13 days ago by Bianca

The Bank of Scotland Corporate £6 Million Social Entrepreneur Awards is now open for organisations that have inventiveness and commitment to make a difference, for example contributing towards social, environmental or community benefit. Charities, voluntary organisations, churches or any other not-f ...

Funding News from SYFAB - fundingnews.wordpress.com · 1 reference

15 days ago by William

Social Enterprise is a approach to business that looks to balance three bottom lines, profit, employee welfare, and social-environmental causes. However, the spirit of Social Enterprise tends to follow bullish and bearish trends of it own. It seems reasonable to assume that people are more generous ...

Entrepreneurs Creative Edge - entrepreneurscreativeedge.com · Rank: 63,009 · 2 references

16 days ago by Rizwan Tayabali

I recently wrote a post on whether or not social enterprises would survive the credit crunch, where I suggested that many would pull through as I believe the crunch will only help drive social innovation faster. It will embed the recognition that we have to be able to help each other, and create not ...

The Urban Survival Project - urbansurvivalproject.blogspot.com · 4 references

18 days ago by Rod Schwartz

An erstwhile colleague of ours journeyed to Cairo, Egypt, and wrote a blog post about a meeting he had. One day we hope to do a “Catalyst in the Mideast” trip (any volunteers?), to go with our other “ Catalyst in….” trips, but we decided to publish this one-off piece by Charles Kaye. On a trip to Ca ...

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19 days ago by Remy

Dr. Texler, JD, who teaches Social Entrepreneurship at Pace: "Social enterprise has fetishized a commercial world it barely understands." On the other hand, check this out, farm scale ethanol plants. You can't see me in this picture, because I was too close to the camera to appear in the shot, but I ...

Solar Wind Energy News - solarwindenergynews.com · 6 references

20 days ago by Mark

Ironically, one of the greatest barriers to innovation in the social sector lies with precisely the group that the social sector is trying to make up for, the government. By imposing strict and arcane rules on non-profit eligibility, earned income, and blended value organizations, non-profits seekin ...

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20 days ago by ninaterol

My friend Jamie’s response to my blog entry “So, where to now?” was like a giant Superpoke from across cyberspace. His answers and examples reminded me again of why I made the leap from employee to entrepreneur, and why I sincerely believe that this country needs to develop a social entrepreneurial ...

Out of the Universe - outoftheuniverse.wordpress.com · Rank: 22,654 · 4 references

21 days ago by j4bfunditpundit

This week Communities secretary Hazel Blears, speaking at the Acevo conference, invited applications to the eagerly anticipated £7.5 million Empowerment Fund. It has been claimed that the Fund, intended to offer support to charities, community and voluntary groups and social enterprises across Engla ...

j4bCommunity's Fund-it Pundit - j4bfunditpundit.wordpress.com

22 days ago by Ben Matthews

Here's a video from the guys at Social Innovation Camp, which takes a rather special take on what the event is all about is all about. The video is a great way of illustrating how Social Innovation Camp encourages the use of social technology for social change - just make sure you watch with the sou ...

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22 days ago by jlyon

KNOWLEDGE WORK EVOLVES On the face of it, social software seems an unlikely example of enterprise collaboration. Aren’t social networks a fad? What does sharing photos or connecting with college buddies have to do with getting work done? One answer comes from considering how knowledge work has chang ...

Crowd People - crowdpeople.com · 1 reference