Sidney | March 2, 2009
Are campaigns against major world poverty and health issues disproportionately focused on non-U.S. soil? For example, such efforts as: the One Campaign (Poverty and AIDS); the Base of the Pyramid Protocol efforts (Poverty); Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Campaign (Inequality); and the NICE Campaign (Cancer), to name a few, address issues in regions outside of the [...]
Sidney | March 1, 2009
In 1998, C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart introduced an idea to target over four billion people globally who make less than $1,500 US annually, known as the Base of the Pyramid(BoP), to co-develop a culturally-competent, commercial model with large multinational corporations that could improve and sustain lives in BoP communities. The model was further [...]
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.
