Social Capitalists: The Top 20 Groups That Are Changing The World
Includes profiles of NewSchools Venture Fund, as well as NewSchools portfolio ventures Aspire Public Schools and New Leaders for New Schools
San Diego Charter School a Model for Technology Leaders
High School Will Never Be The Same
Reformers are pushing for a curriculum that uses technology to prepare students for the New Economy.
Venture Philanthropists: The New Schools Fund
The anxious promoters of a start-up company, wearing their Sears suits and begging for an investment from clench-jawed venture capitalists wearing Brioni: there is a version of this scene in the founding myth of almost every tech firm from Sun Microsystems to eBay. Venture-capital financing is as embedded in the culture of Silicon Valley as integrated circuits and $ 750,000 tract houses. So perhaps it’s not surprising that this form of financing—and its results-oriented assessment of potential investments—has made its way to the nonprofit sector.
John Doerr on education
Conventional wisdom says the only thing rarer in Silicon Valley than political activism is political consensus. In this case, conventional wisdom is correct. Which is why what happened last April 2 was nothing short of extraordinary.
On one coast, at San Jose’s Stonesgate Elementary School, Jim Barksdale spoke for a group of high-technology executives that included Gil Amelio, Eric Benhamou, John Chambers, Bernie Gifford, Andy Grove, Brian Halla, Floyd Kvamme, Scott McNealy, John Morgridge, Les Vadasz, and Jerry Yang.