Elisabeth Rhyne on how lenders ethically get their small loans repaid.
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As a Harvard-trained pediatrician, Cheryl Dorsey could have had her pick of plum jobs. But her experience launching a mobile health program to serve inner-city Boston neighborhoods while still in medical school changed her path forever. "I developed a deep interest in social justice and social change work," Dorsey says. "It transformed my thinking about [...]
How’s Facebook’s environmental track record looking these days? Well, Facebook has a whopping 21,541 causes in their Environment category, and it’s helped provide a platform for nonprofits to fundraise — for example, $350,161 for the Nature Conservancy (the number-two cause on Facebook, at least in terms of dollars raised). Not bad, huh?
Except for the fact [...]
While the American conservative movement howls and spits in a Tea Party-inspired rage, British conservatives are quietly rebuilding their party as the party of the networked age. This morning, the U.K.’s likely next Prime Minister, conservative David Cameron, made a surprise appearance at TED via simulcast from London to explain what this could mean.
Cameron started [...]
Economist Bill Priest gives investing lessons through poker antidotes.
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If April is the cruelest month, turns out February is fellowship season. A number of my favorite organizations across the social entrepreneurship space have just opened application or nomination processes for fellowships that offer community, money, free attendance at conferences and more. Here’s a list of the one’s I’ve come across recently and wanted to [...]
Over the past week, buzz around the iPad has been deafening. First it was the rumors, then it was the reactions — on the one hand, scathing attacks, and on the other, passionate defenses. (Each accompanied by an avalanche of jokes about the name.)
For some, the din started to seem like too much, especially when [...]
Keith Fitz-Gerald is the chief investment strategist for Money Map Press and is the author of ”Fiscal Hangover.”
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Economist Bill Priest predicts more mergers and acquisitions in the recession.
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Economist Bill Priest on how companies should pay down debt.
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