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15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture…

Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture…
 
by Omar Aysha

Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo

Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. …
 
by Omar Aysha

Creating a Culture of Hacking for Social Good…

Sana Odeh of Faculty Liaison for Global Programs of Computer Science at New York University and Affiliated Faculty…
 
by Kamel Al-Asmar

Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka…

Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with…
 
by Maya Rahal

Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll…

Last week, I attended the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, a real celebration of change…
 
by Reem Khouri

Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup…

“The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought…
 
by Omar Aysha

Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition Calls…

Young entrepreneurs with an idea for changing the world may want to apply to Zeitgeist Young Minds, a competition…
 
by Maya Rahal

Want to Rent out That Spare Room? The Growing…

The founders of Internet startup Airbnb were accustomed to rejection. Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk…
 
by Knowledge at Wharton

Changing the World Isn't Easy: Advice for Social…

Inclusive capitalism, disruptive innovations, triple bottom line, scalability… My head is abuzz with catchy…
 
by Hala Hanna

Volunteer Platform Nakhweh Launches Campaign…

Aspiring social entrepreneurs in Jordan now have another reason to push their ideas out the door. Nonprofit Nakhweh,…
 
by Nina Curley

Social Startups See Surprise Wins at SME Advisors…

In a domain where more established players typically take home the awards, two young socially-oriented startups…
 
by Nina Curley

Can a Syrian Internship Initiative Solve Youth…

The issue dominating every conversation on the table in the Middle East today is omnipresent enough to have a…
 
by Nina Curley

Volunteer Portal Nakhweh Launches New Platform…

Today, it’s even easier to get free labor at your startup. Nakhweh, a Jordanian volunteer-matching portal, just…
 
by Nina Curley
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October
NYUAD International Hackathon…
The NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World 2011 is launching this fall, from…
 
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A Call to Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

As the recent TEDxBeirut event aimed to bring us ‘From Limitation to Inspiration,’ it followed the TED mandate…
 
by Fernande van Tets
03
October
Social Venture Meetup
AltCity is hosting an event focused on social entrepreneurship and GEW next Monday in Beirut. When:…
 
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Building a Social Venture: Hamzet Wasel

Jordan faces an increasing divide between its capital, Amman, and its outlying cities, and, within Amman, fragmentation…
 
by Nina Curley
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