Kirsten Spainhower
Blogging about Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Kirsten works with the Innovation Practice on the Development Marketplace. She has a Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Masters in Forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her technical interests include community based natural resource management, eco-agriculture, agroforestry, communications and Monitoring and Evaluation. Kirsten enjoys thinking about patterns in nature and studying farming systems from around the world.
Blogging on: Development Marketplace
- 01/05/13 'Tata Social Enterprise Challenge' to Support India's Best and Brightest
- 12/19/12 Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities & Challenges in MENA: Presentations from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine
- 11/05/12 BBC: Social Minded Business trying to Grow in Egypt
- 09/17/12 Can Social Enterprise Contribute to Inclusive Growth in Middle East & North Africa?
- 12/06/11 GSBI Application Opens Today!
- 10/05/11 A $450 house for only $5 a month – no interest paid.
- 06/14/11 A Locally Based Model Goes Global
- 06/03/11 Hybrid Value Chains – a Method for Solving Grand Challenges in Development?
- 05/04/11 Development Marketplace in India supports the vision and ‘can-do’ spirit of social entrepreneurs
- 04/07/11 Day One: The 2011 India Development Marketplace is underway!
- 12/13/10 Calling All Development Marketplace Winners and Finalists!
- 11/16/10 Manav Seva Sansthan wins STAR Impact Award
- 11/08/10 This project really is “for the birds” - Development Marketplace projects protects the Giant Ibis
- 11/01/10 New Opportunities: Social Enterprise Boot Camp & Echoing Green Fellowship
- 10/21/10 Chocolate for Development
- 09/29/10 The iPod for Development
- 09/08/10 Hero Rats Are Making News Around the World!
- 08/23/10 Finding Beauty in Nepal's Third Gender
- 05/10/10 BRAC: A Laboratory for Systemic Solutions
- 03/25/10 Innovation as a response to scarcity
Blogging on: Development Marketplace