social entrepreneurs

This is our favorite day of the year -- the day we announce the newest class of Echoing Green Fellows. We simply can't wait to tell the world about the extraordinary work of these promising social entrepreneurs.

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

Last week, the New York Times ran an amazing story on 2007 Echoing Green Fellow Chris Myers Asch, founder of the Public Service Academy. It seems that not only the mainstream media, but the Washington establishment are beginning to follow Chris’s lead: as of this writing, the legislation to create the Public Service Academy has 23 Senate sponsors and 123 House sponsors.

The Los Angeles Times recently highlighted the important work of 2007 Echoing Green Fellows Melvin Yee and Matthew Sirolly, founders of the Wage Justice Center. The Center—based in Los Angeles, California—fights to turn court victories for workers into real money. Even when workers won legal claims with the state for unpaid wages, some unscrupulous employers find creative ways to avoid payment.

We are extremely proud of 2008 Echoing Green Fellow Josh Sommer for his work to develop effective treatments for Chordoma.  

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An extraordinary filmmaker named Negin Farsad won the Every Woman's Filmmaker Competition for her film “Hot Bread Kitchen”. The film demonstrates the passion and verve that Jessamyn Waldman, a 2008 Echoing Green Fellow, brings to her social enterprise. It’s a delightful and inspiring nugget.

The film now stands a chance to be named a Lifetime Movie Network fan favorite.

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Rose Mapendo, a genocide survivor and co-founder of the refugee protection organization Mapendo International, has been acknowledged by actress and human rights advocate Susan Sarandon as a “CNN Hero”. Sarandon was deeply inspired, as I am, by Mapendo’s courage and strength in surviving sixteen months in a Congolese death camp before launching Mapendo International, with 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Sasha Chanoff.