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The Recommender: Arianna Huffington, Mark Frauenfelder, And More On What They're Loving This Month

BY Fast Company Staff | 11-21-2011 | 1:22 PM | MAGAZINE

From reading "Huckleberry Finn" to watching "Sherlock Holmes," here are our recommendations this month.READ MORE›

Innovation Agents - Sasha Dichter, Chief Innovation Officer, Acumen Fund

BY Lydia Dishman | 08-26-2011 | 3:12 PM | ETHONOMICS

Sasha Dichter wants you to know that social impact investing is anything but a crock. He talks to Fast Company about making a difference for global social good.READ MORE›

How GE Is Changing Business Through Shared Value

BY Leslie R. Crutchfield, John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer | 03-30-2011 | 10:42 AM | ETHONOMICS

In this excerpt from their new book, "Do More Than Give," authors Leslie R. Crutchfield, John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer about companies like GE and Unilever that improve the communities they do business in--while making a profit.READ MORE›

Acumen Fund Co-Invests $2.2 Million in Ugandan Cotton Ginnery

BY Jenara Nerenberg | 01-14-2011 | 4:27 AM | ETHONOMICS

The non-profit social venture assists the Gulu Agricultural Development Company, and aims to "provide more than just capital" as region hopes to recover from years of civil war.READ MORE›

Looking for a Partner: Must be Willing to Commit

BY Alice Korngold | 09-22-2010 | 3:20 AM | ETHONOMICS

Put a bunch of executives from different companies in a room to hatch plans, write checks, and plot how to move markets, and it’s a federal crime. Add some foundations, NGOs, and myriad worthy causes, and you’ve got the Clinton ...READ MORE›

Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid

BY Seth Godin | 09-09-2010 | 10:58 AM | ETHONOMICS

A third of the world's population earns $2.50 or less a day. This disparity takes my breath away, but there's a flip side to it: That's a market of more than five billion dollars a day. Add the next segment ($5 a day), and you see that the poorest people in the world spend more than ten billion dollars to live their lives.READ MORE›

How Edesia Will Help Feed One Billion Hungry: One Child at a Time

BY Alice Korngold | 06-09-2010 | 6:44 AM | INNOVATION

“A billion people endure and suffer the irreversible effects of hunger and malnutrition,” Navyn Salem told me. Salem is the Founder and Executive Director of Edesia, a new nonprofit manufacturing company that produces life-saving ...READ MORE›