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E-180 : ça marche!
C’est mardi passé qu’a eu lieu le premier Marché des savoirs de E-180, organisé en collaboration avec À go, on change le monde! pour le Réseau des entrepreneurs sociaux du Québec. Comme l’a indiqué Heri Rakotomalala (à qui l’on doit aussi les photos) dans son billet sur Montréal Tech Watch, rien de mieux pour un startup technologique que délaisser l’écran afin d’aller tester des présupposés fondamentaux au succès de son entreprise live, avec des humains.
C’est ce que nous voulons faire avec E-180: faciliter la rencontre avec celui ou celle qui est en mesure de nous donner un coup de pouce pour démarrer ou pousser plus loin la connaissance dans un domaine. Créer un endroit de rassemblement pour tous ceux qui croient que l’éducation est une relation et qui sont prêts à donner un peu de temps pour partager leur savoir au dessus d’un café.
Et s’il y a plusieurs mois qu’on y pense, le Marché des Savoirs fut l’occasion de finalement tester l’idée. Celle-ci n’est pas nouvelle: plusieurs d’entre nous apprenons déjà de cette façon, en offrant le lunch à l’ami d’un ami pour en connaitre un peu plus sur un sujet. Une plateforme web sera un outil extraordinaire afin de regrouper les fans de cette approche, mais ce qui compte, c’est de dévoiler les connaissances des gens afin de les connecter.
Un exemple: Anne-Laure Putigny, spécialiste en entrepreneuriat et chargée de projet pour À go, on change le monde! veut faire le Marathon de Montréal en septembre. Aude Leroux-Lévesque, documentariste, veut mettre sur pied sa boîte de production. Et il se trouve que le partenaire d’Aude est un marathonien. Match parfait: “E-180, ça marche! Bien que je connaissais déjà Aude, le Marché des Savoirs m’a donné l’occasion de faire des “connaissances” un sujet dont on discute, qui devient d’actualité. C’est ainsi qu’on dévoile au grand jour des compétences qui auraient simplement pu rester dans l’ombre. Aude et Sébastien sont venus prendre un verre chez moi, et Sébastien avait vraiment préparé un plan d’entraînement sur la base de son expérience. Ça va me sauver un temps fou, et je crois bien avoir orienté Aude et Sébastien sur un bonne piste en ce qui a trait au développement de leur plan d’affaires” rapporte Anne-Laure, maintenant membre du comité fondateur d’E-180. (on est vraiment contents.)
Tous les matches n’ont pas besoin d’être aussi réciproques: il est possible que je veuille obtenir de l’aide pour mettre sur pied un système de comptabilité et que celle qui m’aide n’aie pas envie d’apprendre la photo. Qu’à cela ne tienne: à E-180, on croit au karma. Et la plateforme web aidera à récompenser ceux qui distribuent leur savoir généreusement.
Pour partager vos connaissances ou voir les offres et besoins dévoilés lors du Marché des Savoirs, consultez le #E180 sur Twitter ou revenez d’ici la fin de la semaine: je mettrai cette information en ligne. Contactez-nous si vous désirez rencontrer un des participants. christine [at] e-180.com
Add comment July 14, 2010
Marché des Savoirs: 5@7 du Réseau des entrepreneurs sociaux du Québec, ce soir!
E-180 et À go, on change le monde! unissent leurs forces pour présenter le premier Marché des savoirs, inspiré de l’approche communautaire d’échange de connaissances de E-180. Seront réunis entrepreneurs sociaux aspirants et accomplis du Réseau des entrepreneurs sociaux du Québec!
Venez vous rafraîchir et découvrir qui, à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur de votre réseau, aurait envie de partager un peu de sa sagesse avec vous.
C’est un rendez-vous à:
L’Amère à boire, 2049 Rue Saint-Denis et sur Twitter au #E180!
Bientôt ici-même: des photos de Heri Rakotomalala et une liste des participants toujours à la recherche d’un acolyte!
1 comment July 6, 2010
What would Indiana Jones learn from Darth Vader?
How often did you meet with someone for coffee, just to “pick their brain” on something? Imagine a web app where you can actually find these people who, inside or outside your network, would be willing to share a bit of wisdom with you. That’s what E-180 is about! Kinda like the Couchsurfing of knowledge.
If you think this is a service you’d use to jump start your learning on anything, take a moment to
We really, really want to win. We really really want to make this thing happen! You can even tell your friends and vote every single day for the next… 2 MONTHS! (yes, it’s a loooong time). If you want to invite us to an event, to your TV show, to conference so we can talk about this: give us a shout and we’ll do it!
Meanwhile, we heard of two people you might know who used our Facebook page to share knowledge at a coffee shop. (yes, you can do that.)
Add comment July 1, 2010
The story behind E-180 in the Havard Ed. Magazine
Nobody teaches us how to be a great social entrepreneur. Just like many other things in life, one has to figure it out by herself, or to find the resources to make it happen. The know-how, the network and the cash, of course.
It’s been 2 years that I’m working on E-180, and we are just about to see the work coming into fruition. The pace has been slower in the last couple of months for one simple reason: I had to commit to a (great) full-time job in order to release some of the financial and emotional pressure that was created by the entrepreneurial lifestyle. My friend Peter Deitz wrote a great post on Social edge about personal debt and social entrepreneurship:
A perfect storm has formed around the failure of philanthropic capital to address the needs of social entrepreneurs, the ease with which personal debt can be accessed, and the stubborn enthusiasm that social innovators often bring to their projects.
There’s not a lot of room for mistake when each dollar is crucial. But after a year of funded knowledge-building (called J.O.B), I’m ready to jump full steam in the project that I’m wholeheartedly committed to.
The Harvard Ed. Magazine wrote an article on E-180 back in January 2010, and it’s my pleasure to share it with you as a reintroduction to our work, after almost a year of silence. It explains the why and how of it of this dream of mine. And in a couple of days, we’ll be able to make a great announcement, that could accelerate the course of the events… Stay tuned!
Add comment June 25, 2010
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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39 comments February 4, 2009
Christine Renaud
Catherine Therrien
