Workshop IV: Social Entrepreneurship: Making Things Happen
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting - Davos, Switzerland, 25-30 January, 2001
A collection of Knowledge Agents being gathered to support the Process during the Four Work Shops that will be facilitated by Matt and Gail Taylor.
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Click here to go to Matt's public website describing the process that will be used to facilitate these workshops.
Workshop IV: Social Entrepreneurship: Making Things Happen, Tuesday, 30 January, 11.30-12.45
Social entrepreneurs create social value through finding innovative solutions to social problems. How can local, national and global programmes and policies foster or hinder the development of social entrepreneurship? How can global social investors support, and learn from, social entrepreneurs and their organizations?
Purpose/Objectives: Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship: How do you nurture it? Social entrepreneurs create social value through finding innovative solutions to social problems. Many work despite multiple financial, legislative and social barriers. How can local, national and global programs and policies foster or hinder the development of social entrepreneurship? How can global social investors support, and learn from, social entrepreneurs and their organizations? This is an opportunity to learn about these issues, and others, from the experts: Social Entrepreneurs themselves!
New Paradigm: In the year 2025, social entrepreneurship is the fastest growing sector, soon to become the largest sector, in the global economy.
Experts:
- William Drayton, Chairman, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, USA
- Youssou N'Dour, Musician and Singer, Senegal
- Jim Pitofsky, Chief Executive Officer, SeaChange USA
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SeaChange - The entrepreneurial nonprofit marketplace for social change The mission of SeaChange is to catalyze sustainable social change through social entrepreneurship. SeaChange forges alliances among social entrepreneurs, social investors and business leaders by creating the entrepreneurial nonprofit marketplace that provides access to expertise, collaboration and capital. |
| Vision - SeaChangeÕs impact will be online, offline and profound. |
| SeaChange fact sheet - Click here for the pdf document. |
| SeaChange Frequently Asked Questions - Click here for the pdf document. |
| CIVICUS - Promoting a worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens who are actively engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity. |
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CIVICUS World - Newsletter of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, January-February 2000 (Click here for the pdf document) |
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Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka searches the world for the best new ideas, championed by the most capable, innovative social entrepreneurs. We select them as Ashoka Fellows through a rigorous process, and invest in them financially and professionally. This website is a GREAT resource for information on social entrepreneurship. |
| Ashoka, Investing in social change, by William Dowell, Time, July 24, 2000 |
| Some brief biographical info on Youssou N'Dour is available on africana.com. |
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The Joko Project Summary Countries that lack the resources to participate in the global networked economy may be irrevocably marginalized in the ÒDigital Divide.Ó Youssou NÕDour, one of the most celebrated African musicians in history, is taking action against the widening technology gap by initiating The Joko Project. His immense social influence in Senegal will allow the Joko project to harness the aspirations of Senegalese youth and teach them the skills of the entrepreneurial future. (Click here for the Word document) |
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Gaviotas, A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman Gaviotas is the story of a small community in Columbia that has grown in one of the harshest regions, not only in Columbia, but perhaps the world. In the words of the author, "this community, has elevated phrases like sustainable development and appropriate technology from clichŽ to reality." |
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BetterTogether, The Report of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America The goal of BetterTogether is to provide interactive opportunities to celebrate the new and better ways that Americans are connecting, and provide tools that make it easier for them to do so. Click here for a pdf file of the report. |
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Indivisible, Stories of American Community Indivisible: Stories of American Community is an exploration of community life in America by some of this country's most accomplished photographers, radio producers, and folklorists. Here are the stories of twelve communities where people are coming together to make their small piece of the world a better place to live. |
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The Pomegranate Center is a non-profit organization that provides resources for public participation, involves citizens in investing in and creating community gathering places, and develops programs that link youth with their community of place. |
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WorkingForChange is a comprehensive Web site made up of resources for people with progressive values. Anyone with Internet access (members and non-members alike) can speak out on urgent issues, go shopping, make a donation, volunteer their time or listen to the radio. |
| Working Assets Long Distance (WALD) -Working Assets Long Distance helps you change the world just by talking on the phone. |
| Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. |
| Alleviating Poverty Through Technology, by Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, Science, Volume 282, Number 5388, Issue of 16 Oct 1998, pp. 409-410. |
| Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit - Putting Communities first in the Information Age |
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Khmer Kids Link to the Future, by Michael Hawley, Technology Review, January/February 2001 Today, for U.S. $14,000 you can build an elementary school in rural Cambodia. You can even name it for someone you love. Click on www.cambodiaschools.com and build one. Last year, I saved my money and built a school for my mom; it was the nicest Christmas present she had ever received. And what happens to your donation is extraordinary. |
| Live Aid - This is not an official production of the Band Aid Trust or anyone connected with it. It is merely an attempt to remind people of the great day that was Live Aid, fifteen years later on. |
| Live Aid - One of the most interesting phenomena of the mid-eighties was the recurring trend of benefit singles and concerts. The social consciousness of the music industry has never been higher. For the first time, rock musicians tried to use their power for the greater good of all mankind. Through Band-Aid, U.S.A. For Africa, Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hear 'n' Aid, Artists Against Apartheid, and Amnesty International, musicians called out to their follower to make the world a better place. |
| The American rock music festival was something that grew out of the increasingly popular style of music, while incorporating the features of existing music festivals. |
| Netaid.org - Netaid.org uses the Internet to empower people to take action on extreme poverty around the world |
| Nomad Net - Africa's Slow Death - a good portal for information about AIDS in Africa |
| Beyond Grey Pinstripes - Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship |
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When workers own a bank, when a town provides high-tech infrastructure, when nonprofits go into business - these are enterprises that sustain communities and empower employees |
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The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship", J. Gregory Dees The idea of "social entrepreneurship" has struck a responsive cord. It is a phrase well suited to our times. It combines the passion of a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination commonly associated with, for instance, the high-tech pioneers of Silicon Valley. The time is certainly ripe for entrepreneurial approaches to social problems. |
| Social Enterprise Meets Venture Philanthropy: A Powerful Combination, by Alison Buttenheim Manager of Consulting Services, Center for Nonprofit Management This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Business Journal, Vol. 20, No. 46, November 16-22, 1998 |
| Getting Better At Doing Good, A dynamic breed of entrepreneur is using business strategies to combat social ills, by Emily Mitchell, February 21, 2000 |
| India's silent but singing revolution, by Pramila Jayapul, Yes! - A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter 2001 |
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Sea Change, Inc., An Independent Environmental Analysis Group (Not the same as SeaChange, but it looks like this group is doing important work too.) Sea Change is an environmental analysis group that provides impartial and accurate evaluations of scientific and technical data to parties involved in environmental investigations or disputes. |
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Destination Democracy - A project of the Benton Foundation If you could improve one feature of America, what would it be? Child Welfare? Education? Environmental laws? Health care? Handgun regulations? The tax code? How About Campaign Finance? |
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The Gift Economy, by Gifford Pinchot Not all economies are based on maximizing personal gain - some are founded on giving. |
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