the end of poverty

29 Aug 2008 5 Comments

2 Views on Development & Doing Good Well

If you’ve been involved in the discussion about poverty and international development in the past few years, you probably know the name Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs is a development economist at Columbia University, advisor to the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, and author of the bestselling work, The End of Poverty. You may or may not [...]

by admin in FirstGiving news Tags: Africa, aid, Bono, clean water, development economics, development theory and practice, history of development, impact analysis, international aid, international development, Jeffrey Sachs, Make Poverty History, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, Social media fundraising, social networking, SOL, sustainability, the Earth Institute, the end of poverty, The White Man's Burden, web 2.0, William Easterly

13 Aug 2008 3 Comments

Thoughts on Social Business, Part 2: I Scream for Yogurt

Flickr image courtesy of danone.communities

Several posts ago, we blogged about the idea of using for-profit business models for social benefits, one example of this being Ben & Jerry’s partnership with the ONE Campaign. While we salute this effort and contribution to improve the quality of life, we posed the following question: Is there a more effective way to use business [...]

by admin in FirstGiving news Tags: aid delivery, Ashoka, Ben & Jerry's, capitalism, Danone-Grameen, Grameen, Grameen-Danone, lactose tolerance, Make Poverty History, micro-philanthropy, Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, non-profit for-profit partnership, NPR, one campaign, social business, social business enterprise, social business marketing, the end of poverty, yogurt

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