50/50 Make or Break
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, October 31st 2011. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Activism, Aid, Grassroots, Social innovation, Well-being
Today it is not so easy to find an innovative good way to organize a fundraising campaign, 50/50 Make or Break project has done it.
The starting point is a question about how to support more than one idea, and the answer is a collaborative fundraising experiment, a collection of extraordinary ...
When the book saves lives: End Malaria
Published By Isabella Mara On Saturday, September 10th 2011. Under Interactions Tags: Aid, Books, Community development, Well-being
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What if a book didn’t just talk about saving the world – but actually did it?
End Malaria: purchasing this benevolent tome literally enables you to rescue people from a tragic fate.
The book features essays, tips and insights on great work by 62 writers, visionaries and thinkers including Michael Bungay Stanier, Sir ...
Indego Africa: entrepreneurship and independence
Published By Isabella Mara On Friday, July 29th 2011. Under Interactions, Products Tags: Community development, Empowerment, Handmade, Local, Sustainable production, Well-being
INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty.
The business model is simple yet ground-breaking: partnership with cooperatives of women ...
IOU PROJECT: Fun, Profit and Social Good.
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, June 27th 2011. Under Fashion, Interactions, Services Tags: Creativity, Empowerment, Handmade, Identity, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable production
Internet is the way to get people to see their clothes and listen to their messages. The recently launched web site IOU project is not the latest clothes brand but it is a bridge between Indian artisans and consumers.
The head of the project is Kavita Parmar. She is "a fashion designer ...
The Girl Store
Published By Isabella Mara On Wednesday, June 22nd 2011. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Aid, Empowerment, Social inclusion
In many parts of India, especially in rural areas, the tradition of stubborn preference for the male child is still dominant. Little girls are considered the worst gift from destiny. They grow up in a different system, they stop going to school very early to work at home. They are often sold ...
Vote the Greenest Ideas
Published By Fatina Saikaly On Saturday, March 26th 2011. Under Interactions Tags: Environment, Grassroots, Networking, Participation
One dat is left to vote for the greenest ideas. Visit thegreenawards.com to vote your favorites. There are four categories: Green Civic Leader, Green Entrepreneur, Green Local Organizer, and Green Parent. Remember you can vote once per category, per day until March 27. HURRY UP... Vote to make a big ...
17 museums and the giant of Mountain View
Published By Isabella Mara On Friday, February 11th 2011. Under Art, Interactions Tags: Community development, Creativity, Innovation, Social inclusion
Recently the Mountain View giant launched, is not a surprise after all, the Google Art Project. It works on the same principle of street viewing, but you are walking in the galleries of different museums rather than in the streets of a city. The platform is innovative, but still not ...
YES, we can
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, January 24th 2011. Under Art, Interactions Tags: Community development, Innovation, Participation, Sustainable behaviour
On November 13, the Louvre Museum launched a fundraising campaign open to everybody: one million Euros was the missing sum to complete the budget needed to purchase “The Three Graces” (1531) by the German artist Lucas Cranach. The deadline was January 31st 2011, and only three quarters of the funds ...
KICKSTARTER, a new way to fund and follow creativity.
Published By Fatina Saikaly On Tuesday, November 30th 2010. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Creativity, Grassroots, Networking, Participation, Sharing, Social innovation
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Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. It was selected by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2010. On kickstarter, anyone can donate to a project from creative fields such as art, design, film, food, music, publishing, and technology. Every project has ...






















