Social entrepreneurship

 

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The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook: How to start, build and run a business that improves the world

Alison Bukhari
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Sitting here in Mumbai having spent a few days last week facilitating Dasra’s skills-building programme for social entrepreneurs, Dasra Social-Impact, it seems an apt time to be reviewing The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook. Rupert Scofield’s book is a series of case stories with advice from a mentor-like narrator.

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NESsT doing a great job but social enterprise needs more actors

Malcolm Hayday
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

If you Google social enterprise development in Hungary you get singular references to the CEE Trust and the Euclid Network but almost all the content comes from NESsT, which began its work with nascent social enterprises in Hungary almost 15 years ago. It was therefore no surprise that the first Social Enterprise Day, held in Budapest on 3 June, was organized by NESsT and was a showcase for NESsT and its portfolio’s work in addressing critical social issues. Click here to read ...


Collaborative entrepreneurship – the only solution?
Sarah Johnson

Collaborative entrepreneurship – the only solution?

Sarah Johnson
1 March 2011
Alliance magazine

We think of the social entrepreneur as a solitary figure, face into the wind, pursuing a unique vision of change. As a result, social entrepreneurship organizations have traditionally focused on providing entrepreneurs with individualized support. But what if entrepreneurship could be reimagined as collaborative? What if entrepreneurs could join forces to realize a collective vision for change faster? If anything could be more powerful than a big idea in the hands of a great entrepreneur, it would be an even bigger idea in the hands of many entrepreneurs.

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Report from the Khemka Forum for Social Entrepreneurship

Neera Nundy
22 November 2010

The Khemka Forum 2010 took place on 11 and 12 November at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. In between an impassioned opening plea from SKS Microfinance Chairman Vikram Akula for the whole social sector to mobilize in support of microfinance in Andhra Pradesh and a lively closing exchange between an entrepreneur and an academic on the very identity of social business, participants continued to build a rapidly evolving network and ecosystem for impact investing and social entrepreneurship in India. Click here to read ...


Social Competitiveness Index to drive social innovation

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Philanthropy and Social Investment is working on a social sector counterpart of WEF’s Global Competitiveness Report. What’s the idea? To encourage countries to compete with each other to create the most conducive environment for social innovation, explains Matthew Bishop, chair of the Council.

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Social innovation takes off in Europe

Geoff Mulgan
1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

‘Social innovation’ is sometimes used as a new label for CSR or social entrepreneurship. But in much of the world a distinctive new field is taking shape that cuts across the different sectors. One of the main drivers of this has been the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX). In the most recent development, the European Commission is supporting SIX and the Euclid Network (which links the chief executives of Europe’s big NGOs) to identify ten large-scale successful examples of social innovation.

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Charité Entrepreneurship Summit for Healthcare

John Lotherington
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Held in Berlin in March 2010, the Charité Entrepreneurship Summit for Healthcare brought together some 400 people − scientists, medics and tech transfer experts alongside entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capitalists and patent lawyers, among others − from Europe and the US. A central goal for the Summit was to look for innovative ways of bridging the 'valley of death', that chasm between the inspiration in the lab and its arrival as medication or an appliance in use. Click here to read ...


Skoll World Forum 2010

Alejandro Litovsky
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Can a single social entrepreneur make a dent in the problems we face, given their phenomenal scale? This was one of the questions addressed by the 7th Skoll World Forum held at Oxford’s Saïd Business School from 14 to 16 April. The simple answer is: very unlikely. So a series of plenary sessions and workshops brought together entrepreneurs with representatives of government, media, large companies and financial institutions to explore how the solutions proposed by social entrepreneurs could create larger-scale change.    Click here to read ...


Scaling Social Impact: New thinking

Paul Bloom
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

How do you scale up an innovative and effective local drug rehabilitation programme or sustainable agriculture venture? This topic was the focus of two conferences organized by Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and its Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society in 2008 and 2009.

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The foundations of scale
John Elkington

The foundations of scale

John Elkington
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

How do you move from A to B to C, where C is orders of magnitude bigger than A?

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