Looking Forward to 2010 GRI Conference
John Elkington
October 10, 2009
Just in from Amsterdam, after several days with the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative – among other things sketching out a project which... More...
Guinness Fund offers €100,000 each to 25 Irish social enterprise projects
John Elkington
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland has announced that the Arthur Guinness Fund is now open for applications. The fund is seeking to find and support up to... More...
Social entrepreneurs to be paid by results in Conservative UK
John Elkington
Social enterprises will be paid for successfully delivering public services without central or local government intervention in the event of a Conservative government after the... More...
OUR NUMBER’S UP—AND IT’S 350
Kevin Teo
October 8, 2009
OUR NUMBER’S UP—AND IT’S 350 Bill McKibben is the man behind 350.org, the global campaign on climate change that has declared October 24 to be International... More...
Bunker Roy critiques the Millennium Development Goals
John Elkington
October 7, 2009
The Millennium Development Goals are misguided – and likely to be achieved only on paper – says Bunker Roy, founder of India’s Barefoot College and... More...
Volans Year – enrollment opens
Kevin Teo
October 6, 2009
Starting last Friday, we’ve been sending out emails to friends and networks to announce the opening of enrollment into the Volans Year program. Please feel... More...
Homo Volans, Taking Flight
Alejandro Litovsky
Volans has taken the work of the economists Kondratiev and Schumpeter as guide stars since we started – as flagged in The Phoenix Economy... More...
Social Entrepreneur Stumps Up $35 Million Return Flight Fare
John Elkington
October 3, 2009
It is a couple of years since an X-Prize Foundation team came to visit us at SustainAbility’s London offices, but I already knew... More...
Help Google Invest $10 Million
John Elkington
Google’s ‘Project 10 to the 100′ has identified social entrepreneurship as one of the top 16 ideas that will change the world. Now they are... More...
Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation Empowers Women
John Elkington
October 2, 2009
The New York Times Magazine recently featured a powerful article, ‘The Women’s Crusade’, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The article portrayed a sobering... More...
