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RESOURCES FOR YOU - A NEW VIDEO ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Today we are thrilled to share with you a brand new video that highlights KIVA and PLAYPUMPS, as well as many of the case studies from this blog.
Video: "The Tactics of Hope - Join the Social Entrepreneur Movement"
Please join us and send this video to your friends, family, colleagues, and anyone you know who is looking for ways to make a real and lasting difference in the world. If you'd like to learn more about this exciting movement, see this exciting news update here:
San Francisco - November 10, 2008 . . . The recent election of President Barack Obama has given hope to millions and inspired them to address the many local and global challenges at hand. For the past two years, Wilford Welch (a U.S. Diplomat, professor of international business, and acclaimed author) and David Hopkins (a recent college graduate and aspiring social entrepreneur), have been writing a book and creating a website to inspire and support those very people who want to join this movement. Today they released a new video outlining the core concepts of their book The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World. The short video, available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Most notably, the video highlights two inspirational and exemplary companies that have been celebrated by Oprah, Jay-Z, former President Bill Clinton, National Geographic, MTV, CNN, PBS, and NBC. The first, Playpumps, provides fresh drinking water to thousands of people in Africa via an incredibly simple, innovative, and scalable system, and the second, Kiva, facilitates peer-to-peer loans via the Internet to allow impoverished people develop their own businesses.
The video also showcases a new and exciting social networking tool on the Tactics of Hope website at http://www.tacticsofhope.org called My Circle. Welch explains that the tool is designed for individuals, at no cost, to determine what social or environmental causes they're passionate about, where in the world they want to make a difference, and how they can do so. "All of the sudden, pops up your wheel, with those thirty organizations and individuals around the world who are the closest to you in their concerns, their passions, and who want to collaborate." The tool is easy to use and provides a great way for people to quickly and easily donate to, volunteer for, or collaborate with non-profit and for profit organizations around the world.
