Typical Tuesday with Acumen Fund's James Wu
Our Typical Tuesday series is designed to give you a window into what real social innovators’ work actually looks like. Here, we ask Acumen Fund's James Wu to describe a typical Tuesday in his own words.
Name: James Wu
City: London, United Kingdom. Sometimes New York. Though my heart is in Brooklyn.
Twitter: @bunkywu
February 28, 2012 - 4:39pm
Social Impact Jobs
It’s intern time. With each passing day, I am receiving more and more inquiries from bright students seeking interesting summer positions. While we don’t have many openings here at Echoing Green, here are three great intern or associate programs that recently crossed my desk:
IDEO.org seeks a part-time fundraising assistant and HCD Connect summer intern.
February 28, 2012 - 12:03pm
Game-Changing Retreat in South Africa
The recent Echoing Green Fellowship regional retreat in South Africa was game-changing. We went in with the intention of building community, showcasing innovation and developing infrastructure to support social entrepreneurs in Africa. What actually happened was so much more.
The Fellows came away renewed and reenergized in their missions, and the staff came home with the understanding of true potential, not only within our Fellows, but in the generations of Fellows to come from the continent.
February 27, 2012 - 10:57am
Emotion as a Common Language
2008 Echoing Green Fellow Elizabeth Scharpf was interning for the World Bank in Mozambique when she overheard some colleagues complaining that many of their staff were missing work because they were menstruating. She did a little digging and learned that 18 percent of school-age girls in Rwanda, as an example, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive. With a little more research, Elizabeth discovered that indigenous materials could be used to manufacture pads.
February 23, 2012 - 3:32pm
The Buzz 2-10-12
Our quick read on the top tweets, news, and buzz circulating in the field of changemaking this past week. Tell us, what's got you talking? And what do you want to be talking about?
February 13, 2012 - 12:09pm
Women: Sit at the Table and Create the Discourse
“Because the stories we tell determine what we think about what happens, which determines which happens next.” – Katie Orenstein
February 8, 2012 - 5:55pm
The Buzz 2-3-12
Our quick read on the top tweets, news, and buzz circulating in the field of changemaking this past week. Tell us, what's got you talking? And what do you want to be talking about?
February 6, 2012 - 1:11am
A Voice for Those Without One
2009 Echoing Green Fellow Esra'a Al Shafei launched Mideast Youth which uses social web tools to connect youth from the Middle East and North Africa online to promote human rights, religious freedom, tolerance, and free speech.
In a fantastic interview on Forbes.com, Esra'a commented:
February 4, 2012 - 8:10am
The 2012 Echoing Green Semifinalists
There are 3,508 reasons why we have great hope for a better world. This is the number of applications Echoing Green received for our 2012 Fellowships. We congratulate every single applicant for taking on the world's biggest problems with their bold, innovative solutions.
February 2, 2012 - 9:11am
Drones for Human Rights
Mark Hanis, 2006 Echoing Green Fellow and founder of the Genocide Intervention Network, has co-written an op-ed in the New York Times that asks if drone or UAV surveillance could help document state repression in Syria. He writes:
January 31, 2012 - 1:51pm
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