Two awards announced their results recently: the New Statesman Upstarts Awards for social entrepreneurs and enterprises in the UK. Winners here include Chipmunka Publishing, Traidcraft and Cornerstone.
Also announced a week ago or so were the Ashoka/Changemakers Community Innovation Award Winners. These are a pretty inspiring bunch too, including a second-hand tools project in South Africa, an anti-child prostitution campaign in Taiwan, and a "school to school" project in India which forms long-term strategic alliance between rich urban schools and poor rural ones.
Thank you for mentioning chipmunkapublishing's victory in the social entrepreneurship awards of 2005. How can i help the global ideas forum ?
Posted by: jasonpegler | December 07, 2005 at 03:52 PM
No probs, Jason. I've come across Chipmunka's work a few times. As well as running the Global Ideas Bank (and this associated blog), I work at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. It would be great to get you in to speak to our students about how you developed Chipmunka, how you overcame obstacles and so on.
I'm sure that there are some cross-linkage things we could do web-wise too. The GIB gets a fair amount of traffic, and we're always up for supporting organisations with a similar ethos.
Posted by: Nick Temple | December 08, 2005 at 11:04 PM