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 [...]
I suppose I throw around the phrase “social entrepreneur” an awful lot without actually explaining what it means. The Skoll Foundation is better at defining things than I am, and they recently made a neat little video profiling a few social entrepreneurs and summarizing the field as a whole. Plus its only 9 minutes, which is [...]
