I’m curious what people think about the term, “Bottom of the Pyramid.”

Been spending time getting to know the approach of the folks at Onthecommons.org. They are similar to our B-Lab buddies, Jay and Bart, and to their fellow traveller Heerad Sabetti  in in the part of problem they are tackling. All three efforts are working to creating a space where rapacious corporations are countered by a […]

This email exchange with John Katovich, who received an email link to a map I made of him and his affiliations after we got in an email exchange about his local exchange project, illustrates how xigi is growing and may also help people understand how to edit, correct their records in the database that underlies […]

For those of us involved throughout the late nineties and into the new millineum on bringing social enterprise “sources” and “uses” of capital together, one of the more interesting set of learnings may well of come from Sea Change. It was envisioned by its founders and funders as a clearinghouse between social entrepreneurs and funders […]

Peter Barnes, founder of Working Assets and a board member at the Tomales Bay Institute’s On The Commons project has written a pretty interesting new book called Capitalism 3.0 which is available for free download or purchase in book form.

Here is an excerpt: If capitalism as we know it is deeply flawed, and government is no […]

A new urban green real estate fund from Revival Fund Management exemplifies a budding trend toward private funds capitalized by accredited investors” according to a recent report from SocialFunds.com. “Boulder-based Revival Fund Management is ramping up to launch a $150 million urban green real estate fund for accredited investors (namely high net worth individuals or […]

Annual fair trade sales have reached 660 million Euros in Europe; it’s a number which has more than doubled 2001’s statistics. It’s being seen as a real alternative way to buy consumer goods.

Stocks have trading ranges; the bands within which they are bought and sold over a period of time. Looked at from an index point of view, fairtrade has stayed within its trading range of searches on google over the last two years, while social enterprise and microfinance have grown a lot. The single exception was […]

Leading the way on searching on social enterprise, according to Googletrends are people in Cambridge MA, followed by nine places in the UK. I’ve got both a Yahoo and Googlenews clipping service on the terms, and I can verify that social enterprise makes the news in the UK about nine to one over U.S. based […]

Googletrends says the highest percentage of online searches on the word microfinance, by a long shot, comes from Kampala, Uganda. African cities account for nine of the top 10 search locations on microfinance, with Geneva, Switzerland, coming in at the final spot.

Cotonou, Benin Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Bamako, Mali Nairobi, Kenya Adis Abeba, […]