social entrepreneurship

Doing Something Right

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by Kristie Wang Transforming inmates into entrepreneurs in Texas — and saving millions of tax dollars Texas has been the center of a swirl of controversy lately in two very different arenas: the state’s enthusiastic embrace of the death penalty, and Republican frontrunner Rick Perry’s touted track record of job creation. Perry’s history of job [...]

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What I Ask

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What can one ordinary person do when they give themselves permission to be the best that they can be?  What is the yardstick that you use to measure your personal worth? Music Credits:  Kevin MacLeod Please share this story!

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ZCD Foundation update – From water to schools, agriculture and housing.

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In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers. When the child turned, they shot him. They killed him. Zainab knew this boy’s death was her call to action. ZCD Foundation is the profound purpose grown out of this shattering pain. In [...]

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Sex Trafficking Survivor, Tina Frundt, Works to Help Other Victims

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From CNN’s Freedom Project: This is part of CNN’s year-long effort to shed a light on, and perhaps help stop, human trafficking. In the video below, 2007 CNN Hero, Tina Frundt works to save victims of child sex trafficking. She herself was a victim at the age of 14. Tina Frundt, 2010 Fredrick Douglass Award [...]

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You Are The One Who Changes Everything

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                    Last week I spent the day with a treasured friend I had not seen in two years. We walked. We sat. We watched the horizon. We thought out loud. We listened inside. We laughed. We yakked. We spouted. We reasoned. We rhapsodized. We vented. We [...]

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Land on “Goldilocks” Planet for Sale on eBay

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The alien planet Gliese 581g set off a firestorm of controversy in 2010 when astronomers loudly declared it to be the first truly habitable planet found outside our solar system. One of several planets known to orbit the red dwarf star Gliese 581, the headline-grabbing world was described by one researcher as being “just the [...]

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You Know That I’ll Be Reaching For Higher Ground

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“Given the possibility of living up to the dream in me, you know that I’ll be reaching for higher ground.” John Denver (Higher Ground) Throughout my life and my career I have recognized when the conversations within me asked me, moved me, pushed me to take paths of new, powerful and unique challenge. Such was [...]

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Growing a Global Heart

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“We stood in El Mina slave dungeon, on the Cape Coast of Ghana on a recent trip to West Africa, overwhelmed by despair, grief and rage. Without needing to verbalize it, we were both imagining what reaching this spot must have felt like for some long-ago, un-remembered African ancestor as she stood trembling on the [...]

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Oil Spill Truth: Georgia Hirsty Tells It Like it is

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Georgia’s day job right now is splicing lines and chipping paint aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, but that’s not all that’s on her mind. We’ll let her tell you. Please share this story!

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Social Revolution – You’re the App for That!

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Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, doesn’t believe social media can make revolutionary change in society. I disagree. Because before the internet and now and ever, revolutionary change in society has to do with you and me. We are the app for that. iPhones use the download link to listen Music [...]

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