

Nonprofits

SkollFest

By Marcia Stepanek

Reporting from the 6th annual Skoll World Forum for social innovation.

Podcast

Marc Koska - Preserving the Right to Safe Injections

In India and Africa, syringes are frequently reused, despite the obvious dangers of cross infection and death. Marc Koska talks about his involvement with Star Syringe, which designed and licensed an auto-disable syringe that prevents syringe reuse. He discusses how single-use syringe adoption is progressing in India, and also talks about the activities and aims of his charity SafePoint Trust.

Podcast

Douglas Holt - Marketing for Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship efforts need marketing as much as any business enterprise. In this audio lecture, Oxford business professor Douglas Holt asserts that there is a systematic way to learn from the marketing success of companies such as Apple, Harley Davidson, and Coca-Cola.

THE BLUE SWEATER: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Jacqueline Novogratz
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Social Innovations

It’s the Destination

Review By Pamela Hartigan 6

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz

Spring 2009

Nonprofits

Turn on the TV, Class

By Jennifer Roberts

Poor children can watch rich children's better school classes on TV.

Government

Polling Power

By Jennifer Roberts

A new Web site shows voters who like-minded peers, organizations, and opinion leaders support.

Social Innovations

Root Solutions

By Suzie Boss

Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.