TOPIC: INNOVATION (41)

Square

https://squareup.com

Square offers a variety of products to assist you with your business. Square Register, an iPad app, is the simplest way to accept credit card payments, and has all the features you need to create an elegant experience at your counter. Square Card Reader accepts credit card payments on your Android, iPhone or iPad. Pay with Square is an app for iPhone and Android that links your credit card to your business of choice and let's you pay via the app. 

 

Social Capital Markets

http://socialcapitalmarkets.net

A growing market for investing in social solutions. Watch conversations from our SOCAP events on shaping this new market.

Innovation.org

http://www.innovation.org

Innovation.org, a project of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is a place to discuss and learn about pharmaceutical innovation. 
We seek to: provide space for an exchange of ideas about pharmaceutical innovation; raise awareness of the critical issues facing pharmaceutical innovation; communicate essential information about the nature of pharmaceutical discovery, the challenges it faces, the value it provides, and the future promise it holds.

E-nabling The Future

http://enablingthefuture.org

E-NABLE is a growing group of over 800 members who have come together from all over the World to help create and design 3D Printed assistive hand devices for those in need.

Wild Gift

http://wildgift.org

What do social entrepreneurs need to create positive change? Wild Gift combines astute business mentoring with a collective wilderness experience that aligns values, develops leadership skills, and creates bonds with other change-makers.

Good for Nothing

http://www.goodfornothing.com

Good for Nothing is a community of thinkers, do-ers, makers and tinkerers applying their skills and energy to accelerating the work of cause led innovators and change makers; it's about diverse groups of people collaborating together, working in new, faster, fun and better ways by supporting ideas and people that are leading the way to what a flourishing 21st century society might look like.

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Good For Nothing, Thinkers, Innovation

Youth Challenge International (YCI)

http://www.yci.org

Youth Challenge International is a leading global youth development organization that promotes youth innovation to drive positive change. YCI engages youth in creating solutions to the challenges they face, incorporating youth development, volunteerism, partnership, and equity into all that we do. YCI's volunteer projects are currently located in Tanzania, Ghana, Guyana, Costa Rica and Guatemala

The Adventure Project

http://theadventureproject.org

The Adventure Project is a non-profit organization established to increase investments in positive social enterprises around the world. Founded in 2010 by Becky Straw & Jody Landers, who met while traveling through Liberia, West Africa. They have joined forces to raise awareness and funds to support the world’s most-effective social ventures.

Startup Weekend

http://startupweekend.org

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!
 

GE

http://www.ge.com

GE works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and helping to cure the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works.

Collaborative Fund

http://collaborativefund.com/#

Collaborative aims to be the leading source of capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. The fund focuses on two themes: the increasing importance of values as they relate to the decisions we make about who we work for, what we buy, and how we spend our time; and the shift from an economy based on hyper-consumption to one based on Collaborative Consumption. These two forces present a significant opportunity for new technologies, products, and services to reinvent how we do business and transform our daily lives.