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Create a Real Safety Net Through a Social Network

While you might use a social media wall post to humble-brag about your new iPhone, share a baby pic or, admit it, an LOLcat, 19 year-old...

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Creating a Real Safety Net Through a Social Network

The Camellia Network makes it easy to help a former foster kid become a thriving adult. See how internet strangers are stepping up.

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Health Candy?! These Super Models and Movie Stars Are Betting On It (Video)

If you take the junk out of junk food, what do you have? A slew of celebrities owning a candy company they can dig into. Plus an awesome ad video.

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Branchless Banks: Financial Innovation that Actually Helps the Poor

A crop of small tech companies are bridging the gap between rich banks and poor customers in Mexico.

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A Global Dinner Party to Save the World

How much good can a dinner party do? Here's a plan to connect hundreds of simultaneous dinners in hopes of hatching the next big idea to end poverty.

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Would You Want to Live in the Most Economically Equal Town in America?

Here's the most economically equal town in America. And it sounds boring as hell.

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Is This the Dawning of the Age of the Co-op? Co-operative Businesses Are Booming in Tough Times

You'd expect worker-owned businesses to be better for workers, but they're also delivering better bottom lines during the recession. Here's why.

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Local Banking Beyond the Bottom Line: Three Awesome Models

These socially-motivated local banks are profit making, but not profit maximizing. They've been at it for decades and it's beginning to catch on.

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Meet Literary Jukebox, a Daily Dose of Art Discovery

Sometimes a good book sings louder with the right soundtrack. Now there's a highly personal website dishing out daily pairings of lit and song.

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21st Century Hitchhiking: Social Carpooling Launches on East Coast

California’s leading carpool company is now bi-coastal. Zimride is now trying to steal away passengers from Chinatown buses up and down the Northeast.

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Social Impact Bond Launches in U.S. Backed By Goldman Sachs, Mike Bloomberg Billionaires See Profit in Prisons, But It's a Good Thing This Time

The money men at Goldman Sachs join NYC's Billionaire-in-Chief to use creative finance for good. The Social Impact Bond has come to America!

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Get Paid to Ignore Your Car for Months at a Time

Getaround will promise you at least $1,000 if you let them rent out your car for three months. So, go on, take a vacation.

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The Solar Charging Kit for Africa You Want for Your Own Home

A solar charger built for Africa has found unexpected success with American customers. It's "trickle-up innovation."

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This Entrepreneur Is Raising $1K an Hour By Sitting on the Toilet The TOMS of Toilet Paper Is Sitting on the John 'Till He Gets $50K

This Australian entrepreneur is livestreaming himself on the potty to get his charitable toilet paper company off the ground.

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New York City's Dirty 10,000 Get Paid To Clean Up

One percent of the city's buildings spew more soot than all its cars. Now New York has motivated banks to lend to landlords so they can clean up.

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Steal This Idea: Sprint Switches to Netflix-Like Envelopes to Save Money, Trees

Why use two when one does the trick? If every credit card and phone company did this they'd save millions of dollars—and trees.

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Should Fighting Hunger Be a Franchise Business?

Despite the occasional controversy, two social enterprises are using the Coca-Cola model to fight hunger in Africa.

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