A new fair trade clothing company founded by former Lands End employees called Fair Indigo got a really nice, pretty comprehensively contexted article in the Chicago Tribune that got picked up by other papers around the country. Unlike the typical fair trade feature, it went into some depth about the growing demand by socially conscious consumers […]

Got an invite to a dinner next week with Mark Albion founder of Net Impact the MBA group focused on looking at ways business can be a force for good. Looks like a pretty amazing guy.

We’re going to be meeting with Merrian Fuller, who’s written some good articles for the Nation magazine and ran the Philadelphia’s Sustainable Business Network, which is part of the BALLE network of local living economies. She’s now a student at Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, and is taking a class in microfinance from Good […]

Jus cut and pasted the article below from the web:

Bono has gone to mainstream retail brands to help raise money for his causes, recognizing that most people’s attention is on fashion and the mall, and not on world issues… Go to the heart of the beast?

“Oprah and Bono to launch new red iPod”From www.theage.com.au http://www.theage.com.au/news/digital-music/oprah-and-bono-to-launch-new-red-ipod/2006/10/13/1160246308975.html

“Talk […]

Somehow, I missed the annual awards for technology being used to help mankind this year; they were announced when I was out of the country a couple of weeks ago. The competition is rigorous, but entrepreneurs I know who have won say it provides some further, third party validation when they are trying to raise […]

The Ultimatum Game is one of those games that is loved by both economists and game theorist, not only because it can be played in any culture and with any two people, but also because the outcomes of the game are not what either group predicted.

The Salvation Army has asked all of it’s members to consider switching their current brands of tea and coffee to Fair Trade brands in order to support tea growers in the developing world. In a leaflet that went out to all members this week The Salvation Army sketched a biblical justification for their new fair […]

You are not smart enough to be pessimistic, according to Peter Goldmark. This from Keely Stevenson.

“Why would this former head of Rockefeller Foundation and International Herald Tribune insult your intelligence like this?

To make the point that major shifts in societal organization have occurred in ways that no one had predicted. No one was […]

For the past three months we have been researching our potential pipeline of investments at Good Capital. The result of that research and of our fund development is narrowing the definition of the fund profile, the specific characteristics we are looking for in a potential investment. That process has been influenced by what we […]

Marie So and the Ventures in Development team has won another business plan competition. They just took down $15,000 from Business in Development’s Challenge, the world’s first international business plan competition for poverty reduction and profit.

VID was already a winner of Harvard Business School’s social enterprise competition for an earlier version of their plan […]