-David

Our new website, Dowser, launched last week!

At Dowser, we report on social innovation and stories of change. We provide daily coverage that explores the question: Who’s solving what and how? Each day, we dig up compelling stories and useful insights to share with you.

We created Dowser to fill a gap in the media’s depiction of the world. While the news focuses largely on scandals, conflicts, and problems — many creative ideas and potential solutions remain hidden.

We believe that journalism needs to do a better job helping people imagine how tomorrow can be fixed, not just telling them how yesterday broke. The answer isn’t to provide feel good news at holiday time or celebrate a few heroes, but to redefine the daily news altogether. That’s what we’re trying to do.

Check out the site and send along your suggestions and critiques – and of course your story ideas!

I’ll be doing lots of blogging, conducting interviews and reporting stories.

Please let us know what you think.

-David Bornstein



“We need your service right now, at this moment in history. I’m not going to tell you what your role should be. That’s for you to discover. But I’m asking you to stand up and play your part. I’m asking you to help change history’s course, put your shoulder up against the wheel. And if I – if you do, I promise you your life will be richer, our country will be stronger, and someday, years from now, you may remember it as the moment when your own story and the American story converged, when they came together, and we met the challenges of our new century.”

The folks at Be the Change, New Profit, Hands On Network and Civic Ventures deserve a resounding applause.