Echoing Green News

We’re excited to announce our participation in the Social Entrepreneur API project.  This open source database is a collection of data about individual changemakers taken directly from funders of social entrepreneurs (such as Civic Ventures, Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and

Posted by: Anthony
February 23, 2010 - 4:26pm

In the third second edition of the Jobs for Change partnership, Britt Bravo interviews Zach Knowling, a consultant for M+R Strategic Services.

Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey is featured in this week's U.S. News Leadership for the Next Decade series. Cheryl discusses how social entrepreneurs have the ability to unite people across sectors for a specific cause, and the impact social entrepreneurs have in post-disaster regions like New Orleans and Haiti.

This Sunday at 8PM EST, be sure to tune in to ABC for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  This week is a special two-hour edition that features a home renovation in Buffalo, NY.   The lucky recipient of the makeover is Delores Powell and her four children.

Two Echoing Green Fellows were featured on Monday in an article titled, Managing Disasters with Small Steps.  The article highlights “innovative approaches to building or rebuilding infrastructure in developing countries, to help forestall disasters or, as in Haiti, recover from one."

Echoing Green extends our sincere thanks to board member Paul Graves and everyone who made his matching challenge, Paul’s Pledge, not only reach the goal of $50,000 but exceed it!   

Having just announced our 350 semifinalists, we are well on our way to selecting Echoing Green’s Class of 2010. At this pivotal time in the field of social innovation, we will look to this next generation of visionaries to attain new heights of impact – and this incredible contribution will help ensure that these leaders thrive.

We are reprinting a letter from 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Peter Haas whose organization AIDG works on the ground in Haiti. 

Dear AIDG Supporters,

At approximately 4:55 pm Eastern on Tuesday Port Au Prince experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, with aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.7. There is widespread damage to infrastructure with numerous collapsed buildings. It is anticipated there will be a high casualty rate

Additional photos can be found here: twitter.com/photomorel

We’re sure many of you have been anxiously awaiting this decision, and after nearly 6 weeks of waiting the time has finally come - part 2 of the announcement of semifinalists!  See below for the list of semifinalist organizations M-Z. Congratulations to all of our semifinalists!

Once again, we want to thank all of our applicants for submitting their ideas and wish everyone the best of luck in continuing to make the world a better place.

2010 Echoing Green Semifinalists (M - Z)

Make A Difference
Make It Simple Smartie
MASS
Medha

Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey and Paul Schmitz, chief executive of Public Alliess co-authored the article, "Social Innovation Fund Sends Important Signal to Grant Makers," which was featured in this week's Chronicle of Philanthropy. Cheryl and Paul served on the Obama transition team and helped inform the administration's work in social innovation.

Echoing Green is proud to announce that 350 incredible emerging social change organizations have been selected as semifinalists in our 2010 fellowship competition.  We received nearly 1,100 ideas for social change from nearly 70 countries around the world, and the announcement of our semifinalists is always very exciting.  As always, the Echoing Green staff and experienced evaluators were inspired and encouraged by the ideas, passion and enthusiasm for social change captured in the applications we received.