Scrolling through the online world, I stumbled upon Fortune magazine covering women entrepreneurs under the age of 25. I was guessing most of the entrepreneurs would be in their early twenties with ideas of mobile apps, green energy discovery, or the next flash site sale. My mouth kind of gaped open a bit when I started reading about Tavi Gevinson. Continue reading
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Room to Read Founder Speaks at NYU Reynolds Speaker Series
For my social entrepreneur feature installment, I was fortunate enough to snag a seat for the NYU Reynolds Program, “Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century,” speaker series and listened to John Wood, founder of Room to Read. In 2000, Wood left a successful position at Microsoft to begin Room to Read, a non-profit organization providing […]
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NYU Social Entrepreneur Speaker Series Presents One Laptop Per Child Founder
“Two billion children in developing countries do not have or have very limited access to schooling,” Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, told a crowd of hopeful social entrepreneurs at NYU on Thursday. He is changing that alarming statistic with his non-profit organization. The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to […]
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