Playing off the infamous cause marketing campaign employed by Lance Armstrong’s “LIVESTRONG”, Ben Stiller has launched a campaign of his own raising money to support a school he recently visited in Haiti. From the STILLERSTRONG website: So what’s with the yellow headbands? Well, besides my homage to the great Lance Armstrong… I had this opportunity [...]

Following my post yesterday on Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a friend shared with me “The Girl Effect”. I’ll let the video speak for itself! The Girl Effect Website The Girl Effect Facebook Fan Page

Menstruation is a major issue when looking at girls and women in the developing world having equal access to education and jobs. The numbers presented in this video are direct and to the point: Each year girls and women miss 50 days of school or work because of menstruation — 5 years over the course of [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for November 23rd: TerraCycle // Outsmarting Waste – This is a very cool up-and-coming venture that is taking trash collected by members of their site and turning it into eco-friendly products for sale. They currently sell over 50 products available at retailers including Walmart, Target, Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco, and Whole [...]

As many of you know, ColaLife is one of my favorite up-and-coming nonprofits — leveraging Coca-Cola’s distribution networks to get medicines out to areas where nonprofits have been unable to reach. You can read one of my previous posts about them here. Anyways, I was excited to see this video of David Berman, author of [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for November 18th through November 19th: Financial and Economic Reports on Each African Country – Courtesy of Wharton Business School (UPenn), a collection of what looks to be final papers covering the financial and economic states of each and every African country. The Good and Bad of South Africa’s Fiscal Expansion [...]

Coca-Cola is a company that I closely follow — their growing focus on sustainability and their global reach and programs in emerging markets really fascinates me. Coca-Cola is sold in 206 countries, has created an amazing distribution network in Africa (giving way to new possibilities like ColaLife), and supports entrepreneurs around the world. More recently, [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for November 17th: The School for Social Entrepreneurs: Scaling social entrepreneurship (or why many molehills make a mountain) – Many people are talking about “scale” these days – as it pertains to their individual enterprises and social entrepreneurship on the whole. This article presents 5 key points to be considered before [...]