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Sites I like: spot.us funds citizen journalism

One of the most exciting sites I’ve come across recently is spot.us, a crowdfunding platform for independent, citizen journalism. Users can submit story tips, and journalists pitch their story ideas...

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Social Impact Bonds: a revolution in government funding

In his recently proposed budget, President Obama has asked for up to $100 million to implement programs funded by Social Impact Bonds (SIBs). These bonds are the cornerstones of a new way to pay for...

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New ways of thinking: From critique to optimism (but still in beta)

I don’t know if there’s something inherent to the discipline of anthropology that moves us toward critique: the tendency to pick-apart any kind of human effort to do anything in the world....

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Sites I like: OpenIDEO.com expands the community of problem-solvers

The theory behind OpenIDEO.com is that ideas emerge through a collaborative process, and that this process is most effective when it is inclusive and open to non-experts. OpenIDEO.com is an online...

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Starting from scratch: Rubina Design’s founder on building a social enterprise

Notes: I’ll be profiling this organization as it moves through the stages of product development, marketing, and expansion, over the next few months. Bringing an idea to life is a little like launching...

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Sites I like: Simpl puts ideas on the (crowdsourced) market

Fresh on the crowdsourced funding scene is Simpl, a site that aims to help ideas grow by bringing them into contact with people who have access to and want to share resources.  But what’s unique about...

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Using the law to do good: Kyle Westaway on Benefit Corporations and...

Business law assumes profit as a company’s singular motivation, making it hard, and sometimes illegal, for social enterprises to keep a social mission at the core of their operations. Kyle Westaway has...

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