Sentences with phrase «innovative solutions to social problems»
UPDATE: In 2016, Marcus was elected as an Ashoka Fellow, «leading social entrepreneurs who we recognize to have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society.»
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«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked with preventing the sexual abuse of children.
They seek to solve the world's social and environmental problems through revenue - generating enterprises that champion innovative solutions.
While engaging my students from all over Europe on issues of social justice and civic engagement, an idea occurred to me: What if students from the Global South could convene in a similar manner and work together to come up with innovative solutions to the seemingly intractable problems that plague their nations?
It was one of the winners of this year's RSA Student Design Awards (you can see the other winners here,) an annual competition for students and recent graduates run by the RSA, a charity that's «committed to finding innovative, practical solutions to social problems.»
22 October 2013 Just over two weeks ago, the Skoll Foundation and Huffington Post launched the «Skoll Social Entrepreneurs» Challenge,» a global fundraising effort for innovative enterprises like Forest Trends that seek to promote sustainable solutions to the world's problems.
Over four months, teams identify a discrete law - related social justice problem and develop a Project of Worth: an implementable solution to that problem combining innovative business principles with public interest goals to affect change and create value.