A Private School System for 10 Million Kids—at $6 Monthly Tuition! By: Professor Dennis Shaughnessy That’s right, a private school in which poor children learn from highly trained teachers using an innovative curriculum and standardized low cost books and computer tablets for $6 a month. It’s called Bridge International Academies, Read more…
Which articles are catching your eye in your newsfeed? Send us something to think about! Women in Business: Q&A with the Founder & CEO of Seeding Labs The Founder & CEO of Seeding Labs, Dr. Dudnik, is a molecular biologist who started the nonprofit that has invested in scientific researchers in 22 different countries Read more…
By: Angelica Recierdo Social enterprises and the people that make them possible work in every field. Here’s a list of who to pay attention to and how they are innovating in ways around us. Education 826 National provides tutoring and writing help to students of all ages in a space Read more…
by Alex Vipond Last year, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) passed a regulation to drastically decrease the amount of food waste going to landfills, where it usually emits potent greenhouse gases. Instead, the DEP wants this food waste to be composted. However, the DEP reports that composting plants Read more…
by Anea Schaffel At the age of 18, I found myself on an airplane to beautiful South Africa where I spent my gap year after high school volunteering. For a year, I lived and worked in a children’s home in the province Kwa-Zulu Natal, and it was absolutely amazing! My co-volunteer Read more…
by Dennis R. Shaughnessy My students often ask me for a specific and exact definition of a social entrepreneur. Just one definition, that’s clear and concise and definitive. It’s not so easy to answer that question, given the many definitions offered by a diverse group of people. It’s surely an Read more…