With the grants from Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and MAC Foundation, the Luther College can help advance the work of the new Luther Center for Sustainable Communities and other sustainability...more
Maggie Coggan, a Journalist at Pro Bono News covering the social sector, shares a NESTA report's findings that reveal European social entrepreneurs are struggling to scale their startups due to a...more
Urban gardening initiatives throughout the city, such as the Garden Resource Program Collaborative, are transforming these lots into productive gardens to feed residents, foster a sense of community...more
It has recently been reported that a group of 20 Spencer Borden Elementary School students has gathered together to form an after-school Philanthropy Club.
The group is headed by school counselor...more
News headlines scream "bad young people" on a daily basis. Media of all sorts trade on trashing "the 1%." While some validity there of course, it is thrilling to read about just the opposite. The...more
MIT Solve, a global initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a marketplace for social impact that helps tech entrepreneurs develop solutions to address the world's biggest...more
Samuel Mpamugo, who writes for the The Star (Kenya), emphasises emotional intelligence as the key factor in the innovation process.
Mpamugo reasons that innovation involves people and their...more
The Sunshine Foundation has recently granted two wishes in line with their mission to make chronically ill, disabled, and abused children\'s wishes come true.
Baily Bessette, 15 and Sa\'niya...more
Those who want to do business in Africa need to spend time there to fully understand what is needed and how best it will work there. Western entrepreneurs can not develop a product in their own...more
The New York Life Foundation has provided a two-year funding to Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for youths ages 7 to 17.
The grant values at $1 million aside from the previous grants the...more
Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network.