''Si Dios está conmigo, ¿quién contra él?'', la frase de nueva reina de Bogotá| El Espectador. Juan David Aristizábal, el colombiano que cambia el mundo según Forbes - Noticias de Salud, Educación, Turismo, Ciencia, Ecología y Vida de hoy. Y la historia de la película se volvió realidad. Juan David Aristizábal tenía 13 años cuando en su natal Pereira vio un filme con un mensaje tan poderoso que le cambiaría la vida: Cadena de favores (Pay It Forward, en inglés). La cinta cuenta la historia de un profesor de colegio que les pide a sus alumnos que inventen métodos para cambiar el mundo. A uno de ellos se le ocurre la idea de ayudar a tres personas en algo que, por su cuenta, no podían lograr. En lugar de pedir una cosa a cambio a los beneficiarios del favor, el niño les recomienda que ayuden a otras tres personas, y que estas, a su vez, hagan lo mismo con tres más.
Así, miles de personas reciben un regalo inesperado. Aristizábal creció. Pero no ha sido su único reconocimiento reciente. No se cree el cuento de que es un niño genio. “Es una persona muy humilde, no le gusta mostrarse ni figurar. Libro por libro es solo un ejemplo de la labor de Buena Nota, pero hay muchos otros. Aprendió a pedir ayuda. At The Forefront Of Social Innovation In Latin America – Colombia. This is a community post, untouched by our editors. This article is written by Tricia Hackett and Diana Daste as part of the Social Life of Cities series It’s not all about Brazil – though the media might lead you to believe otherwise. Lesser known but not less exciting things are also happening in other Latin America countries, namely Colombia. With much fanfare, Colombia’s second city, Medellín, (also known as ‘The City of Eternal Spring’) was named the winner of the ‘City of the Year’ competition early this month.
The competition was developed by the non-profit Urban Land Institute and supported by Citi and the Wall Street Journal, who pronounced that the city has had one of the most remarkable turnarounds in modern urban history. More recently the national government is also promoting innovation – economic and social – as the key to increasing the nation’s competitiveness and enabling the economic growth that will improve quality of life. 6 E.
Tricia Hackett Twitter: @tmhackett. La Chèvre - Liberamos la creatividad. 45 Ideas of How To Recycle Plastic Bottles. Are you a fan of sustainable design? Then, you’ve come to the right place! We present you today 45 ideas of how to recycle plastic bottles and obtain decorative objects. For example, Michelle Brand designed an aesthetic curtain most people would perceive to be waste or rubbish. The fabric is composed of plastic drinks bottle bases, which have been cut, sanded and then tagged together. When asked what kind of special material and craft she applied in her designs, she answered: “I use plastic drinks bottles in my designs. It is so much more challenging to use an existing shape and material. You can also visit: 15 Ideas of How to Recycle Plastic Straws Artistically and 20 Ideas of How to Recycle Wine Bottles Wisely Fashioned as screens, curtains or room dividers, Michelle Brand strings together the flower-like bottoms of plastic bottles for her repurposed creations.
Also see 30000 bottle caps to decorate walls and a parking canopy of plastic bottles. Michelle’s pieces are made-to-order. La organización y los valores en la transformacion de la ciudad. A Social Entrepreneur Transforms a Nonprofit Into a Profit-Making Enterprise. Matthew Staver for The New York TimesSaul Garlick, ThinkImpact. Last week, we published a case study about a social entrepreneur, Saul Garlick, discussing what kind of legal structure would be best for his enterprise, ThinkImpact, which encourages entrepreneurship in third-world communities. He fundamentally had three options: continue as a nonprofit, go commercial, or find some sort of hybrid route. We asked three experts which option would be best. Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford, who is constantly advising aspiring social entrepreneurs, suggested that Mr.
Garlick hop off the “treadmill of donor dependency.” Many commenters agreed with Ms. We contacted Mr. Which of the three viewpoints could you relate with most? Jonathan Lewis’s. So, you decided to go the for-profit route. Ultimately, the decision came down to shareholders versus donors and vision. I am a huge fan of nonprofits. It is extremely different. La Feria Ambiental 2013 La Feria Ambiental 2013 » La Feria Ambiental 2013. La Fundación Humedales Bogotá los invita cordialmente a ser parte de La Feria Ambiental, evento que se realizará del 24 al 27 de octubre de 2013 en la ciudad de Bogotá en la Plaza de los Artesanos, ubicada en la Transversal 48 No. 63 A – 52, segundo recinto ferial de Bogotá y referente turístico de la ciudad.
La Feria Ambiental es un espacio alternativo que busca visibilizar, promover y divulgar los diferentes programas, proyectos, servicios y productos ambientales en el país. El evento busca reunir procesos ciudadanos, colectivos, ONGs, empresas, entidades oficiales, centros educativos, etc., de manera gratuita, dando a conocer su labor y aporte a la protección del ambiente. La Feria Ambiental ofrecerá actividades académicas, culturales y pedagógicas que harán de este, el evento más importante del país en materia ambiental.
¿Por qué y para qué La Feria Ambiental? La Feria Ambiental no tiene ninguna afiliación o distinción política, racial, cultural, social o de cualquier otro tipo. By. Loans that change lives. Urbanismo Táctico 3: Casos Latinoamericanos by Ciudad Emergente CEM. Publications. A Social Entrepreneur’s Quandary - Nonprofit or For-Profit? By 2004, his vision had broadened and he started an organization, Student Movement for Real Change, to encourage entrepreneurship in third world communities. Through this organization, he sent students to live with local families, hunt for water sources, farm alongside villagers and absorb the day-to-day nuances of life in a developing country with the goal of building social businesses along with the local residents.
Over the last two years, Mr. Garlick and his team have produced some 50 such “microenterprises” — including one that finances water projects in Kenya, one that sells charcoal and stoves in Rwanda and a cocoa nursery in Ghana. THE CHALLENGE By 2009, Mr. “Nothing about that scenario was sustainable,” Mr. THE BACKGROUND In 2007, Mr. “I thought that was going to make everything easier, but it didn’t,” said Mr. Adding to the pressure was the way Mr. Eventually, Mr. On the ground, ThinkImpact broadened its reach. THE OPTIONS After missing a couple of payrolls in 2010, Mr. Fellows. Country: Nicaragua Date of Election: 2014-01-23 Field of Work: Civic Engagement In Central America, the breakdown of law and order during the past twenty years has led to high levels of domestic violence against women and youth, but violence in the home has been treated as a taboo subject and dialogue has been difficult in these polarized societies....
Country: United Arab Emirates Date of Election: 2014-01-20 Field of Work: Human Rights Ahmad Edilbi is introducing a new way to empower, integrate and build social capital in scattered, immigrant populations that have been affected by a political crisis or natural disaster. Country: Jordan Organization: Rawan Media Field of Work: Learning/Education Rawan is working with students, teachers, families and communities to shift the traditional, rote-memorization based educational environment in the Levant region to an interactive and inductive ecosystem which enhances listening skills and imagination through interactive...
Country: Tunisia. Nace LINK para emprender, conoce esta nueva forma de Construir, Invertir y Conectar | Ahmsa. LINK para emprender es un programa de Ahmsa que propone crear espacios de interacción diseñados para potenciar ideas y emprendimientos a través de conexiones de valor transformadoras entre los diversos actores del emprendimiento. Para esta primera versión, que se realizará del 24 al 27 de junio de 2013, Ahmsa invita a emprendedores y emprendedores de la base con ideas o negocios en progreso a participar en un concurso de cuatro días en el que recibirán entrenamiento para potenciar sus emprendimientos. Al finalizar la semana los concursantes serán conectados con actores del emprendimiento que les permitirán conocer constantes oportunidades para seguir desarrollando su idea o negocio y los ganadores recibirán recursos para ser invertidos en su empresa.
Metodología del concurso El evento tendrá dos categorías: Fortalecimiento de empresas en marcha e ideas de negocio (15 participantes por cada uno). ¡Conéctate! Grants for projects.