Everyone wants to better the world, but the mark of a true social entrepreneur is action. By Susan Cooney (Founder & CEO, Givelocity) Social entrepreneurs employ strategies and tactics used for starting a commercial business – raising capital, acquiring customers,...
Samasource founder Leila Janah has helped thousands of young people in emerging nations earning a fair wage to perform computer work. By Christina Farr (Reporter, VentureBeat) In rural Northern Uganda, a group of workers assemble each day in a shipping container,...
The co-host of this week’s Founder Friday Mexico City explains how a regular young woman ended up helping supply thousands of rural communities with electricity. By Mariana Astrid Gonzalez Pacheco (Co-founder & CEO, ILUMEXICO) What I love about my story as...
In honor of the U.N. International Day of the Girl, we wanted to share a video from The Girl Effect that made us get misty-eyed. Get inspired and PASS IT ON! By Jessica Schimm (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) Behold! Today is the U.N. International Day of the Girl! How...
Or why those with big ambitions should be proud of modest beginnings (including Thiel Fellows). By Shaherose Charania (Co-founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Everything that goes up must come down and that, apparently, includes Peter Thiels’ 20 Under 20 program. Three...