Here’s your Daily Brief for December 7th:
The Next Generation of Microfinance: Microfranchising (via Allyu and BeyondProfit) – One of the challenges for microfinance institutions is covering their overhead expenses. I’ve written about my friend Ben Lyon’s approach to integrating mobile platforms that deliver microfinance services at much lower cost …

Lance was quick to put out a response to Ben Stiller’s new foundation: STILLERSTRONG! Lance’s video involves the entire board of LIVESTRONG, which just so happened to be convening today! Check it out:

Don’t forget to take a look at both initiatives:

LIVESTRONG Website
STILLERSTRONG Website

I fell behind on posting Daily Briefs this last week – I was focusing most all of my attention on great Thanksgiving food and company, as well as working hard on completing my Echoing Green Fellowship Application! Here’s a compilation of some of the coolest articles and blog posts that …

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 …

Are you a student with a great idea for a nonprofit or social enterprise!? SparkSeed is searching for the top student social entrepreneurs across the country to help support their projects with the tools and resources they need to advance their projects. SparkSeed will select 10 ventures to receive six …

For all the students out there interested in social innovation and creative approaches to global development, there is no better opportunity to come together and collaborate than at the Global Engagement Summit at Northwestern University. I attended GES last March and really had the time of my life! It is …

I’m happy to announce that I was named a 2010 StartingBloc Fellow, and will be attending the Boston Institute (hosted by Tufts Fletcher School and Harvard Business School) in February.
StartingBloc is an awesome network of social innovators across multiple sectors, and I know I’m in great company! I look forward …

What a fast-paced and evolving world we live in!