We love the IDEX Accelerator! It helps those without much training in social entrepreneurship learn the ropes and get practical experience on the ground in some of our fave cities in India….Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. As a fellow, you are placed with a thriving local social enterprise, and you work for six months helping the(…)
Noreen Bautista (right) is an accidental entrepreneur and a purposeful change agent. Anne Mariposa (middle) hails from a family with a long history of fashion manufacturing expertise. And together they are a match made in eco-heaven. What started as an assignment to create a business plan and thesis among friends taking a social entrepreneurship class at(…)
Celeste North LOVES film – she also LOVES technology. She has been passionate about both since she was a kid. But as the years passed, she began to notice how easilythe independent filmmaker’s voice seems to get lost in the mainstream melee. And she wondered what that this loss meant for her native Mexico, for kids in(…)
Laurin’s love for her mother inspires her to take on prisoner reentry reform. Call my mother an ex-convict, and my heart wilts. My mother is smart and kind. She is an entrepreneur. Not to mention, she makes legendary mac-n-cheese. She is not the stigma looming over the 10,000 people who are released from U.S. prisons every single(…)
Sitting with village members of Nyarutosho Village, Rwanda, Sasha Fisher listened to mothers fret over not having proper sanitation. Latrines in the village were made out of sticks and leaves and children refused to use them, instead relieving themselves in the bush. The mothers wanted to change their circumstances, but simply did not have the(…)
