Loudsauce is a crowd funding platform that takes a different approach than other crowd funding platforms like Kickstarter, which funds creative projects. Loudsauce amplifies the message of organizations and causes through mainstream advertising campaigns, bringing the message to a much wider audience. Loudsauce’s vision is, “to transform the medium of advertising from one that primarily drives consumption to one of civic participation”.
At the 2011 B Corp Champions conference, Mal Warwick, Director of One World Futbol, participated in the Champions working group where it was decided that a letter from the B Community was needed to engage with the Occupy Wall Street movement. The purpose of the letter is to demonstrate that B Corps are better businesses that are a compelling alternative to the status quo and can be looked to as part of the solution to the economic injustice that the Occupy Wall Street movement seeks to address. The letter can be used by all the businesses in the B Corp community.
I'm blogging from the Social Venture Network fall gathering in Philadelphia, PA where I just attended a session that explored current and near-future trends in technology and how they relate to the social impact business world....
Singlebrook talks with Raviv Turner, Co-founder and CEO of Guerrillapps, the game developers behind the popular new Facebook game, Trash Tycoon. Through partnerships with big players in the green industry--TerraCycle, Carbonfund.org and Treehugger,Trash Tycoon combines great game mechanics with every day activities like sorting, recycling and upcycling trash. A month after its launch, Trash Tycoon is already seeing real world change through players’ increased involvement with TerraCycle and donations to Carbonfund.org. Trash Tycoon brings a breath of (ironically) fresh air to the world of gamification 1.0 with Turner’s approach: “let the fun drive.” -
We've selected this article as part of our "Blogs by B Corps" series. This article was featured in RSF Social Finance's, RSF Quarterly, Summer '11 edition. RSF Capital Management, a B Corp, is a subsidiary of RSF Social Finance. RSF Capital...
Frogtek is a social venture that helps micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets improve their profits via business software that runs on mobile phones. Frogtek works with smartphones because cellular technology is already much more ubiquitous than PCs and because smartphones in particular have become much more powerful and easier to use in recent years.
In the web development industry, where up to 91% of programmers are male, GirlDevelopIT is breaking new ground. There are currently seven chapters based out of major US cities, as well as Sydney, Australia and Ottawa, Canada. Chapters offer...
We recently upgraded one of our internal Rails projects to 3.1 and included the asset pipeline as part of the upgrade. Everything worked peachy in development, but when we'd compile and compress our JS assets, our JQPlot charting library would not...
Long-time Singlebrook client, Debt Compliance Services (DCS), was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal on September 7, 2011. A study done by consulting firm, DCS is referenced in, "Big Corporate Borrowers Leave Boards in the Dark",...