January 2012
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IDEO.org x TEDx
Ideo.org exists “to bring human-centered design to the humans who need it most — those facing poverty every day. [They’re] teaming up with nonprofits, social enterprises and foundations to innovate solutions to the world’s most dire poverty-related challenges. Imagine, a world without poverty.”
Recently, these folks developed TEDx to Go, “an inconspicuous and durable carry-on...
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Causes.com
Causes.com takes a crowdsourcing approach towards activism and fundraising. It allows users to promote causes and collectively donate to nonprofits, NGOs and activism projects. It works on a few levels.
1. There’s an amazing sense of transparency in those who are promoting their causes on the site. The nonprofits involved communicate regularly to their donors and anyone interested in...
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Apolis Global Nepal Project
“Although Apolis is heavily inspired by philanthropy, we are a for-profit social enterprise wherein our customers act as benefactors, allowing Apolis to grow as a sustainable business instead of depending on fundraising for support. We have found this model of social business to be the most valuable and effective way to accomplish our ambitious long term goals of “advocacy through industry.”...
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Catapult Design x Trade Without Borders
Catapult Design works with NGOs and Nonprofits to tackle their problems providing solutions routed in holistic approaches and “smart design.” They worked with Trade Without Borders to develop a solar powered mosquito trap to fight Malaria in areas with limited access to electricity. Malaria is a disease that takes 1 million lives each year. More than 3.3billion (half of the...
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Interview with Food Activist and Artist Jani... →
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The Green School
Built from bamboo, The Green School in Bali, Indonesia devotes a large part of its curriculum to sustainable living.
www.thegreenschool.org
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Wieden WK+12
WK+12 is a graduate school-esque program that recruits 12 individuals from eclectic backgrounds each year. The twelve bunk it up, so to speak, in Wieden + Kennedy’s Portland office and for one year act as an advertising agency, developing advertising campaigns and marketing strategies exclusively for nonprofit organizations who would never have the budget to gain access to WK’s...
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WatchFine Without It
Lou Padilla doesn’t consider himself a locksmith. He considers himself a lock expert. He’s pretty good at fixing things, so when he broke his ankle a few years back, he decided to set it himself. His wife called him a “knucklehead”. But he didn’t have health insurance, and he still doesn’t. He explains why. (source: npr.org)
I think that a lot of the problems we face in the US have...
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Art, Activism, and the Brazilian Favela
“In Rio a pair of Dutch artists and a paint company have triggered a change in the urban landscape of Rio. The artists had an idea to change the living environment of the Favela as a means to try and change how residents and the city at large related with the slum. After the success of the first couple of projects the Coral paint company got on board and now the slum is becoming known for...
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Robert Heinecken and Wallace Berman @ The Armory →
“This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern...