Posts Tagged ‘social entrepreneurs’
Ashoka’s two new fellows…
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Two new Ashoka Fellowship were awarded last night to two of Ireland’s leading social entrepreneurs, Steve Collins from Valid Nutrition, and Mary Nally, from Third Age Ireland.
Steve Collins and his team in Valid Nutrition have pioneered a new model for treating malnutrition across the developing world. Based in the countries in need, Valid Nutrition have [...]
Social Entrepreneurs At Large
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Over at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland this week, the 2009 batch of awardees were announced.
31 innovators were given pride of place at the Annual SEI Awards, which was attended by the President Mary McAleese. They are once again some amazing people, leading amazing, necessary and innovative projects. If you have a few minutes to space, I recommend [...]
New Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Guinness’ has a long history of philanthropy in Ireland, and to mark the 250th Anniversary they are creating a new fund to support social entrepreneurs in Ireland. Sign your name to the 250th Anniversary poster in your local pub. (You don’t need to buy a pint to do so, but you do need to be [...]
Tell me more!
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Responding to the question, ‘Tell me one thing you plan to do with your one wild and precious life’. Taken at the Shine Unconference in London on May 15th/ 16th.
Everyone a Changemaker.
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Ashoka Ireland, a support organisation for social enterpreneurs, announced a new Irish Awardee, David Egan from Red Branch at their annual symposium on Monday. Hosted by Prime Time’s Mark Little, the event brought together leading social entrepreneurs and supporters.
Red Branch aims to empower children, young people, parents and schools to make healthy lifestyle choices, including nutritional, [...]
One Wild Life- Available for pre-order.
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‘One Wild Life’ is now available for pre-order on Amazon and from The Collins Press.
On the shelves in April. How very exciting!
‘Good Fellows’ in The Irish Times.
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There was some good talk in the Irish Times magazine this weekend, with the publication of feature on social entrepreneurship. Includes were profiles of Ireland’s three Ashoka fellows: Caroline Cunningham, Tara Cunningham and David Egan.
Egan is the most recent Ashoka fellow to be appointed in Ireland, for his work with RedBranch, an innovative organisation that [...]
** Coming Soon**
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I am so delighted to announce that ‘One Wild Life’ will be coming to a shelf near you soon.
It is already available for pre-order from the publishers, The Collins Press, here
More details soon!