Social Entrepreneurship

The internet is an interesting in which you can start in one place and end up in another.  I was searching for a topic to post in this blog and went from one thing to another until I found something of interest.

That when I cam upon Hopeful Staffing.  This is a social entrepreneurship organization.  For those of you who do not know what that is it is the combination of business beliefs with non profits in which you better humanity through a self sustaining program that can even make a profit, neat huh?

Pretty much what this organization is a staffing agency for the homeless.  I like social entrepreneurship because it takes creative thinking to help someone with out having to rely on someone else for funding when it comes to social programs.

Well here is a link to a short article on Hopeful Staffing.

http://socialinnovation.se/en/hopeful-staffing/

By the way this ties in to public health because public health in one description is just simply the bettering of everybody plus many programs are funded by organizations or/and the government.  I would love to see some social entrepreneurship in public health.

Cheers!

Sustainability

Today I was reading my many sources of articles and found this interesting article on up cycling materials.  This is just a rewording of taking garbage and recycling it into something of greater value.  Usually I am disappointed and mentally compare it to something a child would do in elementary, or it is something that requires a great deal of high tech capital to be able to perform.

This time however I was very impressed.  I know this is not quite the "public health" topic that is usually posted.  But I really like sustainability and the clever ways capitalism allows people to be ingenious to make money and sometimes help the world out.


Here is an interesting article cited in the above upper link with some impressive wear.

http://www.reclaimtowear.com/2012/topshop-reclaim-to-wear/