November 2011
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StartSomeGood News
Last week we launched one new campaign:
RiAus sees an opportunity for Australians to improve their science and math skills and is setting out to be the catalyst for this change. RiAus believes that increased scientific awareness will create a skilled workforce and a knowledgeable community of Australians that can connect with the rest of the world. This new campaign on StartSomeGood will...
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Be the Media With Dane101
As we have seen with the recent Occupy protests, the proposed deficit reduction and the GOP debates for the Republican candidate nomination, citizens are regaining their lost interest in politics. Young people who are entering the workforce or facing unemployment for the first time want to know their state politics. No longer are they content hearing from a national...
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Last week we launched three new campaigns:
The Crib supports single parents in critical situations such as low income, lack of education, lack of parenting knowledge or homelessness. It runs a Case Management and Intervention program that offers critical services and also helps clients take advantage of existing local community services they may not have been aware of. The...
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This Week in Social Entrepreneurship
In our “This Week in Social Entrepreneurship” series, each Friday we will feature the top stories in Social Entrepreneurship for the week that we find to be noteworthy, novel, and thought-provoking. What are your favorite stories this week in Social Entrepreneurship? Let’s start a discussion!
Women social entrepreneurs—this is your chance! The Pipeline Fellowship, which encourages...
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Interview with Simon Mainwaring, Author of We...
The SocEnt book club had the amazing opportunity to talk to Simon Mainwaring last week. Simon’s book, We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World, was introduced and reviewed on our blog. Simon shared some thought provoking ideas about the future of capitalism with our listeners, and a transcript of the interview is provided below. First, however, we want to...
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Last week we launched one new campaign:
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) was formed to take on factory fishing operations and support community fisherman. Through advocacy, education and market transformation, NAMA is empowering fisherman, informing the public about the ills of factory farms and using market-based approaches to change the way people buy their fish. One of the ways...
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Legal Structures for Social Good: Thursday...
Though most people know StartSomeGood best for our focus on helping social good ventures raise both the financial capital necessary to transform their ideas into action and impact, and the relational capital to rally their supporters behind their vision, we also promote a third crucial pillar: intellectual capital. To this end, we host webinars aimed at arming social entrepreneurs with the...
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This Week in Social Entrepreneurship
In our “This Week in Social Entrepreneurship” series, each Friday we will feature the top stories in Social Entrepreneurship for the week that we find to be noteworthy, novel, and thought-provoking. What are your favorite stories this week in Social Entrepreneurship? Let’s start a discussion!
Looking for some great SocEnt events to attend? On Tuesday, November 15 in Manhattan, the Social...
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Last week we launched one new campaign:
Dane101 is a grassroots media outlet for Wisconsin that collaborates with bloggers, journalists, and regular citizens to make sure stories that tend to be overlooked get the coverage they deserve. Dane101 seeks to establish a database of talented freelance reporters it can turn to for in-depth coverage of news stories. Dane101’s Be the Media...
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This Week in Social Entrepreneurship
In our “This Week in Social Entrepreneurship” series, each Friday we will feature the top stories in Social Entrepreneurship for the week that we find to be noteworthy, novel, and thought-provoking. What are your favorite stories this week in Social Entrepreneurship? Let’s start a discussion!
The Transformative Action Institute promotes university curriculums that teach key skills that make...
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Interview with Trek to Teach's Brad Hurvitz
Trek to Teach is expanding the education system in Nepal. It recruits foreign teachers to work at a local school in Nepal’s Himalayas. Teachers also have the opportunity to live with a Nepali host family and immerse themselves in the country’s culture. The goals of this organization include inspiring students and improving educational quality through teachers, infrastructure, and supplies. A...
Meet Simon Mainwaring, Author of We First
StartSomeGood’s SocEnt Book Club is pleased to host Simon Mainwaring, author of We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World on our monthly book club conference call. Our call will be held next Tuesday, November 8th at 5pm EST/ 2pm PST.
Join the call to hear Mainwaring talk about the future of capitalism and our society and expand upon the ideas in We First. You...
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SocEnt Book Club: The New Relationship Marketing
We are excited to announce the November installment of the SocEnt Book Club, The New Relationship Marketing: How to Build a Large, Loyal, Profitable Network Using the Social Web by Mari Smith. The New Relationship Marketing is a guide to creating and maintaining relationships using social media.
As Smith asserts in her book, business is more social now than at any time in history. That makes it...
