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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/

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.