FreeBalance Wins 2009 Canada Export Achievement Award
FreeBalance, a For Profit Social Enterprise (FOPSE) software company that helps governments around the world to leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth, is pleased to announce that the company has won the 2009 Canada Export Achievement Award for the Ontario region. The Canada Export Achievement Awards are a joint venture [...]

Media Goes to School
I recently went back to school – specifically, to the Williamsburg College Charter School in Brooklyn, N.Y. I was there to check out the News Literacy Project, an initiative founded last year by Alan Miller, a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times and an unflagging advocate for the value of journalism to society. Alan’s [...]

Volkswagen Speaks to the Inner Child in All of Us
The Fun Theory is simple: the best way to change people’s behavior for the better is to make what previously required effort to become enjoyable. Ideas like the Bottle Bank Arcade Machine, the Piano Stairs, and The World’s Deepest Trash Bin were all put into application around Europe and the results have been obvious. People [...]

DePaul MBA Students Embrace Social Entrepreneurship
While finding work that pays a good salary is still important to business students, finding work that promotes social good is becoming a priority for many of them, too. Recent national surveys by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education found that 88 percent of business students believe for-profit companies should do more to address [...]

Vittana Applies Microfinance Model to Education
A cause that I’m personally passionate about is education. I, as many of you, believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to pursue a world class education. Unfortunately, for most students around the world, this is simply not true. In fact, for many students right here in the United States, this sentiment isn’t true. While [...]