The fourth episode of the BBC World News series on social entrepreneurs features the heroic rats of Apopo, founded by 2009 Skoll social entrepreneur Bart Weetjens.  These HeroRats are trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis using their sense of smell.  The 8-part series, called Alvin’s Guide to Good Business, is looking at social entrepreneurs doing [...]

Nick Kristof of the New York Times wrote a column this week about a child he’s sponsored in the Dominican Republic under a a program called Plan USA.  He points out that, whenever he writes on poverty, he gets lots of questions from people about how they can help.  In this column, he mentions (and [...]