This is the second article in a series by Linda Smith, Founder & Executive Director of Reading Village, about the softer side of community development, where she shares the power of relationships and surprises in her international development work. In 1980, as a...
The Social Enterprise Toronto Conference 2016 marked the second such event for the organization. This year Social Enterprise Toronto (SET) brought together their growing community of social entrepreneurs to the Learning Enrichment Foundation in Toronto with the...
March 21, 2016 is the 11th annual World Down Syndrome Day, a day to spread awareness about the “rights, inclusion and wellbeing of people with Down Syndrome.” One of the biggest barriers to inclusion is special education access for children with disabilities....
After years of transforming food scraps into soil in a north central Florida college town, the urban composting startup BikeCompost will bring their expertise out of the Earth and onto the screens of social entrepreneurs everywhere. On March 20, BikeCompost will...
Wednesday, February 17 is Digital Learning Day. A day to celebrate advancing education through tech, and according to the official ‘Digital Learning Day’ website, a day started “as a way to actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to...
I have been a student of poverty for over three decades. Through traveling to Mexico on youth service trips, working with children and homeless populations in the inner cities of the US, studying formally at the graduate level, running a fair trade venture and now a...
