Social Entrepreneurship

I'm looking forward to attending the unconference at Compostmodern, where sustainability and design meet. As an urban farmer/user experience designer, I love this fertile ground where disciplines aren't so disciplined, and people aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.

I mean this literally – I'd rather meet people over compost than coffee.

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This past year, CivicActions has undergone a transformation in the way that we organize project teams.  We've moved from a "matrix" model (people contributing to several projects) to what we call "Pods" (dedicated teams focused on one or two projects at a time). This transformation has yielded incredible results for clients and project team members. This model also means that we can more easily scale, which we are preparing to do in 2010.

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This is really fascinating, I reccommend checking it out, basically it allows people to invest in small business of folks from around the world. But the best part is, you can micro-lend like $20, and if 100 people do it, the guy's got enough to start a veggie cart, or an auto shop. I just found out about it today, and it looks really promising. Since it's my Birthday today, I invested $25 in Rose Wamaitha Shoe Shop. http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=3896

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