Binding Power: Volunteers Bring Us Small Steps Closer to Sustainability

In the last update I mentioned the desire to create some income generating project to help support the families and over the past few weeks, a small group of determined volunteers has been forming to make sure this project comes to fruition.

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Spare Change: Internet Homeless Social Entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneurship has a home on many websites on the web, so why are entrepreneurs still sleeping outside? If we really believe they have a role to play in changing development and reforming how we conceptualize philanthropy, then we have to respond to the dangers of being internet homeless. Can you spare some change? I [...]

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Paper Dreams

Still don’t believe you have what it takes to create change? Well to help quench the doubt, see if you can track the evolution of one volunteer’s belief she could contribute. The Question: What would happen if you gave kids living in poverty the ability to blog to the world? That’s exactly what Kristina Rosinsky [...]

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Splintering Your Brand: ‘Man in the Mirror’

In the other Splintering Your Brand posts I’ve tried to show how becoming separated from your cause hurts your message. Whether it’s because of implementing too little of you in your message or allowing your overcommitment to undermine your activity, I hope you were able to pull something from my experiences. Your goal is to [...]

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Over Entertained & Under Challenged

Would you consider you or your community over entertained and/or under challenged? When you finish reading, share your thoughts and enjoy the social entrepreneurship video from the Skoll Foundation. Blame it on the ubiquity of advertising that has made every inch of public space available for purchase. Blame it on being submerged in a tourism [...]

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Still Shedding

Thank all of you who have been supporting us. I want to let you know what’s going on now and what to expect from In Search of Sanuk in the future. Things are great, but there’s so much work to do. Join in! The Community is Growing – Through the internet, travel, and your help [...]

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