Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

My good buddy Mel Young of the Homeless World Cup was the evening keynoter: he's got an exciting story to tell. Sophi Tranchell of Divine Chocolate explained how her organization came to be 45% owned by the Ghanaian farmers coop that provides most of their cocoa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! Collectively, we are getting ambitious about social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2006

There are people who appear to be homeless, but that occurs in Palo Alto, too. New Delhi is full of tree-lined boulevards. From something I had read, I had an image of people sleeping on every available square inch of space. Like Palo Alto, they tend to be in downtown areas and not so much around much of the city that I toured.

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