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Born and raised in Soweto, Magogodi Makhene helps create Africa’s missing
middle-class through business innovation. She recently co-founded Zenzele Circle, an angel investment network linking sub-Sahara African start-ups with seed and growth capital and strategic relationships. She received the Reynolds Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship at NYU and is now co-Chair of the Africa Social Enterprise Forum. [...]
Princeton in Africa Fellow Alyson Zureick blogs on her year in Sierra Leone and the numerous grassroots initiatives for social change.
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Lara Galinsky is the Vice President of Strategy and Communications at Echoing Green, a global social venture fund that has been identifying and investing in social entrepreneurs for twenty years. Lara co-authored Be Bold, a handbook for emerging nonprofit leaders, with Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green. Here, she shares the four elements of boldness [...]
After years of working with aid projects around the world, Tori Hogan came to the unfortunate realization that the vast majority weren’t drastically improving lives. She seeks answers in Beyond Good Intentions.
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"They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face." Thus writes Jacqueline Novogratz in her new book, "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor." The founder and CEO of Acumen Fund went to Africa in her twenties to try [...]
Capital Ideas is a six month series providing a "Finance 101 for Social Entrepreneurs" through a combined offering of basic finance knowledge, practical advice and case studies. Capital Ideas is covering topics such as financing alternatives (debt, equity and grants), determining your financing strategy, identifying potential sources of capital, the elements of a successful pitch [...]
Dave Johnson is blogging live from the Carter Center Conference on Faith and Freedom: Protecting Human Rights as Common Cause.
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Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Rodney Schwartz had “proper jobs” with investment banks PaineWebber, Lehman and Paribas. Seeing the error of his ways, he has for the last ten years advised, studied, written about and built several leading UK social businesses and enterprises. With the help of his ClearlySo colleagues, he praises heroes, bursts [...]
Dave Johnson, founder and principal author of Seeing The Forest, blogs from the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
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Madhu Anand left her comfortable job as a Business Operations Manager in Cisco Systems’ California headquarters and began a six-month, full- time corporate service fellowship supporting microfinance in Kyrgyzstan. She tells her story to Jennifer Anastasoff, CEO of BuildingBlocks International. Read also Oren Penn’s story below –he left PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington to start a corporate [...]
Serial social entrepreneur Anand Shah is CEO of Sarvajal, a social enterprise increasing access to pure drinking water through entrepreneurship. He graduated from Harvard College before launching Indicorps in Ahmedabad. He is also CEO of the Piramal Foundation, where he helps India’s youth actively participate in national progress. And he is helping setup Vedanta University in [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan, Ph.D. (also known as Dr. O) helps you find the right tools to fund your social venture.
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Victor d’Allant, Jason Clark and Jill Finlayson describe what it takes to live on The Edge. They also share news from the Social Edge community and highlight important ideas and opportunities from the field of social entrepreneurship.
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Seventeen students from Northwestern University are spending the summer in Uganda to implement projects in microfinance and youth leadership. Liz, Nikolai and Ann share their adventures.
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Effective Solutions to End Extreme Poverty can be Found among the Unsung Grassroots Leaders in the World’s Poorest Countries
Over the last 50 years, countries around the world have tried to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty. Collaborative efforts of nations have also tried to resolve the associated problems, including the lack of [...]
