Echoing Green’s Spark * Blog documents news, trends, and the true life of social entrepreneurs. The spark in Spark * Blog comes from Echoing Green’s goal to seed social entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas for positive change. Contact us directly (we’d love to hear from you) or add your comments into the mix.
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Mike Balaban
Andrew Holm
Sarah Petrey
Rick and Patti Wayne
Jalak Jobanputra
Are you a twitterer? Do you tweet? Are you twitty? If you think I’m writing in a foreign language, you need to join Twitter, a social networking service that’s taking the internet by storm. We know how fast paced the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship fields are, so we’ve compiled a list of twittering Echoing Green Fellows to help you stay updated. Follow them and see how they are sparking social change around the world!
Doug Ulman
Livestrong
1999 Echoing Green Fellow
@LivestrongCEO
We’re thrilled to be a part of the new Jobs for Change website launched last week by Change.org. The site features job postings from nonprofits, government, and social enterprises as well as blog posts and career advice. The site is useful, easy to navigate, and it looks really really great. Congratulations to the team that put this together! We look forward to building a movement together that values careers with meaningful impact.
Last week, our newsletter asked the question, "What is President Obama’s Social Innovation Agenda and what does it mean for nonprofits and the social sector?"
Are you or someone you know a social entrepreneur of Indian origin? If so, you may be interested in these two exciting opportunities!
Who are America's best social entrepreneurs?
That's a familiar question for those of us at Echoing Green, but one not often asked by main-stream media. That's why we were excited to see BusinessWeek announce its inaugural search for social entrepreneurs. Twenty-five finalists will be profiled online, and readers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites.
Nominees must be:
In 1987, Public Enemy released their debut album, Yo!
Check out this great opportunity from our friends at SocialEdge.org:
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) is a capacity building program for leaders of social benefit enterprises run by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society.
Looking for stories about social entrepreneurship? Author Wilford Welch has written an inspiring new book, featuring stories from twenty-seven social entrepreneurs—including Echoing Green Fellows Van Jones, Priya Haji, Sasha Chanoff, and Karen Tse.
Welch and his team have also built a tool called My Circle to help young people pursue their passions. Definitely worth checking out: www.tacticsofhope.org/
Is sixty-one the new thirty? So it would seem for the fifteen winners of the 2008 Purpose Prize, an award for social entrepreneurs over the age of sixty. Civic Ventures awards the Purpose Prize annually to encourage and empower people to start “Encore Careers”—using the skills they’ve built over a lifetime of work to create innovative social change.
'Tis the season to give! Gift giving doesn’t stop in a challenging economic environment; it just becomes all the more important for gifts to be meaningful and to go further. Choose a gift that gives twice--once to your loved one, and again to a cause!
Below is a list of holiday gift giving opportunities based on social enterprises supported by Echoing Green.
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