Echoing Green Announces Semifinalists

Published January 12, 2009 @ 10:31AM PT

Hippo Water Roller in action

Echoing Green is a fellowship for social entrepreneurship startups that provides seed funding, mentorship, and community to social innovatiors. Seeing as how I follow social entrepeneurship like many follow sports, my favorite part of their year is when they announce the some 300 semi-finalists (culled from over 1,200 applicants) who have the chance to move on to the finalist round. Googling organizations that made the cut is a great way to learn about new social innovations.

A few on the list are orgs I've followed for some time, and worth checking out:

Atlas Corps: Atlas Service Corps provides social change agents from the developing world the chance to spend a year interning with development organizations in the United States, in the process creating a more integrated global citizen sector.

All Day Buffet: Describing themselves as like a "record label," in that they find talent, but then instead of making CDs, they help that talent create social good. Really cool project in the "alternative to venture funding" vein.

love.futbol: A great project that builds soccer pitches around the world to keep kids safe and engaged in their communities and education. I met the founder Drew at SoCap08 and he's a baller for sure.

Student Movement for Real Change: I met Student Movement for Real Change through my work with the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement, and can vouch for the quality and creativity of the experiences through which they teach undergrads to be social change agents. Definitely part of the "Global Engagement Education" Trend.

The Extraordinaries: One of the groups that's working hardest to figure out how to use mobile technology to amplify civic engagement and volunteerism, and a group to keep your eye on in 2009. Mentioned in the "Online Action Platform" Trend post.

Hippo Water Roller: One of my favorite organizations built around a really simple easy solution to a serious problem. Long story short, the idea is that if water is heavy, and carrying heavy water on one's head has negative health consequences, why not design a rolly water carrier that takes away those consequences? Love it.

Read the full list here.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.