Finance 2.0: The New Infrastructures
Alejandro Litovsky
January 22, 2009
The social networking tools of the Web 2.0 meet the banking crisis. Enter a new generation of Internet-based, peer-to-peer finance mechanisms that connect people who... More...
Cartier’s Women’s Initiative Awards
John Elkington
January 20, 2009
Don’t know whether anyone in the Volans network would be interested, or eligible, but it may be worth taking a look at this. Created... More...
‘The Power of Unreasonable People’ goes foreign
John Elkington
Foreign editions of The Power of Unreasonable People have begun to appear, with copies of the Italian and Japanese versions now displayed in our London... More...
Third Sector and Fifteen
John Elkington
January 15, 2009
Delightful dinner this evening at Admiralty House, London, hosted by the Office of the Third Sector – with excellent catering by Jamie Oliver’s restaurant... More...
Another Trailblazer – Institute of Green Professionals
John Elkington
January 11, 2009
IGP 2009 As the fields opened out by pioneering social and environmental entrepreneurs begin to mainstream, we will see a secondary wave of professionalisation. ... More...
Intelligent Optimists
John Elkington
My profile of Albina Ruiz Rios of Ciudad Saludable, Peru, appears in the January-February issue of Ode Magazine. ... More...
UK Minister with taste for SROI
John Elkington
Kevin Brennan, the UK Minister for the Third Sector, illustrates the trend for politicians to pay more attention to social enterprise. The UK is... More...
Making Decent Profits Decently: The Changing Culture of MBAs
Smita Sircar
January 8, 2009
In her final post for Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership, Pamela reflects about her underlying motivations for taking on the role of ... More...
Lien Centre announces i3 Challenge
Kevin Teo
January 7, 2009
The Lien Centre for Social Innovation is offering S$1 million for innovative ideas that can be implemented to create positive social impact. This is... More...
The Upside of a Downturn
Smita Sircar
January 1, 2009
In the two weeks since the launch of the Volans survey on ‘Social Entrepreneurship in a Downturn’, we had already received about 70 responses by... More...
