A 700-Member Time Bank in Central Vermont
A time bank where members exchange goods and services instead of money. Exchanges are not reciprocal, meaning that one hour spent baking, cleaning, doing plumbing work or driving someone to the airport, can be exchanged for an hour of service provided by any other member of the time bank.
Visualizing Financial Inclusion (and Shaping It)
This article was originally posted on NextBillion.org. By Scott Anderson. Want to see just how fast financial inclusion is spreading? Just map it. The Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, an arm of the G20 concerned with the expanse of financial inclusion for non-G20 nations, recently released a very illustrative map that [...]
As the developing world booms, old multinationals quake
In the next 15 years, the number of people in the consuming class will double and, for the first time ever, emerging markets will have more purchasing power than developed economies combined. Dylan Reid of GOOD has summed up this phenomenon and explained why smart entrepreneurs aren't eyeing the first [...]
Turkey’s Kurds hope for peace
One of Europe’s longest-running wars may be coming to an end, in large part due to a grassroots nonviolent intervention. Read full story at Peace News ->
From Assiut to Zacatecas, do-gooders swarm startup competitions
Social enterprise is popping up in startup competitions around the developed world, but tech-savvy social entrepreneurs from developing countries are scoring wins and turning heads as well. Techies will be excited to learn about Google’s recently launched Global Impact Challenge, which is sending $3 million to nonprofit tech startups in [...]
New ideas about social entrepreneurship: Yes, they still exist
Social enterprise is so new that many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t know where to begin. They can now find their way thanks to a new guide stocked with advice from the field. “Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation,” recently published by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, is [...]