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28-year-old Sarah Toumi discusses her lifelong passion for social entrepreneurship and how it has influenced her work.
Since the young age of 12 she has been working to change the world, particularly through providing more educational opportunities for disadvantaged children. In the years that have followed, Toumi has broadened her scope to combatting various environmental crises namely climate change and deforestation which have resulted in a decrease in rainwater.
Toumi recognized the large problem this created for farmers and established her program Acacias for All to aid farmers in using techniques that will both benefit their crops while being more environmentally conscious. Through her program Toumi works to introduce farmers to the beneifits provided by acacia trees whose nutrients serve to enrich the soil and allow for a more fruitful harvest. Read the Entire Article
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The University of Utah's Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy has narrowed its list of finalists for its $500,000 Climate Launch Prize to seven. The goal of the prize, which is one of the...more
"Having a purposeful job actually does transform someone's life," says Edwin Walsh, who runs a social enterprise in Australia called Assembled Threads. "You actually are moving someone from...more
Foundation: Citi Foundation
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Canada is putting its money where its mouth is, with a $2.5 million investment in five projects in India meant to help the country's poor, the Toronto Star reports. "Many of these novel projects...more
Foundation: Hawaii Community Foundation
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Building a Million Dollar Company Where Everyone Counts
Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.
