Sidney | February 24, 2009
Dan Bassill served as a Montgomery Ward volunteer in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois for 17 years before leaving the company to devote full time efforts to the Cabrini-Green Tutor/Mentor program. Two years later Bassill formed Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) with the help of six other volunteers. Cabrini Connections expanded the [...]
Sidney | February 24, 2009
It is not often that I get the chance to attend a free one-day meeting that offers great networking opportunities and knowledge-packed presentations. On Friday, I attended the Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship Summit at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The summit was a student-organized event lead by [...]
Social Innovation ChatterThis blog covers the issues of our world community and the people whose innovative ideas will bring about sustainable solutions for the good of all. The word “Uplift” is used as a metaphor for “sustainable” social change. Uplift was borrowed from the ideology of “racial uplift” espoused by twentieth century civil rights leaders that sought new approaches to social change in their pursuit of racial equality. Similarly, today's innovators seek new approaches to social change that will uplift the human race.
