Archive for July, 2009

Life as a social venture start-up like CommuniTeach can be tricky, particularly when you’re contemplating your need for capital while in a non-profit/L3C/for-profit identity crisis. On the non-profit side, traditional grants and foundations don’t exactly jive with your social entrepreneurship sensibilities and desire for unique models of revenue generation and financial sustainability. But the idea of [...]

Ever wanted to learn how to mix a killer cocktail?
This Saturday, July 18, at 9:00pm, is your chance, at the first ever Pittsburgh CommuniTeach event! It will be a Group LearnIt on how to mix alcoholic beverages, with instruction from a real live retired bartender, Aarthi!
You can also learn some rock piano from Ben Paul. [...]

Several people on CommuniTeach have expressed an interest in learning how to travel cheaply. Traveling on the cheap happens to be one of my specialties, and I’m happy to share a few of my tricks.
1. Before you go anywhere, join that city’s Couchsurfing network. Couchsurfing is an incredible network of travelers all around the world [...]

Know how to cook french toast? Interested in mastering the glory that is quiche? Just want to have a great time and perhaps a mimosa on a Sunday afternoon?
Well, you’re in luck. This weekend, CommuniTeach will be having our first Group LearnIt for Cooking Breakfast Foods! The Cooking Breakfast Foods LearnIt will be this Sunday, July 12th, [...]

I just come across this great website that shares all major presentations and speeches at MIT with the masses. According to the site, “These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere”.  Topics range from creativity to [...]

NPR had an interesting article yesterday about The Extraordinaries, a new social entrepreneurship start-up that enables people to micro-volunteer through their mobile phones. I go back and forth about this concept, in part because it collides with many pre-concieved notions about my favorite types of social ventures.
1. I think that volunteering should be about building [...]


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