The Daily Entrepreneur: Investing Guidelines and Good News

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Published March 11, 2009 @ 10:14PM PT

A diverse an interesting array of stories to day - from Fair Trade to standards to technology collaboration:

New Social Investing Guidelines from the Grameen Foundation: Idealist.org writes up a new tool to help people think about how to evaluate their microfinance investments. I like that we're starting to think in terms of tools for average citizen social change agents.

InSTEDD: Enabling Collaboration in Third World Countries: Technology for the developing world shop InSTEDD gets a great write up on ReadWriteWeb. Glad to see them getting the attention they deserve.

TransFair USA Increases their Product Offerings: Fellow Change.org blogger Zarah recaps all the excellent and exciting news in the Fair Trade world from the last few weeks - including Cadbury's big shift..

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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.