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Archive for Social Good / Giving
Spread the Love with L. Condoms
Dec 29, 2010 | (0) Comments
The idea behind L., a new condom company with a cause, is to support women globally by focusing on their sexual empowerment. For every condom purchased, one is distributed in a developing country.L. is out...
Facebook Co-Founder Creates New Social Network for Change
Facebook has changed the face of social connections, but what if your status updates and social capital could be driven by social change? That's the idea behind the newly launched beta version of JUMO. Created...
Top 10 of 2010: Social Good
Despite difficult times and serious hurdles, 2010 has seen some amazing breakthroughs and progressive thinking in regards to social change. The rebound from the financial crisis and rising global awareness have led to a meaningful...
Project 7: Turning Vice into Victory for Social Change
What if everything you buy anyway could do a world of good? That's the idea behind Project 7, a cause-related company that lets consumer products work harder for the world. They produce everything from bio-bottled...
The Power of the Girl Effect
Dec 1, 2010 | (0) Comments
The involvement of women and girls is critical to alleviating poverty and changing the world, and one organization in particular is bringing that into focus. The Girl Effect aims to harness "the unique potential of...
Invisible Children Uses Creativity to Save Uganda's Youth
Nov 24, 2010 | (0) Comments
The war in Northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been...
RecycleBank Turns Garbage into Rewards
Nov 18, 2010 | (0) Comments
Remember bringing your plastic bottles in to the supermarket for recycling? Yep, a penny saved is a penny earned and at five cents a pop, those bottles of pop certainly add up! As it turns...
Giant Game of Tag Gets People to Give Back!
Nov 12, 2010 | (0) Comments
What can we learn from kids about changing the world? Make it fun--so fun it's contagious. That's the idea behind HandsOn Network's latest initiative, "Tag, You're it!": a giant game of virtual tag for good!...
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