Danny Greene together with his colleagues, members of team GifTED, won first place and were awarded an amount of $10,000 as well as a week-long internship at the TED headquarters in New York. The competition, TED Case Challenge, was intended to encourage young people to connect business and philanthropy.
Through research and prior knowledge, the group found that they would need to blend social incentives and daily routines to encourage people to donate more to charity organizations to create an effective business plan. One percent of the purchase will be automatically donated to a charity of the consumer’s choice.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
When Hannah Davis  traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.