Welcome to Benetech's New Site! (and...)

We've just launched Benetech's new website . This is my Welcome post that originally appeared on the new Benetech Blog . On behalf o...

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Martín Burt is one of the greatest social entrepreneurs I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for many years. So I was recently taken by surprise...

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Funding Innovation for Skoll Social Entrepreneurs

I was recently at the Skoll World Forum, probably the best conference in the world for meeting with top social entrepreneurs. As a longtime ...

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Engineers Without Borders Canada

I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Withou...

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Daproim and Steve Muthee, its founder

As I noted in my first blog on my African trip, I was delighted with the entrepreneurial culture in Nairobi, Kenya. A social entrepreneur w...

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Kipp and Philip of the Social Development Network in east Africa

I've just ended an exciting three week long Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. There are so many exciting people and organizatio...

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Caltech and Sustainability

When I can find the time, I jump at the opportunity to visit universities. It stimulates the same pleasure center that brainstorming does fo...

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Benetech Truth #1: Social Change Through Technology

[Note: this is part one of seven posts on the Benetech Truths .] The world has big problems. We need fresh, original solutions that are bet...

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Skoll World Forum Social Entrepreneur's Song

One of the great memories I have of last week's Skoll World Forum is Willy Foote of Root Capital kicking off the Skoll Convening (the g...

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Benetech Truths

Benetech has spent a good part of this last year thinking about what's next for our mission and our team. A crucial part of that effor...

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Work on What Matters — Social Edge

I'm having a conversation over at Social Edge on What Matters . Feel free to join in the conversation and share your views on the topi...

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Travel Tips for Social Entrepreneurs

I'm just wrapping up a week of conversation on Social Edge, entitled Travel Tips for Social Entrepreneurs . I'm fascinated not only...

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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

One of the more interesting people I met at the Oxford Skoll meeting this year was Raja Moubarak, founder of Winquest . Raja is a seasoned ...

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Work on Stuff that Matters

I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters . Tim's poi...

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President's Update: the Benetech Report

My latest President's Update is up on the Benetech website. This update spotlights our new Benetech report celebrating twenty (!) year...

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Social Enterprise Summit Blogging Contest Winners Announced

Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on ...

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Market Failure in Global Health Technologies

New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology pro...

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The Davos Blur

The Davos scene is nonstop: it starts with breakfast meetings at 8 am and ends typically after midnight. You rush from session to session, ...

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First day in Davos

I’m joining many other social entrepreneurs on our journey to Davos, home of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. The journey it...

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Social Enterprise Alliance Summit

As I head off to the WEF Summit in Davos, I'm also excited about the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit coming up in San Francisco at th...

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