Wall Street Journal covers Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream
Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Co., discusses a new twist on Samuel Adam’s philanthropy program, Brewing the American Dream, to provide loans and resources to small brewers nationwide for help with start-up costs. Read more in the Wall Street Journal....eBay Inc. Launches The Opportunity Project
eBay Inc. launched The Opportunity Project, a global social innovation initiative designed to support and help scale market-based approaches to providing economic opportunity in vulnerable, impoverished communities. Powered by the eBay Foundation, The Opportunity...“Power of Public/Private Collaboration” – Feldman at StartingBloc
Mark Feldman led an interactive session on the “Power of Public/Private Collaboration” at Boston’s Institute for Social Innovation, the 5-day opening gathering of the StartingBloc Fellowship at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Business, where fellows learn about social...Celebrating Volunteerism in Boston
As a member of the Boston Cares board of directors I was thrilled to celebrate the organization’s 20th Anniversary last week at Fenway Park. Joined by Boston’s Mayor Menino, Massachussetts Governor Patick, and hundreds of volunteer award winners and guests, we toasted the past and announced an ambitious agenda for the future.
Under the leadership of Executive Director Patrice Keegan and Board Chair Howard Kogan, the staff created and filled over 70,ooo hours of opportunity for Bostonians to take action in 2010 alone. And take action they did; some 25,000 people volunteered and helped hundreds of Boston nonprofits achieve their critical social and educational missions.