Millennial Trains Project: This isn't your father's road trip Project founder and CEO Patrick Dowd's philosophy is, "The future is ours to shape, and new frontiers await." (Photo: Millennial Trains Project) Ten cities, 10 days, 20 bright young minds on a transcontinental train trip sharing ideas for solving real-world problems — that’s the concept behind The Millennial Trains Project, a sort of mobile think tank that brings together socially minded entrepreneurs to address the challenges of the present and future. Departing Aug. 8 from San Francisco, the train will stop in Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Washington on its journey of discovery. Patrick Dowd, the project’s founder and CEO, explains its genesis and objectives. MNN: Explain the idea behind, and the mission of, The Millennial Trains Project. Dowd: The idea comes from India, where I helped lead a similar trains project, the Jagriti Yatra, as a Fulbright scholar. The process of building the project involved building a team and coalition of supporting organizations.
Starscamp The Path Exercise (a downloadable tool) - Human Workplace Like an ace, I spilled hot tea on my laptop as I sat in my friend Molly’s kitchen chatting away and talking about business and people. “Oh shiz,” I said, and Molly said “Turn it over!” but I was too slow, and strangely enough my early training kicked in enough so that I couldn’t bring myself to dump tea water onto Molly’s dining-room table, even as I saw the laptop die in front of me. Human Workplace Reinvention Roadmap Path Exercise Jan 2013 It’s your path. Have fun with the Path exercise. My point is that there are these threads and strains from our early life that really want to join back together sometimes, and completing this Path exercise can get us in touch with some of them. I gave one to my ten-year-old son, but he made it into a battle map for Star Wars clone troopers.
Social Performance At Kiva, we want to create good in the world. A lot of good. One way that we try to maximize the good created through Kiva is by partnering with organizations that go above and beyond to generate positive outcomes for the communities they serve. This is called social performance. Different organizations have different social performance strengths. The badges were developed through careful research into best practices across the microfinance industry, and what Kiva has learned about facilitating positive outcomes for borrowers. We know that every member of the Kiva community wants to maximize the impact they have when making a loan. The Kiva Social Performance Badges: Client Voice These Field Partners use feedback from the people they serve and adapt their business practices and product offerings to meet their needs. Innovation These Field Partners embrace technology and innovation to better address the needs of the people they serve.
7 social business incubators helping startups succeed Why do startups need hands-on assistance to make progress? Besides a lack of adequate funding, there are other issues holding promising social sector organizations from achieving their potential: lack of clear strategies and skilled staff, weak organizational structures, inadequate systems and processes. Hence, the incubation process is one of the most effective mechanisms to develop and launch new ventures. This Forbes article for example gives you 8 reasons to skip business school and go through the grind at an incubator instead. Incubators enable the exchange of ideas and technologies between entrepreneurs, who learn the importance of sharing the same space and form partnerships. This environment provides emerging companies with mentoring, training, infrastructure, working space, neighbors committed to innovation, support services and more by lower cost than market factors. 1) Who: CIIE – Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship 2) Who: Dasra 3) Who: Deshpande Foundation
CAPLAB | Una década formando capital humano y productivo. How to Reduce Stress: 10 Relaxation Techniques To Reduce Stress On-the-Spot By Jeannette MoningerWebMD Feature Relax. You deserve it, it's good for you, and it takes less time than you think. You don't need a spa weekend or a retreat. Each of these stress-relieving tips can get you from OMG to om in less than 15 minutes. 1. A few minutes of practice per day can help ease anxiety. It's simple. 2. Take a 5-minute break and focus on your breathing. “Deep breathing counters the effects of stress by slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure,” psychologist Judith Tutin, PhD, says. 3. Slow down. “Take 5 minutes and focus on only one behavior with awareness,” Tutin says. When you spend time in the moment and focus on your senses, you should feel less tense. 4. Your social network is one of your best tools for handling stress. 5. Mentally scan your body to get a sense of how stress affects it each day.
Our Mission – Model | Endeavor Global High-Impact Entrepreneurs create thriving companies that employ hundreds, even thousands of people, and generate millions in wages and revenues. And they have the power to inspire countless others as leading role models. Together, these entrepreneurs hold the key to sustained economic growth in emerging markets. High-Impact Entrepreneurs dream of becoming the next great success story, but having launched in emerging countries, face considerable barriers to growth: — Cost of Failure — Lack of role models — Limited Management expertise — Lack of contacts or mentors — Lack of trust — Limited access to smart capital Endeavor helps High-Impact Entrepreneurs unleash their potential by providing an unrivaled network of seasoned business leaders, who provide the key ingredients to entrepreneurial success: Before Endeavor the word entrepreneurship was not in the dictionary in Portuguese or Arabic.
Turn a Business Idea into a Validated Business Model in 8 Weeks The Habits Of Supremely Happy People Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us. In his 2004 Ted Talk, Seligman describes three different kinds of happy lives: The pleasant life, in which you fill your life with as many pleasures as you can, the life of engagement, where you find a life in your work, parenting, love and leisure and the meaningful life, which “consists of knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you are.” After exploring what accounts for ultimate satisfaction, Seligman says he was surprised. The pursuit of pleasure, research determined, has hardly any contribution to a lasting fulfillment. Instead, pleasure is “the whipped cream and the cherry” that adds a certain sweetness to satisfactory lives founded by the simultaneous pursuit of meaning and engagement. They smile when they mean it. They unplug.