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America’s 50 Heroes Get Clicked: Everyday Heroes, Written By: Esha Chhabra, Posted By: Dowser.org

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This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. Author Katrina Fried and the book’s photographer, Paul Mobley, have been busy…Continue

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YES! Magazine asks, What Would Nature Do?, Written By: Esha Chhabra, Posted By: Dowser.org

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This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. In the latest …Continue

Tags: environment, innovation, design, nature

mHealth Still Needs a Residence, Even in Rural India, Written By: Ben Thurman, Posted By: Dowser.org

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This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE.by Ben ThurmanCareering down the serpentine road from Araku to Visakhapatnam, in…Continue

Tags: healthcare, mhealth, rural, doctors, health

To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules, Written By: Alan Hirzel,Posted By: Dowser.org

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This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. This post originally appeared in the …Continue

Tags: growth, scale, entrepreneurship, social, business

 

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America’s 50 Heroes Get Clicked: Everyday Heroes, Written By: Esha Chhabra, Posted By: Dowser.org

This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. Author Katrina Fried and the book’s photographer, Paul Mobley, have been busy promoting Everyday Heroes, their new book which catalogs the work of 50 social entrepreneurs in the United States.Katrina Fried has previously written American Farmer, and as Senior Editor and Associate…See More
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This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. This post originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review.This is a guest post by Alan Hirzel, a trustee of The Social…See More
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World Wildlife Fund Supports Startups in the Forest, Written By: Lindsay Hebert, Posted By: Dowser.org

This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE.Runa works with 2,000 indigenous farmers of Kichwa nationality (as pictured above) in the Ecuadorian Amazon to produce guayusa tea (Photo courtesy of subject).By Lindsay HebertIn December, the World Wildlife Fund Switzerland teamed with Ennovent, a supporter of…See More
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India’s Feat in Public Health: Polio, Written By: Esha Chhabra, Posted By: Dowser.org

This article was originally published on Dowser.org. Read it HERE. This Sunday, January 13, was the anniversary of India’s major polio milestone – marking two years without reporting a single case of polio.  We talk with Dr. Naveen Thacker, a pediatrician and polio expert, who has been part of the country’s leadership that’s been actively pushing for a polio-free India.There has been significant press recently on the polio effort, ie. …See More
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Clean Energy: Is Crowdfunding the Solution?

Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:35pm 1 Comment

by David Bornstein

This originally appeared in the New York Times as a Fixes column.

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If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global…

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Social Impact Session with Sonal Shah

Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:18pm 1 Comment

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UaGVDp9bDJo

Brian Weinberg of Blended Profit speaks with Sonal Shah, a Tides Fellow and former Director of the Office of Social Innovation at the White House.…

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