Give yourself a break from the hectic preparations for Christmas and have a look at this TED talk! Drawing on her experience from banking, microfinance and traditional philanthropy, Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the The Acumen Fund, finances entrepreneurs and enterprises that can bring

Established in July 2009, Gundara is a small fair trade company that designs leather items handmade in Kabul, in an attempt to contribute to the process of reconstruction that

Skoll Foundations Social Edge is a hot tip for those interested in reading about social entrepreneurship. This website features a row of social entrepreneurs writing about their work from all over the world and in numerous different fields. You can follow blogs such as Africa’s Moment by Magogodi Makhene who is the founder of Zenzele [...]

Together with Ashoka: Innovators for the public, Rooy Media has created a DVD series in sixteen parts called ”The Social Entrepreneurship Series”. The series focus on the need for social change to create a better world, battling lack of education, poor health care, lack of drinking water and violations of civil rights as well as [...]

Photographer: Forest Woodward Surfer entrepreneur Dave Aabo is building eco-tourism and supporting community programs in Peru by connecting surf tourism with the local community. After years of living and surfing in Northern Peru, he felt that surf travel should benefit the people and the communities where it happens

A new innovation by Indian social enterprise VNL is giving rural India access to mobile technology – quickly, sustainably and at low cost. Comparing it to microfinancing, they call this new approach microtelecom.

Echoing Green are hardly newcomers on the social business scene. Founded more than twenty years ago, their mission is to fund and support social entrepreneurs with some of the world’s boldest ideas for social change. Echoing Green believe that social entrepreneurs are the catalysts for societal change,

When discussing Social Business, it is hard to avoid mentioning NobelPrize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Although new Social Business networks and projects constantly appear without involvement from the Grameen Bank founder, his idea of lending microcredits to the penniless has certainly laid the foundation for this new way of business. FT.com recently published an interesting article [...]