10 Things I Learned At Skoll World Forum 2013Ashoka UK Director Mark Cheng (@chelcap) shares 10 things he learned at this year's Skoll World Forum. The 10th annual Skoll World Forum, which brought together several hundred of the world's leading social entrepreneurs to Oxford, wrapped up last ... Forbes.com, 1 month ago |
NGO push to increase Dehing-Patkai areaJorhat, April 16: An NGO, associated with conservation of wildlife, will campaign to increase the area under Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary in Upper Assam. In wake of the poaching of a wild elephant in the reserve forest area recently, Natures ... Calcutta Telegraph, 1 month ago
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Seeding South-South Change at EARTH UniversityAshoka's Director of Global Venture and Fellowship, Claire F Issa Secaira, 20, stands in front of waist-high stilted beds of onion sprouts and celery shrubs. Issa is using rice husks, coconut fibers and charcoal as a bed for her garden, adding ... Forbes.com, 1 month ago
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Steps to develop Bhairabkunda as tourist hubUDALGURI, May 9 - A high level delegation of Assam Environmental NGO Forum visited JFMC (Joint Forest Management Committee), Sapangaon near Indo-Bhutan border at Bhairabkunda on May 2 to study and suggest its up gradation to an eco-tourism hot-spot. The ... The Assam Tribune, 1 week ago
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ProfNet Roundup: 2013 Commencement Speakers/PRNewswire/ -- With the 2013 commencement season upon us, following is a list of speakers who will be addressing graduates at universities and colleges that are part of the ProfNet network.If you are in need of experts, you can also submit a query ... TickerTech.com, 1 week ago
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Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The InsideHow three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. 0 Editor's Note Well be profiling the four winners of Ashoka's League Of ... Fast Company, 2 weeks ago
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The Mainstreaming of Social Entrepreneurship [and Disruption]: The Good, Bad & UglyBy Like many things in life, disruption comes in many forms: the good, bad and, not to put too fine a point on it, ugly. This year's Skoll World Forum in Oxford, the pre-eminent global gathering of social entrepreneurs and those who help scale ... CSR Wire, 2 weeks ago
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Suyatno Hadiatmojo: Peace through empowermentA- A A+ (JP/Simon Sudarman)Efforts to create a community living in peace, mutual respect and harmony through economic empowerment have been the pursuit of Suyatno Hadiatmodjo, commonly called Romo (Father) Yatno, a Catholic priest from Kulonprogo, ... Jakarta Post, 2 weeks ago
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Social Innovation Builds Its Dream Home In New York CityThe Center For Social Innovation is opening its first U.S. location in New York, a communal space designed to spark interaction and collaboration between social entrepreneurs. 5 1 Faced with the dilemma of location, size, or quality, Centre for ... Fast Company, 2 weeks ago
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Telling talesMany years ago in a place far away there lived a barren, solitary mountain. The mountain was terribly lonely. He watched the sun rise; seasons go by, the clouds drift past him, the rain fall on him all alone. One day while he watched a flock of ... The Hindu, 3 weeks ago
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