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Change.org
Change.org raises awareness about important causes and empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits.

SocialEdge.org
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

SSIReview.org
Strategies, tools, and ideas for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses.

ForeignPolicy.com
Equal parts scout and translator, FP draws on the world’s leading journalists, thinkers, and professionals to analyze the most significant international trends and events of our times, without regard to ideology or political bias.

Social Innovation Exchange
SIX is a global community of over 400 individuals and organisations – including small NGOs and global firms, public agencies and academics - committed to promoting social innovation and growing the capacity of the field.

GES Alumni & Facilitator Blogs

 
GES Alumni and Facilitators do great things. An introductory collection of their recent blog posts is below. Want your blog included in our collection? Email our Alumni Team.
from kiwanja
Celebrating the art of the possible
Tonight in Santa Clara, California, several thousand people will be standing on the stage with me as I collect a Tech Award for FrontlineSMS. It̵...

from Britt Bravo
Record Your Grandma's Stories: StoryCorps' National Day of Listening is Nov. 27
Will you be spending Thanksgiving with friends who tell great stories, a relative who has wonderful tales from "back in the day," or just someone spec...

Saving the (developing) world, one (young) person at a time.
Sunit Shrestha, in his groundbreaking article, Young Development Innovators published at Beyond Tunis. Flightplan 1.5 of the Global Knowledge Partners...

FrontlineSMS:Medic at PopTech
Pop!Tech has published the presentations from this year's Social Innovation Fellows, and I thought I'd share the 5-minute talk on FrontlineSMS:Medic a...

Socratic Leadership
My friend and former Do Good Well blogger, Nathaniel Whittemore, has added a great post over at Change.org, “How Your Leader’s Expertise C...

from Nathaniel Whittemore
Using Thanksgiving To Learn About Sustainable Food
This blog is largely dedicated to exploring social innovation and using market strategies to change the world. One of the most bedrock economic social...

from Eileen
Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships: What Makes Them Work
  It has become common practice for nonprofits and corporations to partner in a variety of ways. One could involve a corporation sponsoring a non...

Letter from new Executive Director, Jon Shaffer
Jon Shaffer is a recent graduate of Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering. Following his work as president of the...

Yatin: Introduction
Hi Everyone, My name is Yatin Sethi and I am an Atlas Corps 2008 Fellow. This is my first post and I would like to give you a little background abo...

from Darren Miao
First Counter-Trafficking Loan on Kiva
Hello Kiva World --I wanted to highlight a loan that was recently posted by AMK – our largest microfinance partner in Cambodia. This loan is the fir...

from David Platzer
An Empathetic Evolution: The 2009 Acumen Fund Investor Gathering
Several days ago, Acumen Fund hosted its Investor Gathering, an annual event – part open house, part state of the union – that gives investors a c...

from Emily Wright
Food for thought
Like most of the American versions of international food, the Chinese food we typically have in the States does not do the real Chinese food justice...