November 2009
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Essential tools to start a social enterprise.
A compilation of the best resources to help you get your social enterprise planed, designed, launched and creating a sustainable impact.
Over the past few months a conversation has been evoling in the social entrepreneurship scene around the topic of super heros and how we can open up the social enterprise sector to the broader public, especially the inclusion of those at the bottom of...
October 2009
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3 crystal clear cases why social entrepreneurship...
Stop talking about social entrepreneurship as a charity and start seeing it as a powerful tool of economic development. I’m soundly convinced that the true latent power of social entrepreneurship is as an economic development tool with the ability to turn a homeless/poor person from a tax burden charity/aid recipient to a consumer, tax payer and creator of value with the same kind of...
August 2009
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A comprehensive survey of Social Entrepreneurship
This post was created in an effort to have a single document that serves as a primer for social entrepreneurship. It can be used as both a top level overview of the sector as well as provide easy access to further in depth research.
What is Social Innovation?
Social innovation is a sustainable initiative, product or process which profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority...
January 2009
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Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's... →
this may well become a new adcition. wonder how it compares with TED?
Social Capital & Social Business: The New... →
Why Social Business Is Capitalism's Missing Link -... →
Now a growing force around the world, microcredit provides poor people with access to one of the most basic human needs: capital. By making small, unsecured loans of twenty, fifty, or a hundred dollars, Grameen Bank and similar institutions make it possible for a woman with nothing to start or expand a simple business—raising chickens, weaving baskets, husking rice. For tens of millions of...
How to End Homelessness →
It’s a documented fact that it cost much less to provide housing to a homeless person than maintaing our shelter systems
Green Grannies serve up recession-busting advice →
The value on Trift is part of what made Tom Browka’s Greatest generation.
“Barbara Warmsley, Oxfam’s Green Granny continues her series of tips and ideas for saving money and living better. Here she talks about a great website for generating recipes from leftovers and shows how simply flicking a switch can save you cash.”
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RT @SouthwestAir For a complete explanation of our Earnings report, here’s Gary from CNBC this morning: http://tinyurl.com/c3xyfp
RT @craignewmark: RT: The new governance starts with some housecleaning: http://tinyurl.com/azklns
RT @christineegger explicitly linking context and networks and social capital and influence and *impact* http://tr.im/9ux8 TY
RT @betaworks Is it me, or aren’t the entrepreneurs da ones who are supposed 2 b innovating & creating markets, not… http://bit.ly/3qClkf
p$5 @wellwishes for CharityWater to save lives. What can 2 do http://bit.ly/awish You can tweet to donate via @tipjoy too
interesting SM analytics solution from @aaronnewman http://is.gd/gMcz collect, analyze & report in all forms of social media.
SUSTAINABLE BRANDS Conference ‘09 http://budurl.com/p57z
RT @socialentrprnr: Fast Co’s Top 10 Social Enterprises 2009:Civic Ventures http://is.gd/gLsi
How Can a $124.8 Million a Year CEO Make Health Care More Affordable? http://is.gd/gLNE
Fundamentals of Mobile and Mobile Marketing (white paper, PDF) http://is.gd/gLlQ
RT @socialentrprnr: rt @BetheChangeInc: WE Media wants good ideas & will give up to $50,000 in seed funding to the best 1. http://is.gd/gLqp
Developing a Digital Roadmap for Your Brand. (white paper, PDF) http://is.gd/gLhr
RT @missrogue: Full text of Obama’s presidential memoranda on FOIA, transparency & open government. http://snurl.com/ahw5q (via @mlsif)
Interesting: “turn your company’s stories into engaging conversations using proven social media technology.” http://is.gd/gL9K
RT @endhomelessness WE ARE THE CHANGE THAT WE SEEK http://tinyurl.com/a2v724
RT @endhomelessness Hiding the Homeless: Inaugural Edition http://tinyurl.com/9xugls
RT @GamePlanHayden: RT @armano top 10 online tools to connect to Obama admin http://is.gd/gsLr Change will come from all of us!
Great chat with @nedgington regarding needed infrastructure for Austin’s social enterprise sector. Great work! http://budurl.com/r5dy
Tweeps who rock: @Rippleon for the great work he does in showing folks the exponential effects of good deeds & professionalism.
RT @Pistachio A Birthday Wish: http://bit.ly/awish Please RT: together we can save children’s lives in 5 entire villages #wellwishes
Good morning Mr.President. Welcome to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Let’s get to work! @barackobama
Happy birthday @Pistachio !!!!!!
RT @socialactions: Idealist blog: More Ideas for Change http://tinyurl.com/8j4hw8
Great chat with @dbryanjones awesome guy. Brilliant ideas. Check out @moximity
RT @SCaldwell: RT @TheWhiteHouse A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation http://tinyurl.com/9hg94y
Just like our nation. I’m back on the saddle! All is good!
Ask not what Obama can do for you. Seek out what you can do for our country! … Then do it.
Falling is inetible. What matters is that you get up and keep going!
Why @BarackObama will fail. Unless “We The People” engage! http://tinyurl.com/6vfsmz (fixed link)
RT @sacca: Rick Warren’s golf clap is a testament to the politeness, forgiveness, and bipartisan willingness of this crowd and nation..
RT @jwales: asking you to read my daughter’s interview with Jimmy Carter about Obama’s inauguration: http://tinyurl.com/9o6kfe.
RT @sacca: We can see Obama in the wings. He looks like a boxer warming up. Letttttttt’s get ready to rummmmmmmble! Let’s ALL get ready!
glad to hear a hopeful & realistic tone from the newscasters. #inaug09 #inauguration
Watching history from the hospital. Also watching a working poor lady be slammed with huge bill. No insurance. She is crying.
RT @SCaldwell: I couldn’t have said it better. RT @xian3000: I love today. The peaceful exchange of power seems miraculous unto itself.
AMEN!!!
Deeply greatful President Obama did not use “I” . Only “We” & “Our”
PLAY BALL!
Why @BarackObama will fail. Unless “We The People” engage! http://budurl.com/5qdl
Great way to strart the day. Bike wreck. Abulance ride.
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Why “We The People” is the key to help Barack...
Today ushers in the hope and opportunity of a bright new dawn for our nation and our world.
The reason for that is not the one man who will take the helm. But rather, it is that an entire nation will wake up from it’s complacency and self-centered life. Today has the potential to be the rebirth of democracy. Not the hollow shell of it we have had for decades. No, this is real, vibrant,...