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We’re sold out at the Montreal Girl Geek!
Our presentation at the Montreal Girl Geek Dinner is already sold out! I will be discussing social entrepreneurship and the web in a talk called “The Good, the lucrative, and the web-friendly”.
Wow. I can’t wait to meet y’all over there!
If you wanted to attend and won’t be able to, please drop us a line: it’s always a pleasure to meet new people and share thoughts and ideas on our passions. Plus, I will post notes and thoughts after the event.
And for those of you who will be present tomorrow, be ready for cold calling, self-development exercises and team work. Just kidding. Kinda.
I’m an educator after all.
2 comments June 16, 2009
E-180 is invited to TechStars for a Day!
We are planning on launching our Beta by August and in order to do so, we are looking for the best developer, the best mentorship and some seed funding.
It happens to be exactly what TechStars is offering: the tools necessary to work faster, better and harder to get where you need to be at the end of the Summer. We applied, we got invited to go to TechStars for a Day in Boston next week, we’re ecstatic!! TS4AD is “an invitational one-day mini-camp for TechStars applicants.” It’s not a guaranty you’ll get in the program, but rather a day of networking and tips on how to succeed as an emerging tech entrepreneur.
We’ll keep you posted on the event, the great people we meet, and share some tips on how to take your incubator application to the next level.
Meanwhile:
- Apply to an incubator yourself!
- Know what they’re looking for!
- Learn about how to get into an incubator by being the underdog!
- Reflect on the trade off of “equity vs value added” of an incubator!
Add comment March 6, 2009
Dancing with Steve Wozniak
Found today on the eConcordia 2009 Summit:
Due to Steve Wozniak’s commitment with ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, the eConcordia Summit 2009 previously scheduled for March 12, 2009 has been re-scheduled for September 10, 2009.
We apologize for any inconvenience that you may have incurred and we sincerely hope that you will join us in September.
Stayed tuned, the official eConcordia Summit 2009 website will be re-launched March 6, 2009.
Is it me or it’s kind of funny? But how disappointing for us. He better be good.
If you don’t believe it, here’s a proof.
Aaaaand, another one:
Add comment February 18, 2009
Radical educators wanted!
We haven’t talked too much about our education beliefs: I mentioned a couple of times that we firmly believe in the “doing” approach to learning. Breaking news: we also believe that learning can only happen under meaningful circumstances, and that it has to be consensual.
One of the most interesting and controversial movement in education is Free Schooling. Present in many countries, it is born out of the Spanish Anarchist movement of the late 19th century and promotes a non-hierarchical schooling structure, a curriculum defined by the students and the teachers together and a democratic decisional process. One of the most famous free school is Summerhill School, founded by A.S. Neill and still ran today by his daughter. Neil wrote a cult-book, A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, which illustrates his radical perception of education and of children’s sovereignty.
The high school program of the Albany Free School, the longest running inner-city democratic free school in United States, is currently looking for a full-time teacher, and so is the elementary program. They are offering a unique opportunity to learn more about this movement, its values, challenges and hopes. They even made a movie about the school, which allows us to penetrate the very seldom daily routine of this learning community, with its ups and downs.
They also have internship positions available.
Good luck!
1 comment February 16, 2009
Business Week is looking for social entrepreneurs
As found on NetSquared, Business Week is looking for the most promising social entrepreneurs in the U.S.
We are looking for companies that aim to both turn a profit and solve social problems. To do so, we’re asking for your suggestions of for-profit companies based in the U.S. that are tackling social problems in new and innovative ways here or abroad.
Qualifications
For companies to be eligible, they must:
* be for-profit companies based in the U.S.
* be tackling social problems in new and innovative ways in the US or abroad
* have been in operation for at least one year
Add comment February 9, 2009
Our Top 25 Social Entrepreneurship websites
They say that social entrepreneurship is the new green… One thing is certain: social entrepreneurship’s following will grow very fast in 2009, especially after the election of you-know-who.
Social entrepreneurship has almost as many definitions as it has institutions promoting it. For us, the meaning of social entrepreneurship is very well encompassed by the two words composing it :
Entrepreneurship : To create a new venture.
Social : For the common good.
To help find your way in this field, we mapped out what we believe are the best resources to get the news, the money and the training linked to the marvelous world of social entrepreneurship. In no particular order:
Update (02/06/09): Thanks so much for the great feedback! Please note that this list doesn’t aim to be the ULTIMATE social entrepreneurship websites list, nor a billboard: it is simply the resources we use and refer to the most. Look out for the additions to the list.
03/02/09: We recommend you visiting The Top 50 Social Entrepreneurship blogs to watch in 2009. Great resource.
Best Social Entrepreneurship News websites
1. E-180
Ok, that’s us. We keep you posted on social entrepreneurship, consensual education and social media. News, fellowships, training programs, resources.
2. CSR Wire
CSRwire is the leading global source of Corporate Social Responsibility news.
3. Change.org – Social entrepreneurship
The social entrepreneurship blog @ change.org. Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.
4. Stanford Social Innovation Review
Strategies, tools and ideas for nonprofits, foundations and socially responsible businesses
5. Fast Company – Social Responsibility
Fast Company often features articles on social responsibility and social entrepreneurship. They also organize every year the Social Capitalist Awards. Along with the 45 world-changing nonprofits, they also honor ten companies not only striving to make a profit, but to also make a difference.
6. Social edge
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources. A Skoll Foundation initiative.
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.
8. Alltop : Social entrepreneurship
The best of blogs on social entrepreneurship, from Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.
The best of blogs on social good, from Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.
Best Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships and Funding websites
10. Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
11. Echoing Green
Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world. They provide seed money, in the early stage of a social venture.
12. Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Their main funding program is the Skoll Awards for Entrepreneurship
13. Tides Foundation
Since 1976, Tides Foundation has worked with donors committed to positive social change. They put resources and people together—strengthening community-based nonprofit organizations and the progressive movement through innovative grantmaking.
They identify the world’s leading social entrepreneurs: Over the past eight years, the Foundation has been selecting 20-30 social entrepreneurs annually from around the world into its network of leading social entrepreneurs. The social entrepreneurs are selected from more than 1000 candidates that apply every year either to a national “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” competition or directly to a regional selection of the Foundation.
The Reynolds’ Foundation funds two great social entrepreneurship fellowships : one for Harvard graduate students and one for NYU graduate students.
+ Unltd
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs – people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.
Best Social Entrepreneurship Training Programs websites (non-academic)
16. Net impact (Multiple locations)
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world. We offer a portfolio of programs to educate, equip, and inspire more than 10,000 members to make a tangible difference in their universities, organizations, and communities.
17. StartingBloc (Boston, New York & London)
StartingBloc’s curriculum is delivered through their signature program – The Institute for Social Innovation. The Institute is a two-month program anchored by four one-day conferences. They provide students and young professionals with the training, education, and networks necessary to turn any career into a socially responsible one.
18. Global Social Benefit Incubator (Santa Clara, US)
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™), a program developed by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society in partnership with Social Edge. It assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing business plans that enable their organizations to reach increasing numbers of beneficiaries.
+ School of Social Entrepreneurs (Multiple locations: UK, Australia)
The SSE runs practical learning programs aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organization simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
Best Social Entrepreneurship Training Programs websites (academic)
This list was published by CNN Money in 2007.
19. Babson College (Boston, MA)
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship is the hub for entrepreneurial activity at Babson. The center’s mission is to lead the global advancement of entrepreneurship education and practice through the development of academic, research, and outreach initiatives that inspire entrepreneurial thinking and cultivate entrepreneurial leadership in all organizations and society.
20. Columbia University (New York, NY)
Columbia offers the Social Enterprise program, where students develop a perspective on how to apply business skills to social enterprise endeavors and align personal and professional values in careers that result in social benefits to a broader community. The curriculum explores social enterprise within four focus areas: Public and Nonprofit Management; International Development and Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.
21. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
At the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, they believe the private-sector has a critical role to play in helping solve the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. They work directly with companies around the world to identify, understand, and capitalize on these competitive opportunities.
22. Duke University (Durham, NC)
A research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.
23. Harvard University (Boston, MA)
Grounded in Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.
24. New York University (New York, NY)
The Satter Program in Entrepreneurship is to educate, challenge, and inspire social entrepreneurs to leverage intellectual, social, and financial capital resources with a focus on social change, innovation, and impact.
25. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Their Center for Social Innovation aims to inspire and educate social innovators, providing knowledge and ideas that strengthen the capacity of current and future leaders to champion social change.
+ Oxford Saïd Business School (Oxford, England)
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 2003 at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, to promote the advancement of social entrepreneurship worldwide. In addition to delivering innovative teaching programmes, the Skoll Centre has developed a portfolio of research which employs theory but that is also valuable to practitioners in the field.
Best Resources for Social Entrepreneurs
+ Center for Social Innovation (Toronto, Canada)
The Centre for Social Innovation is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in its home base of Toronto and around the globe.
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33 comments February 4, 2009
Praise for a tweet: Kawasaki meets Bornstein
It always feels good when the work you put into something has meaning for others. We just found this article on Nathaniel’s blog at Change.org mentioning a @e180’s tweet that got a lot of traction yesterday.
Watching people discover social entrepreneurship on Twitter is one of the best ways to get a sense of how the language of the field is permeating. I’ll often see tweets about content that was created years ago, but just got someone hooked. A number of people yesterday retweeted a link from @e180 about an interview that serial entrepreneur, author, and tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki did with “How to Change the World” author David Bornstein. (more…)
Here is the full interview.
Follow us for the latest news on social entrepreneurship, education and social media!
Add comment February 4, 2009
The new TED Fellows program
Who doesn’t dream to go to TED, all expenses covered?
Here’s your chance!!
The TED Fellows program is designed to bring together young world-changers and trailblazers who have shown unusual accomplishment and exceptional courage. The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, though anyone from anywhere in the world, age 18 and over, is welcome to apply.
Fifty Fellows will be recruited each year. Of those Fellows, 20 will be selected for the extended, three-year Senior Fellows program. (more)
For some inspiration, meet the 2009 Long Beach Fellow, which includes the Founder of Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network, a conservation geneticist using genetic markers to track and interdict illegal songbird trafficking or a Iranian physicist turned documentary filmmaker.
2 comments February 2, 2009
TechSoup Canada launches today!
My friend Evelyn reminded me that TechSoup Global, or the Technology Place for Non-profits, launches today its Canada branch, in partnership with the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Centre for Social Innovation, and the Information Technology Association of Canada.
They have various programs:
TechSoup
TechSoup is a trusted technology resource that offers a variety of information and services for the benefit of the nonprofit sector. TechSoup provides instructional articles and worksheets for nonprofit staff members who utilize information technologies, as well as technology planning information for executives and other decision makers. Our introductory articles and message board support are aimed at those who do not have much experience using technology, but we also provide more advanced information.
TechSoup Stock
TechSoup Stock is the technology product philanthropy service just for nonprofits and distributes multiple product philanthropy programs in a centralized, Web-based platform. The TechSoup Stock program has served more than 83,000 organizations and distributed over 4 million products as of June 2008.
TechSoup Global Network
TechSoup Global Network helps social benefit organizations and charities outside the U.S. and Canada obtain donations of essential technology products, information and services. It currently serves the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, South Africa, Botswana, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Hungary, India, Hong Kong, France, Chile, and Taiwan as of June 2008, is projected to expand to 60 countries by 2012.NetSquared
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup Global which enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social Web.
If you are a Canadian charity, non-profit organization or a public library and you would like to register for the TechSoup Canada Product Donations Program, please fill out the Register Your Interest page. Good luck!
Add comment January 30, 2009
News: Technology and learning at Concordia
As found on their website:
For the first time ever, eConcordia will be holding a unique event designed to offer academics, professionals and key decision makers a better understanding of the cultural paradigm of technology and learning. The eConcordia Summit 2009 will welcome professionals, experts, practitioners, researchers and educators to meet and network with high-profile eleaders who will address how technological advances are impacting the way we learn today.
More + registration at http://www.econcordia.com/summit2009/
We’ll be there.
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Add comment January 19, 2009
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