This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Everyday changemakers are addressing the hard questions of local, national and global quandaries. This weekly article accentuates those individuals and organizations creating systematic and lasting change [...]
“People in poverty are championing the way out of poverty,” declared Daphne Nederhorst, Ashoka Fellow and founder of Sawa Global, an organization highlighting local changemakers in their home communities. Four Sawa Global employees, including Nederhorst, recently flew to Haiti from their home base in Vancouver, British Columbia. Once on the ground, they didn’t bark orders [...]
This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Everyday changemakers are addressing the hard questions of local, national and global quandaries. This weekly article accentuates those individuals and organizations creating systematic and lasting change [...]
Social Venture Partners Minnesota is proud to announce the four finalists for the Social Entrepreneur’s Cup awards. The Social Entrepreneur’s Cup is a competition to find and recognize Minnesota’s most innovative and effective social entrepreneurs and the organizations they lead. The four finalists compete cash awards and services as part of the Engaged Philanthropy Conference [...]
More than 125,000 years ago, humans discovered fire. With it came a source of heat, warmth, and light. Unfortunately, for 1 in 3 people living today, very little has changed. This is energy poverty. Young Australian entrepreneur Hugh Whalan and New York carbon credit and green energy specialist Scott Tudman, have co-founded a new non [...]
The Feast social innovation conference and Nokia are excited to introduce Change Connections, an online open innovation platform and initiative around the potential of new connections for social good. Change Connections is a place to collectively exchange, connect and collaborate for social good and to foster new thinking on groundbreaking social innovation. A website [...]
This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. 2010 Social Enterprise Summit and World Forum in San Francisco Follow my coverage from each day of the Summit: * Day 1 — Social Engagement Through [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. Following the previous night’s performance of soothing and rustic tones of Wake For Dead, The Grateful Dead cover band with a Celtic twist, Day 3 at the 2010 Social Enterprise Summit started out with some Aussie flavor. I attended the Stories from Australian [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. Government and social enterprise The 2010 Social Enterprise Summit opened its second day with a plenary panel delving into the government and social enterprise collaboration. Social Enterprise Alliance public policy board member Jim Schorr started the event questioning the state of the union [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. The 2010 Social Enterprise Summit and World Forum (#SocEnt10) kicked off Wednesday with a rallying call to Generation Y. As I weaved my way through the hoopla of the Summit showcase and reception I found many organizations that focus a large amount of [...]
The following is a shared post with the Social Enterprise Alliance blog. How do you explain something that your listener doesn’t understand? Put it in their own terms. Relate to their wants, needs and desires — what they know. Tell them a story. What I’m most looking forward to at the Social Enterprise Summit are [...]
This is a partner column in conjunction with Ashoka’s Change InSight blog. Every week I’m covering the top news, highlights, events and opportunities in the realm of social entrepreneurship. Bill Drayton on the power of collaborative entrepreneurship in McKinsey’s “What Matters?” Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton has contributed an essay to McKinsey&Company’s [...]
The following is a shared post with the social enterprise alliance blog. After talking with Mike Del Ponte of Sparkseed and his mention of Leila Chirayath Janah, founder of Samasource, I had to explore further. In his words, “I think Samasource represents so much of what is exciting about social entrepreneurship: leveraging technology and earned income strategies, [...]
