Design Competition Seeks "Do-Gooders"

cause/affect (http://causeaffect.aigasf.org/) is a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Produced by AIGA San Francisco, this is a competition for do-gooders who do good work. Send in your entries before June 19, 2009.

The details of the competition are simple: all work entered must promote or support social good. All we ask is that it doesn't contribute di…

Something Good is looking to build a team of writers.

What is Something Good?
-Something Good is an online source of positive information, good news for you to know. Our goal is to showcase the innumerable individuals and groups working to accomplish remarkable things for the gr…

An idea that he pushed in his most recent book, Creating a World Without Poverty, is starting to get more media attention. Just check this out:

The founding father of microcredit has called for a social business fund and social stock market to ensure social enterprise is at the heart of a recovering economy.

Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank which lends mone…

Sustainable Life Media is the leading producer of sustainable business conferences and events, with supporting products and services that include targeted e-newsletters, an online community, research, marketing services and more.…

The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)

Camfed is dedicated to fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic independence and leadership once they complete school. Since 1993, Camfed has been working in partnership…

The Mission

“Sanuk is translated as fun, but means much more…”

In Search of Sanuk (ISOS) is a community where people can collaborate on ways to change the world around them. We hope to encourage travelers to open their eyes, equip expats for self-activism…

I recently discovered another exciting social business incubator and wanted to help spread the word. Here is a little bit about Idea Box from their website.

WHO WE ARE

We're a team of young professionals: socially conscious, hig…

The world is full of students and visionaries and people who want to make a difference in the world, and many of those people share their knowledge online through their blogs. Whether you want to change the world through environment, humanitarianism, business, or any other way, there…

For those of you who are interested, you can follow SG on Facebook here !

You can follow me on Twitter here !

And of course, Somthing Good is right here !

Thank you ALL for the support and encouragement!

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I put myself- I put us out there.

I applied to a social incubator called All Day Buffet tonight (http://www.alldaybuffet.org/). I am excited and nervous to be taking steps to advance Something Good. There is a safety in anonymity that is comforting. Although I suppose, SG is not ano…

Hey everybody! There's a new blog up! Check it out...

I attended a fundraiser about 3 weeks ago; Phat Beets Produce was great then and is still great today.

The good news is that good things happen every day; the bad news is that I simply can't keep up with it all!

The fundraiser I…

Recently, and thanks to Zak, we've been having a really wonderful and active discussion on Your Big Ideas here on Futureshifters. It was brought to my attention that there were many other "Idea Banks" out there and here's a post about one of them.

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This is a really great post that I saw from PSFK that I felt compelled to share. You can read the original article here.

Malcolm Gladwell examines the plight of the underdog in his latest piece for…

The original article can be found on the US Today website here.

Eric Cieslewicz has spent the last couple of months drumming up business.

Faced with dismal employment prospects at traditional teen-friendly employers, the 18-year-old has turned his p…

In addition to Microplace, there is another online lending platform that is doing some great work with other unbankable people.

Prosper Loans Marketplace is America's largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Connecting people to people eliminates…

Tripple Bottom Line from Challenge Your World on Vimeo.

Challenge Your World is a Canadian, for-profit organization that helps aspiring entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into sustainable businesses. Our mission is to foster a new generation of socially responsible, environmentally friendly, and financially viable companies. We believe companies in the 21st century…

Mission

The Pure Project is committed to supporting the creative sustainable economy in the transformation of ideas into value based, enterprises that are sustainable on all levels. In doing so we expect to build a community of sustainable businesses, which support each o…

Before eBay bought World Of Good, they bought MicroPlace. A concept very similar to Kiva, MicroPlace allows you to invest in entrepreneurs in the developing world while simultaneously earning a profit. So, MicroPlace is a social business owned by eBay. We want to alleviate global pover…

Hi there futureshifters!

Vibewire being a hub for young social entrepreneurs, we are running a series of amazing workshops to empower and engage young people.

Our next workshop "Expose Yourself" by Jonica Bray from Publicly Insiders & Talia Taylor-Jones from rare Indigo will teach you how to get free PR!

When: Saturday 30th May, 12.30/5.30pm

Where: Vibewire enterprise hub, 525 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007

Cost: only $30!

For more information…

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Steve