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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. Skoll and Schwab have the two leading social entrepreneurship networks for senior practitioners, and it's great to see them working together to advance the movement.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

Have Fun - Do Good

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. Our conversation began with Marsha describing how Dining for Women works. What do you think makes the Dining for Women circles, the successful ones, work?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

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