Cast your vote for the video that makes you feel the most connected to an incredible grassroots development project. GlobalGiving gathered raw footage (photos and video) from more than twenty high-impact projects around the world.

Film makers used this footage to create compelling and interesting videos that tell the stories of these projects and the people who are helped by the work they do. Each video tells the story of a GlobalGiving project and will help to connect these amazing projects with the support they need.
 
Your vote will determine which videos do the best job of telling the project’s story. Check out all of the finalists’ videos and decide for yourself.  Even better, get all of your friends and family to vote too! The more people who get to know these projects, the more positive change we can create around the world.

Three prizes for videos with most votes: scholarship for students or gift to project
-          1st prize US $1,000
-          2nd prize $500
-          3rd prize $300

Your vote will make a difference.

Vote today! 

Ashoka and the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program are pleased to launch the inaugural Faculty Pioneer Award in Social Entrepreneurship Education.

If you know professors who’ve done outstanding work in the area of social entrepreneurship –whether through scholarly studies or involvement with student activities— please take a moment to nominate them. The process is brief; you only need answer three short questions and include your CV. And the benefits are great; winners will receive $1500, and by participating, you will help advance the study and practice of social entrepreneurship around the world.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, July 13, 2007. Please submit your nomination here.

Globally conscious young leaders interested in social entrepreneurship are invited to apply for one of the summer 2007 Young Global Leaders Summits, which are taking place across the US in the summer of 2007!

The summits in Washington, New York and Boston will feature skill-building and advocacy workshops and speakers from the Vice President of Ashoka to the former head of UNICEF.

- June 13 in Boston: The Next Generation of Global Partnerships, featuring diplomats from the U.S., Iraq, Libya, and China

- June 15 in New York City: Social Entrepreneurship and Global Change, featuring leaders from 15 different social enterprises

- June 29 in Washington, DC: Social Entrepreneurship and Global Change, featuring the COO of U.N. Foundation and the U.S. Coordinator of Millennium Campaign

- July 26 in New York City: Relate. Create. Innovate-YOU in the World, featuring the former head of UNICEF and the Vice President of Ashoka

More information can be found here.

This is a free professional networking site to encourage interaction between individuals & organizations worldwide involved in development, peace, social entreprenuership and related fields. Members are encouraged to dialogue and share resources.

The Meeting of the Minds Conference -- jointly convened by Toyota, the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, LandDesign, and Urban Age Institute -- aims to bring two worlds together around one common goal: designing more sustainable post-carbon cities while creating more sustainable vehicles.

This invitation-only Conference provides a unique platform for leading automotive technologists/engineers, who focus on designing cars and buses, to share their future visions with leading urban planners and designers, who focus on the built environments which house more than half of humanity.