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Get inspired A selection of books, websites and blogs related to "Social Venture Forum"

Books

“How to change the world” - David Bornstein


		Books “Banker to the poor” - by Muhammad Yunus,Alan Jolis


		Books “The art of the start” – Guy Kawasaki


		Books “The world is flat” - Thomas L. Friedman

Websites:

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Articles:

The $600 billion challenge
Graduation Speech by Jeffrey Skoll, MBA '95
Jessica Lin is a Changemaker
Sting wants poor children to have a ball
Exciting News from Unitus
Shokay June Newsletter
One Foundation Joins Hands With Tencent For Internet Donations
Attacking Urgent Threats? Brilliant!
Facebook for China's Farmers
China Mobile Allocates RMB 70B to Countryside
Google Helps Rock The Vote In India
Riders for Health Inks Innovative Deal in Gambia
New Skoll Foundation Short Film on Social Entrepreneurship
Google.org Gets More Business-Like
Medpedia's Health Platform Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered
Bill Gates Wants to Help the Third World With Cellphone Banking
Half The Sky Launches Child to Child Website
Hooking into Kiva
Half the Sky Partners with China Care
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
build.kiva: The Home for Kiva Developers
The Global Social Venture Competition
Root Causes vs. Facebook Causes
Pamela Hartigan: The Power of Unreasonable People
Kiva in Time Magazine Top 50 Web Site List
The latest on online giving marketplaces
Help Eliminate Poverty, Make a Microloan to An Entrepreneur
YouTube Fights Global Poverty With "In My Name"
Power To The Bottom
TransFair's Work in Fair Trade
Lending to the poor has rich rewards
Grameenphone to break Bangladesh's IPO record
"Creative Capitalism - By Bill Gates, January 24, 2008 - World Economic Forum - Davos, Switzerland"
Creative Capitalism
Stanford Social Innovation Review Receives $1 Million Gift
Microsoft Increases Investments In Rural China
Startup & Change the World: Guide for Young Social Entrepreneurs
NYT Magazine Asks: Can Cellphones Alleviate Poverty?
ChinasGreenBeat.com - a new "Pro-Social media for a Green China" ?
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
M-Cril plans equity exchange for `social investments`
Discovery Acquires TreeHugger.com For $10million
Social Fabric & Shokay in China
Channeling India's Entrepreneurial Energy for Economic Development
Giving It Away
Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World
Social Entrepreneurship Day 2008
Google.org, Nonprofits Launching $17 Million Indian Investment Co
A week's worth of science news
Let My People Go Surfing
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver
Rupert Howes Leads Sea Change for World's Fisheries
GlobalGiving Invites Nominations
The age of ambition
Most likely Internet Start Up to make the world a better place
The Responsibility Paradox
NComputing raises $28M to spread cheap computers to poor
New Social Innovation Podcasts
MII: Broadband Available In 92% Of Rural Areas
White paper on energy policies issued
China vows to develop clean energies
The innovation PICNIC
Giving Thanks Through Kiva
The Six Lessons of Kiva
A conversation with Bill Clinton
UN, Google, Cisco unveil online resource on MDGs Monitoring
Tencent Endows Public Charity Foundation with RMB 20 Million and Unveils Public Charity Homepage
Kiva vs. MicroPlace - What's the Difference?
Social Ventures ideas
Students to manage Socially Responsible Investment Fund
Rural Internet Users Exceed 37M
Microfinance Fund Supports Internet Service for Rural Markets
JUCCCE, A Plan to Meet China's Energy Challenge: Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy
China's income gap
China's mobile maestro
Approval For Chinese Internet Charity Foundation
Illiteracy on the decline
Green venture capital - a nascent corner of the growing market for socially responsible investments
Heroes From a Small Planet Film Festival: Social Entrepreneurs Videos
A Chinese start-up tries to grow in harsh climate
The next big idea - by Muhammad Yunus
An interview with Rupert Murdoch about News Corp.'s new climate strategy
How Do You Take Your Coffee?
Red Hat Global Desktop and Client Computing Roadmap announced
World's Third-Richest Man Gaining Wealth
Businesses try to make money and save the world
China's green revolution
The new Heroes - What is Social Entrepreneurship?
Driving social good
Example of project – ventures & foundation related
Buffett's grand and generous idea may spread
Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual
Pierre Omidyar - Empower Seller

Events:

Crocodyl - Collaborative Research on Corporations
UNIDO Private Sector Development Toolbox
Business Planet: new data map on Entrepreneurship
How the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Corporate Social Responsibility: Environmental projects in developing Countries
SEED Awards 2009 for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development
World Entrepreneurship Forum
Cultural Creativity & Entrepreneurship - Emergence of new Social Ventures - Presentation available
Social Venture Forum - International expansion & new chapter announcement
Mobile Social Venture - Presentation available
Film Social Venture - Presentation available
Upcoming Deadlines for Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Applications
Skoll World Forum, March 2008
Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship
If you had the world's attention for a few minutes ... what story would you tell?
Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship
Governing Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies
Social Venture Internship opportunities in New York, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa ... and China
Japan-China Social Entrepreneurship
Speeches of enterprises
Breakfast Seminar - Social Venture - A Two Way Benefit
A UN Conference to promote Corporate Social Responsibility in China - 29 June
Thinking Green - July 3rd - Beijing
Mobile Social Ventures - Presentations available
Mobile Social Ventures | June 11
New Ventures China Investor Forum - May 31st, 2007
International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Booz Allen Hamilton Social Venture Challenge - HK, China
Events, Harvard & SE Business Plan
2007 Social Enterprise Conference