Resistance Mounts to Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship; Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
June 10, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- A new resistance to microfinance and the social-entrepreneurship approach to solving social problems has emerged at the Grantmakers Without Borders conference in San Francisco, according to the blog Adin Miller Consulting.
- Dan Palotta, musing about his time spent mowing neighbors’ lawns and manning a paper route, wonders whether childhood has ceased to be a time for learning entrepreneurial skills— and explores some recent nonprofit efforts to reverse that trend — on his Harvard Business Review blog.
- The second iteration at Chase Community Giving has begun. In the competition — which is for charities with annual budgets of $1-million or less — Facebook users will vote to determine which 200 organizations will share $5-million in prize money. This time around organizations will be able to add photos and videos to their profiles, which groups can start working on now. Voting runs June 15-July 12.
