Would Gandhi Use Social Media?

"Any social-change hero succeeds in doing three fundamental things -- raising awareness, creating impact, and ...

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Unlocking Multiple Forms of Wealth

Much of today's society is designed through the lens of financial wealth, but is our world richer for it? Nipun ...

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A Sparrow's Song to Lift up the Sky

"The sparrow heard that the sky was falling, and while all the other creatures fled, she asked herself, 'What can I ...

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The Spirit of Service

Nipun Mehta gave his first public talk at a monastery. He was 25 years old and the subject was "The Spirit of ...

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#MakeVirtueViral: a Graduation Speech for Uncertain Times

"Commencement speakers are typically supposed to inspire you to make a splash in the world, be somebody, do ...

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Arun Dada and Mira Ba

How easy is it to "love your neighbor" when your intoxicated neighbor wakes you up in the middle of the night and ...

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Graduation: a Song & Speech for the Ages

Just in time for the millions of students around the world preparing for the milestone of graduation, comes this ...

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When Generosity Meets Venture Capital

What happens when someone who has spent much of his life on volunteerism and generosity keynotes an event for ...

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Everybody Is Good at Something: Meeting V. R. Ferose

V. R. Ferose was a rising star at SAP in Bangalore when he first found out that his son Vivaan was on the Autism ...

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Can We Create Social Change Without Money?

Can we create social change without money? Just holding that question can raise some very interesting insights. In ...

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Algorithms & Love: Dancing with the Creative Tension of Our Times

"The data we can extract, the data we handily give up for the sake of short-term convenience or simply out of ...

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"I Teach to Learn": Compassion in Education

"Learning, today, is heavily rooted in the material realm. It's almost an assembly line to get a job, to get money, ...

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12 Questions Around Volunteerism

In this thoughtful piece ServiceSpace founder Nipun Mehta fields twelve probing questions on how to nurture and ...

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From Sharing Economy to Gift Ecology

Technology advances and a consumer-based world have created a 'sharing economy', where it becomes easy to ...

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Wings of Love

On Christmas Eve of 1983, a personal loss changed the course of Nancy Rivard's life. In its wake she purposely got ...

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Embrace the Grace, Celebrate the Infinite

In a recent graduation address Nipun Mehta shares the origin story of ServiceSpace and the shifts catalyzed by ...

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Giving Away a Billion Dollars -- or Not

Best-selling author David Brooks was asked what he would do if he had a billion dollars to give. In his recent NY ...

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#heartivism: Gently Shaking the World

Today's activism is often built around an either-or logic -- my way or your way, where one way necessarily loses; in ...

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Ani Choying: Gratitude and Service

Ani Choying Drolma never expected to be a Rockstar Nun. She only wanted to be of benefit to others in her life and ...

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Deepcasting in an AI World

In a world rapidly evolving towards AI dominance, the essence of human connection is more vital than ever. In a ...

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