opportunities

Vision Summit 2008 2008 Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship Pace University Pitch Contest Esalen workshop on Social Entrepreneurship Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Youth Contest 2009 Echoing Green Fellowships Blog Action Day -"Poverty" Project 10 to the 100th Social Innovation Camp Global Entrepreneurship Week

 

job listings

Skoll Foundation Spirit of America Center for Community Justice Digital Wish AltaMed Health Services FLO-CERT Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility PSI (Population Services International) AeioTu, Fundacion Carulla Commonweal

 

blogs

Clinton Global Initiative Dave Johnson from NY Dr. O on Funding Patrick O'Heffernan, Ph.D. The Edge They live on The Edge Generating blueEnergy Mathias Craig Global X The X-Interviews Kiva Chronicles Matt Flannery Let there d.light Sam Goldman SVT on Impact Sara Olsen and Brett Galimidi Tactics of Hope Wilford Welch & David Hopkins Untangled Jason Clark

 

coming soon
discussions
10/14	Taking Risks
10/21	Network Practices
x-interview
10/14	Paula Goldman
10/21	Premal Shah

News on The Edge
Welcome to the Social Edge update!

“Where is the Money?” asks this week’s host, investment expert Hernan Pisano, before offering “an economist’s anatomy of social enterprise funding.”

With an MS in Psychology and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, as well as linguistic skills that include English, Spanish and Portuguese, Hernan Pisano is the right person to help us understand the for-profit to non-profit funding continuum.

He writes: “If social entrepreneurs can’t be financed by the formal capital markets because they can’t offer competitive market returns, they must access the philanthropic arena and compete for funding with classic philanthropy on the basis of being a more efficient (more impact and/or returns) capital allocation method.”

Join Hernan in the conversation, then visit Patrick O’Heffernan’s blog, Dr. O on Funding. Dr. O helps you decide whether you should seek grant funding and private gifts to launch your social entrepreneurial venture, or whether you should instead form a corporation and seek private investors.

As you decide which road to take, check Beth Kanter’s advice on leveraging new Web 2.0 tools like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to build virtual relationships. The connections you make online will help you structure your venture and find the right investors.

Finally, check the new Tactics of Hope blog, a practical source of information from case studies of individual social entrepreneurs showing how they are reaching their goals.

Don’t forget: If you are a social entrepreneur whose work has the potential for large-scale positive change in areas that threaten the survival of humanity (climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, conflict in the Middle East and water scarcity) now is the time to apply to the Skoll Awards. The next deadline is November 4.

Join this Week's Live Discussions

Where is the money?
Hernan Pisano helps you understand the for-profit to non-profit funding continuum.

Beth Kanter on Pumping up your Professional Network
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… Leading consultant Beth Kanter helps you build relationships online to better scale your social venture.

How to Stand Out as Top Talent
What sets some social entrepreneurs apart? Seth Green helps you understand how to evaluate social entrepreneurs and their work.

Watch the X-Interview
Dumisani Nyoni
Dumisani Nyoni, Director of the Zimele Institute in Zimbabwe, tells Global X why he is rebuilding rural schools: “We want to make sure that our schools are factories of opportunities, factories of hope!"

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Victor d’Allant
Executive Director, Social Edge

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