Lending Club is an online lending community where people can borrow and lend money, bypass the banks, and get better rates. By working together, members can borrow money more easily and at a better ra

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Through a national network of outreach workers, The Homeless Nation Project is dedicated to providing the tools for homeless Canadians to share their stories, unique philosophies and points of view wi

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research projects on the convergence between multimedia and technology; widely popularized in the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a series of practical

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The rich cultural community of the Lower 9th Ward was devastated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. As a catalyst for positive change, the Pink Project represents opportunities hidden within this trage

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Education represents a powerful tool for generating jobs, improving incomes, and expanding the opportunities available to young people in developing countries. Teach a man to fish is creating an inter

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Project Locus, a nonprofit corporation, was founded in the fall of 2000 by three graduates of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Out of common goals, and mutual architec

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The One Laptop per Child initiative wants to develop and distribute $100 laptops to poor children around the world. Despite eager observers and exciting breakthroughs technologically, it has found the

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Social innovation on KaosPilots wiki

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KPNL Team 1 on the road looking for social innovation

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Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before t

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In recent years business has emerged an important motor of social change. A small number of innovative and entrepreneurial firms are repositioning Denmark as the Nation of Social Innovation.

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supports, inspires, and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design solutions to global communities in need. We champion industrial design as a tool to address social issues, a vehicle for glo

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The Hippo Roller is a simple rolling barrel device that allows the millions whose livelihoods depend on the daily fetching of water to more easily access and transport their daily water supply, and re

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Catalytic Communities uses technology to link grassroots community groups so they can learn from each other's successes, and support one another's work. We collect and posts how-to examples in our Co

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Instituto Meio is a private non-profit organization, that provides know-how and management skills, as well as business-orientated solutions that increase income and quality of life of less favored soc

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This project focuses on creating huge painting together with the inhabitants of the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Aiming to improve both the sense of pride inside the favelas as their image to the outside

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The British Council today operates in 109 countries and regions, and China is its largest operation.

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Freedom Toasters are conveniently located, self-contained, computer-based, 'Bring 'n Burn' facilities. Like vending machines, Freedom Toasters are preloaded to dispense free digital products, includin

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The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship works with professors and researchers, practitioners, and students to develop social entrepreneurship as a vocation and carry its principles into oth

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raises consciousness of self-interest to institutionalize sustainability in the financial world

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If you only concentrate on technology research then you invariably get technology innovation, but if you also research the social and the cultural, then you get social innovation. Technology and socia

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Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors, career interests, and professional backgrounds who commit two years to teach i

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article on strategic storytelling and social innovation

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Everyone with a good idea wants it to have an impact, but what turns promising social innovations into household names? What made microcredit, distance learning and street papers succeed while other g

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The Young Foundation and NESTA today launched 'In and Out of Sync' a report that highlights the weaknesses that inhibit social impact of ideas and what more needs to be done to increase the impact of

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More Associates is an interdisciplinary sustainable design practice.

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In their paper, Roodman and Qureshi argued that there isn't yet definitive evidence that microfinance actually lifts people out of poverty.

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Innovative philanthropy was the hallmark of last month’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York. One particularly inventive partnership centered around an investment fund to finance the expansion of ey

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A workshop on art practice for social transformation directed to the young artists of the Alexandria Biennale.

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