Blog Posts by Derk Norde

Over 30 years ago, Beatriz Fernandez would never have thought she’d become one of Colombia’s most influential changemakers when she first started baking waffles from the family’s apartment in Bogota, using her own invented recipes. Today, the popular restaurant chain Crepes & Waffles is a certified

Our two-fold mission is the same it was when we started out 5 years ago: to get expertise to the parts of the world that need it most by mobilizing professionals to give what they’re good at, and in the process, connect them to world-positive,

When it comes to solving the most urgent challenges facing people and our planet, there is no single solution. To ensure our global future, we must empower the innovators that are working tirelessly to develop creative, sustainable solutions. Agora Partnerships and MovingWorlds are thrilled to

Last month, MovingWorlds attended the 5th Global Pro Bono Summit in Lisbon Portugal, as a new member of the Global Pro Bono Network. We are very excited to be part of this global network that was initiated by BMW Foundation and Taproot Foundation and to join

Partner Spotlight Series with TrustLaw (A Thomson Reuters Foundation Program) MovingWorlds is excited to announce a new partnership with TrustLaw! TrustLaw is legal pro bono service run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The service connects lawyers in more than 170 countries with NGOs and social enterprises that

This March, NuMundo, Caracol Consulting, MAYA COSMOS Transformational Journeys, and MovingWorlds co-produced the first “Social Innovation Experience”, a week-long learning-and-doing project at Lago Atitlan (Guatemala), with a group of 12 students from the Masters in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California. The purpose

When you hear about the Middle East today, it’s often related to extremism, war and refugees. However, experiencing the region first-hand will most likely leave you enchanted by the hospitality and richness of its food, architecture and people. We had a chance to talk to

Every month, we feature one of our partners that is working on exciting challenges and creating local jobs in the process. This month, we’re excited to highlight Ebanx, an award-winning, rapidly growing enterprise based in Curitiba, Brazil. It was founded in 2012 by its current CEO Alphonse

Last week, the first KIWA Investment Summit took place in Quito, Ecuador, bringing together almost 200 professionals from all over the world for 3 days of  insights, networking and investor matchmaking. Thanks to Martin Acosta, CEO of KIWA and the amazing organizing team, representatives of

This month, we’re featuring a renowned partner with an outstanding fellowship program, Kiva Fellows. For the last 10 years, Kiva has been transforming the field of microfinance, and we had the opportunity to ask them a few questions about their Fellows program, and how it’s

This month, we’re featuring our partner Winrock International. Winrock has been connecting professional volunteers (we call them ‘Experteers’) with local projects for almost 25 years. They’ve helped improve the lives of countless disadvantaged men, women, and youths around the world. We had the opportunity to ask Jen

[vimeo id=”107768682″] Experteering is fundamentally a win-win game, and we’ve seen our Experteers support startups and social enterprises in ways they couldn’t have imagined before. One example is Ebanx, an innovative payment processing startup in Brazil supported by Endeavor. Ebanx was  looking to expand internationally

2014 was a catalytic year for MovingWorlds and we’re excited to share our annual impact report with some key numbers from this past year. We hope you enjoy the infographic below. As we look ahead to 2015, our goal will be the same: Help social

This month, we’re featuring one of our partner programs with an outstanding fellowship program, Frontier Market Scouts. FMS have been training professionals to become change-makers since 2011, and we had the opportunity to ask them a few questions about how their world-class program started, and how

This month, we’re featuring one our partners, Maya Traditions, which is located in Guatemala. We had the chance to ask Alison about her organization and her experience with MovingWorlds. Read below to see how they used Experteers to help expand and launch a brand new website. Tell us about