Tag Archives | Community Building

Mining Gold in E-Waste and Ex-Cons

By on April 2, 2013 in Building a Social Venture, Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

Kabira Stokes is YOXI’s newest Social Innovation Rockstar (SIR) — Yoxi’s term for entrepreneurs who are rocking the social innovation Casbah.  We were inspired by Kabira’s unique ability to realize how seemingly unrelated problems can be linked together to form a systemic solution. Stokes’ triple-bottom-line social enterprise was built on the realization that hundreds of [...]

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Precipice

By on December 3, 2012 in Health, Starting the Journey, Youth Development

It’s a quarter to 9pm PST and I’m currently squatting in a coffee shop on Palo Alto’s University Avenue. I wasn’t able find a place on campus with free Wi-Fi, so I traipsed over here. I’m living in New York now, but happened to fly out just a few days ago for a friend’s wedding. [...]

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Haiti, Fierce Hope, and Social Enterprise

By on November 21, 2012 in Starting the Journey

“What the heck am I doing?” I’ve asked myself that question countless times in the year and a half since starting my own social venture.  From marketing and pricing to web design and hiring, half the time I feel like I’m just making things up as I go along and the other half of the [...]

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The Problem with Philanthropists

By on November 5, 2012 in Community Building, Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

We should start with the basics: in our world, some have more than others. In fact, there is massive inequality to the extent that some people can barely survive. This bothers many of us (and probably most of us reading this website) because we believe that everyone’s basic needs should be met. So, to spur [...]

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SocialChange.is About the Journey

By on October 30, 2012 in Featured, Social Entrepreneurship, Starting the Journey

It’s 3:55 in the morning on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 – launch day for SocialChange.is. As I type this post in bed, I know I won’t be getting any more sleep tonight. I woke up about an hour ago and have been thinking about everything that needs to happen today. All the emails I need [...]

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Part-Time Social Entrepreneur, Full-Time Changemaker

By on August 29, 2012 in Community Building, Featured, Social Intrapreneurship, Starting the Journey

I’m going to be entirely honest: I’m only a part-time social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneur has been my working title for the past few years, but just two weeks ago–I’ve decided this term does not fully describe what I do. *** Sitting on the floor in her two-room hut, we shared a pot of coffee. We’d [...]

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Revealing the Path by Walking

By on August 7, 2012 in Social Entrepreneurship, Starting the Journey

My story is a bit of a non-story. I was always in awe of those who had a passion: the environment; the arts; puppies. I mean, I like puppies and everything, but I never wanted to dedicate my life to them.  I didn’t have a specific professional vision for myself and so didn’t chart a [...]

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