Once again Change Fusion Nepal with the support of Surya Nepal is organizing the Surya Nepal Asha Social Entrepreneurship Award (SNASEA). Initiatives like the ones promoted by Change Fusion Nepal and Surya Nepal are essential to offer a launch pad for those innovators with marketable ideas. At the same time, I would love to see similar initiatives genuinely promoting the best social innovations

This Saturday 8th March is International Women’s Day and this will be used as a platform for lobbying for a stand alone goal for gender equality. Please join VSO in taking action on this campaign. www.vso.org.uk/WiP/take-action

Bringing new grocery stores to underserved communities, i.e. "food deserts," may not achieve all that food justice advocates want. Mark Winne brings his 25 years of working and living in a food desert to bear on the question, and reaches some surprising conclusions.