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December 21, 2010
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Featured Social Entrepreneurship Blogs:

Aid Watch

Awakening Castalia

Banking on the Poor – Daniel Kreps

CIPE Development

Citizen Effect

David Roodman

Dowser

Next Billion

Sasha Dichter

Social Earth

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Triple Pundit

2011 Acumen Fund Fellows Blogs:

Bavidra Mohan (Imagine Something Different) is working in Shenzen, China with D.Light, which manufactures and sells solar lights to replace kerosene

Benje Williams (The Fragments that Remain) is working at Pharmagen, providing low-cost water, in Lahore, Pakistan

Brenda Williams (GlobalLink Consulting) is in Hyderabad, India, helping get safe, affordable water to Indian villages

Chika Fujita (Feel the Wind, Live Like the Wind) is in Mumbai, India, supporting the growth of the Dial 1298 ambulance service across India

Khuram Hussain (The Healthy Archer) is working with Ecotact in Nairobi, Kenya to help make sanitation sexy

Mario Ferro (Imagine there is no…) is spending the year with Husk Power in Bihar, India, helping get affordable power to remote villages

Shane Heywood is in Kitale, Kenya, helping Western Seeds get high-yield hybrid maize to smallholder farmers

Wendy Wallace (Adventures of Wendy) is working with Lifespring Hospitals helping bring high-quality, low-cost maternal care to thousands (and we hope eventually, millions)

Featured Organizations:

Acumen Fund

African Leadership Academy

Akilah Institute

Ansaar Management Company

Bridge International

Catapult Design

Kiva

Samasource

Save Together

Vittana

Other Favorites:

Nicholas Kristof

Paul Graham

Seth Godin

We’re not quite done adding our favorite blogs and organizations but please let us know if we’re missing something interesting! Comment below or email RP: RisingPyramid@gmail.com

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