Editor's Note: This article, sent to me kindness of my Irish storytelling niece, Clare, is pretty amazing. My reaction after reading it was "hmmm, here I am talking about social business, and here's this 18 year old kid from Belfast actually doing it! A deep bow to Cameron Stewart and all the wild eyed optimists of the world who haven't been convinced "it can't be done!" [more]

By Kevin Maney
from USAtoday.com - Money - Posted on 3/10/2004
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2004-03-10-money_x.htm

Editor's Note: : I guess this really isn't a success story, per se, but this month's article is an excerpt from Bill Gate's famous commencement address at Harvard in 2007. I guess I view the success in two way that reflect this month's issue of the business of good website: 1. Bill Gates is the penultimate non-traditional, engaged philanthropist. 2. His words are those of a "searcher," not a planner. And that in fact is what I believe we need to be successful in battling global problems - a highly successful billionaire who not only wants to engage but knows he doesn't have the answers. For whatever else we may think of Microsoft or Mr. Gates, this article provides great formulas for our work. [more]

I've come to believe that while there are very complex challenges in my life, complex solutions don't work. And if you've ever golfed, you know it's a complex game. The great ideas (and lives) I've studied apply simple, if difficult to execute, principles to complex issues. [more]

By Muhammad Yunis
from The Christian Science Monitor Feb 2008 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0215/p09s01-coop.html

By Jessica Jackley Flannery

From The Focus online Feb 2008
http://www.ezifocus.com/content/thefocus/issue/welcome.php

By Gerald Skoch

From Stanford Social Innovation Review; Fall 2008
By: William Foster
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Editor's Note: International Partners in Mission (IPM) works across borders of faith and culture on behalf of children, women, and youth to create partnerships that build justice, peace, and hope. Their geographic focal areas for support include: the Indian Sub-Continent, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA. IPM currently supports more than 70 projects in 25 countries around the world. The letter below, written by IPM's Executive Director, Joe Cistone, provides close insight into the cost of the unrest in Kenya. I personalizes it for me, and perhaps for you, in a way no news article can. Joe has been to Nairobi since this letter to assure our projects' health during the crisis and to visit Were's (pronounced "way-ray") family. [more]