Social entrepreneurship

 

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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Accelerating the business of social change

Neera Nundy
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘An organization can either be a baby or a dwarf,’ claimed Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease – a baby will grow with the right energy and inputs, whereas a dwarf will always stay the same size. How to ensure your social enterprise is a ‘baby’ was the overall theme of the opening session ‘Lessons Learnt, Fingers Burnt’ of the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, held on the 8–9 December at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Click here to read ...


Beyond hero worship – a Stranglers’ theme tune for Skoll
Tommy Hutchinson

Beyond hero worship – a Stranglers’ theme tune for Skoll

Tommy Hutchinson
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The Skoll Forum is the time of year when half the world – the world of social enterprise, that is – seems to descend on England and for a few days everyone marvels at the wonderful social businesses on show and finds a host of new heroes to champion. Click here to read ...


Pooling data to make it easier to find social entrepreneurs

1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

The Skoll Foundation, PopTech, ideablob and Civic Ventures have pooled their data to create the first open database of social entrepreneurs. The Social Entrepreneur API (Application Programming Interface) will allow philanthropists, investors, press and fellow entrepreneurs to find social entrepreneurs based on keyword, location, cause area, population served, and a variety of other factors.

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Michael Brophy wins leadership prize in 2009 UK Charity Awards
Caroline Hartnell

Michael Brophy wins leadership prize in 2009 UK Charity Awards

24 June 2009
www.alliancemagazine.org

People often ask me what Michael Brophy is doing these days. I am delighted now to have something very positive to offer in this regard as Michael was recently honoured with the Outstanding Leadership Award at the 2009 UK Charity Awards – I can’t think of a more deserving recipient. Daniel Phelan, editor of Charity Finance, has written an excellent account of Michael’s myriad achievements in his 20 years as chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation and since. Michael was a true ‘social entrepreneur’ long before the term became a philanthropy buzzword. Click here to read ...


Event  Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Date   25-27 March
Venue  Oxford, UK
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Social enterprises share 2009 Skoll Award

1 April 2009
www.alliancemagazine.org

Seven organizations have won a 2009 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and will receive three-year grants of $765,000 (£535,000) in unrestricted funding, and join the global network of Skoll social entrepreneurs. The organizations are: BioRegional Development Group, EcoPeace – Friend of the Earth Middle East, Fundacion Gaia Amazonas, INJAZ Al-Arab, International Center for Transitional Justice, VisionSpring, and WaterPartners International. The awards were presented at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford late last month.

Source
Philanthropy UK Newsletter, 19 March 2009

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