Link Roll Call!

Links to things we talked about tonight: 

• Business Fights Poverty-- international network for professionals passionate about fighting world poverty through good business.
  
• Inspiris-- UK consulting firm to use business to fight poverty. (Alexis consults for them)
• World Bank Institute-- the Bank Group’s principal provider of learning activitie (Alexis works for them!) 
• Echo Ditto-- leveraging social media and connecting technologies as a vehicle for affecting positive change around the world. (Sophie used to work for them!) 
• Frontier Strategy Group-- enhancing for-profit companies' effectiveness in emerging markets (Sopie works for them right now!) 
• NextBillion.net-- online platform to explore connections between development and enterprise. 
• Design for Social Entrepreneurship-- advanced studio at the Rhode Island School of Design exploring the role of designers in social entrepreneurship. (developed and taught by me) There's a blog here too
• IDEO- our favorite design consultancy :-) 
• Design that Matters-- (DtM) developing products addressing basic needs in developing countries. (I used to work here!) 
• Pecha Kucha- a new form of social power pointing. 
• John Griffin Consulting- the consulting group that re-strategizes organizations. (link needed)