social entrepreneurship

The 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship application process officially closed November 12, and we’ve been excitedly examining all 2,854 applications! We’re thrilled to have received applications from 118 countries, up from 73 in 2010.

Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) celebrated an important victory last week as Governor Palin divested $15,000 of her money from companies complicit in the Darfur genocide. Palin’s investments in "high-offender" companies were first reported by ABC News, which learned of them by drawing on the Sudan Company Report, produced annually by GI-Net.

We were thrilled to see yesterday’s issue of The New York Times Magazine, all about the things we love—social entrepreneurship, microfinance, philanthropy and how to change the world by giving.