In the most recent update of xigi we introduced a network mapping application to enable visualization of the relationships between entities and people in the xigi market database. As xigi’s chief technologist, I am continually looking for new ways to extract value from the information that the xigi community is building, and to find […]

Hello, all. I moderate the npEnterprise Forum (www.npEnterprise.net), the global 4000+ subscriber listserv with an exclusive focus on earned income-social enterprise strategies, primarily by nonprofits but also some mission-oriented forprofits. npE has been designated by the Social Enterprise Alliance as its “official” listserv. Last week, npE received a question that we thought […]

Think of the last story you heard about a company that chose to do something for no other reason than it was simply the right thing to do… Project (RED)’s attempt to put a dent in the AIDS epidemic in Africa, Wal-Mart’s delivery of much-needed supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina, or Branson’s commitment of […]

Michael Pearce has built one of the more interesting maps of his connections this week here.

Since I am a principal at Goodcap and going to be a judge at the Global Social Venture Competition at HAAS (all on his map) we have more than a few connections as you can see by clicking on his […]

Stanford Social Innovation review just published “Six Tips for Successful Non-profit/Business Partnerships” on their website, see here. Beyond content, what is of interest is the very fact that they are publishing this, evidence of enough going on in the “zeitgeist” to prompt the article.

(Maybe Bush got ideas for the right words to say in his speech […]

Well, when the President of the US uses the term Social Entrepreneur (to describe the founder of Baby Einstein) in the State of the Union address…I guess that tells us it has come officially into the mainstream. Wow! Here’s the quote:

“After her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of […]

Tides Foundation Canada just released that the Government of Canada has committed $30 million to protect and ensure a healthy future for British Columbia’s North and Central coast, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest. This is a really interesting deal, and Tides Canada is truly a great institution working in the space, innovating and […]

Paul Herman flags more from the paper that brought us the groundbreaking Gates Foundation story on the underlying trend of new philanthropy. Here’s his note: January 2007 appears to be unleasing tremendous media coverage on How To Change the World and to do so profitably — this piece by a New America Foundation Fellow on […]

A poll Lucy Bernholz asked me to take about how closely foundations should be considering linking their missions with way they invest their corpus (where they keep 95 percent of their money) is yet another fallout of the great LA Times story on how the Gates Foundation invests their corpus. The disconnect, ruthless focus on […]

Jim Fruchterman, MacArthur Fellow and Benetech CEO is going to Davos for his fifth session. He’s planning to blog the two parts of his annual Swiss adventure: “It’s that time of year when social entrepreneurs get to hang out and carouse with the world’s leaders. I’m en route to Switzerland for two conferences (or, a […]