The Buzz 3-18-11

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Here's our quick read on the top tweets, news, and buzz circulating in the field of social entrepreneurship and changemaking this week. What's got you talking?

• The “wdydwyd?” Project is a worldwide community-art project, created by Tony Deifell, that challenges people to answer the question, “Why do you do what you do?” 2010 Echoing Green Fellow and founder of the Empowering Spirits Foundation, A. Latham Staples, shares his point of view. What is yours? http://ht.ly/4ij8w

• Our President, Cheryl L. Dorsey, moderated a panel at The Daily Beast’s Women in the World Conference last week. With IDEO’s Jocelyn Wyatt (soon to be lead for IDEO.org), Solar Sister’s Eva Walusimbi, and ExxonMobil’s Pam Darwin, the panel talked women, tools, and technology. Watch it here: http://ht.ly/4ijaQ

• In four short years, nearly 400 individuals and companies are certified B Corporation’s. Turns out, it's a pretty painless process with a number of benefits, beyond just the warm and fuzzy feeling of advancing a company that is mindful of its stakeholders, not just its shareholders. http://ht.ly/4ijjQ

• Big news on our end—Work on Purpose, our newest book, is on its way to the printer! When passion drives your choices and your talents shine, opportunities abound. But you can't get there if you don’t know where or how to start. Our hope is that Work on Purpose will help you get there. Stay tuned for the ePublication very soon and the book in early April. In the meantime, have a look at the evolution of the cover: http://ht.ly/4ijcR

• Lines for Apple’s iPad2 were out the door, around the block, and beyond. Just like your old mobile phones, though, don’t toss those old iPads into a drawer. Return them to an Apple store and Teach for America will donate them to a teacher in a low-income community. A pretty good way to make yourself feel a little better about upgrading. http://ht.ly/4ijkY

• A few opportunities that recently crossed our radar:

           - Acumen Fund East Africa Regional Fellows
           - NYU Global Social Change Leadership Institute
           - SOCAP Europe Scholarships
           - One Acre Fund

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