At the #SXSWEDU 2026 session "Accidental Entrepreneurs: Building Products & Spilling Tea", two #entrepreneurs shared a refreshingly honest look at what happens after you validate an idea.

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Student Impact Challenge SXSW EDU 2026 Schedule | The Student Impact Challenge celebrates student achievement and agency in solving the most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges by providing a platform for high school students to showcase their innovative ideas. Selected finalists will pitch their idea in front of a panel of judges and live audience. 2026 Finalists: Futr // Mars, Pennsylvania H2Know // Lafayette, Colorado Immunova AI // Singapore PERCH // San Francisco, California Shared Skies Initiative // Dallas, Texa...

Congratulations to the six finalists who showcased their student-led projects at #SXSWEDU 2026 Student Impact Challenge. Initiatives ranged from providing sustainable energy solutions to workforce pathways for immigrants to early cancer detection.

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Grow or Let Go? Navigating M&A in Education SXSW EDU 2026 Schedule | As the education sector faces mounting pressure to scale impact, adapt to change, and align resources, mergers and acquisitions are becoming critical tools for systems-level transformation. Yet behind every deal lies a complex story of leadership, culture, and mission. This candid conversation will feature lessons learned from prominent organizations that have navigated and supported M&A—what drives these decisions, what happens behind the scenes, and how philanthropy can better support o...

Grow or Let Go? This #SXSWEDU 2026 session made the case that mergers, acquisitions, and strategic collaborations can be powerful tools for expanding impact, building resilience, and helping organizations adapt in a volatile environment.
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Leveling the Playing Field for the Collegiate Female Founder SXSW EDU 2026 Schedule | The massive equity gap is no surprise to any of us, yet we’re often left wondering – how do we tackle and contribute to such a major ecosystem problem? In this talk, we’ll show you how we use evidence-based approaches to equip our students with the skills, tools, and resources they need to navigate challenges as female founders. We’ll discuss how to integrate this research and practices into programming, for the benefit of all students, as we look to become a microsystem at parity for replica...

Whitney McElwain, Director of the Kendra Scott Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute shared an evidence-based playbook for closing the VC funding gap for women founders at #SXSWEDU. The research exists, the interventions work & they're not complicated.

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#SXSW starts tomorrow with the #SXSWEDU crossover day. Make the most of your SXSW experience with our top picks for #SocialImpact sessions: https://ow.ly/wb8k50Ysz1X

#SXSW #SustDev #SDGs

#SXSW 2026 kicks off today. Check out this guide to the top 25 sessions that matter most for social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and sustainability-focused professionals.

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#socent #impinv #AIforGood

Who’s Funding the Future—and Who’s Getting Left Out SXSW EDU 2026 Schedule | While billions flow into tech, too little reaches the people building for equity, justice, and long-term public benefit. This session brings together leaders rethinking who gets to fund emerging tech and why—across both venture capital and philanthropy. We'll explore how to back founders closest to the problems, build alternatives to extractive tech, and redirect capital toward innovation that actually serves communities. It's time to expand who defines innovation—and who profits from it.

When capital concentrates, so does influence over what gets built, who benefits, and which problems are worth solving. #SXSWEDU 2026 conversation about #VC, #philanthropy, and equitable #innovation with NAACP Capital, SomosVC, Kapor Foundation, Omidyar Network
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2 engineers-turned-entrepreneurs made the case at #SXSWEDU that raising more girls to build companies starts with raising more girls to believe they can.

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great! will be interesting to see if someone is building a database on all these new AI / SDG projects.

chatgpt.com/c/6904def4-3... -- comments?

Wondering what 'light listening' might look like for impact investors making small (<$5000) grants to non-profit social enterprises.

techcrunch.com/startup-batt... TechCrunch has an interesting database.

Will be interesting to see how outcomes / results of these meetings are assessed. US / rest of world.

This article is a great touchpoint for assessment and discussion of how the UN is doing on reforming itself. More of this kind of article will be interesting.

Looking forward to reading this report!

wonder what a balanced more pro-ai source for a post might be

Watch Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall | Netflix Official Site Dr. Jane Goodall connected humanity and nature in unprecedented ways. In this deeply personal interview, she shares her final message with the world.

Great video of Goodall's Last Words. www.netflix.com/watch/820531...

At GIIN Impact Forum, institutional investors seek to chart a path forward Explore insights from the GIIN Impact Forum, where leaders discuss the future of impact investing amid global change.

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I like the GIIN but is it opt-in only for the survey? Does that bias results? Will be interested to see if social media (SUG or others have any external analysis on what it means going forward.)

Useful takeaway: "Treat the prompt like a product—build a prototype, test, assess, iterate. Our (somewhat arbitrary) threshold was that each element of a prompt had to deliver consistently high-quality outputs on five cases before we could consider it part of our standard prompt."

@startingupgood.bsky.social Will SUG be covering? $ needed to watch or YT? Response in Teams.

AI for Good 2025: Day 3 Recap AI Governance: From Principles to Practice

We are in the last day of the #AIForGood Global Summit. Need to catch up on what you missed? Here is our recap of Day 3:

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"I ask you to recommit to treat AI not as an end, but as a means, as a means to do good as much as we possibly can for the benefit of all of the humanity everywhere."
~ Doreen Bogdan-Martin, @itusecgen.bsky.social, in closing the #AIforGood Global Summit