I’m reading David Bornstein’s How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. It profiles 20 or so social entrepreneurs and outlines trends and history of social entrepreneurship. I have a certain feeling of gestalt today – reading about citizen sector on 4th of July while enjoying the fruits, [...]
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Two big events in library/book land this week. One, Seattle City Librarian Deborah Jacobs is leaving Seattle Public and joining Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead the Global Libraries Initiative. Also, Better World Books just received 2.5 million in growth capital from the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund.
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I had a nice conversation with some of the brains behind Better World Books at their booth at PLA. They have developed recently a partnership with Room to Read, which I have written about before on this blog. If your library is not already participating in this great social enterprise, then what are you [...]
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IKEA is funding school libraries in Albania. Book Wish Foundation is to fund libraries that serve refugees from Darfur.
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From Dropping Knowledge, this interview with Ethan Zuckerman, part 1 and part 2, introduced me to Global Voices Online. I didn’t realize he was also part of Geekcorps.
I found this story under Global Voices Online, Education about parents in Bahrain lamenting the state of education in her country. One parent describes the need [...]
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Because I work for an online community, I’m fascinated by the power of online communities for supporting and strengthening a project and engaging new people into your work. I recently learned about Social Edge, an online community for social entrepreneurs. Check out the video blog of Nick Talarico and Kjerstin Erickson talking about [...]
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