September 2009
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SSE Community Consultation - Toronto
September 23rd was a successful and inspirational day, book-ended by two events that captured the drive and passion of social entrepreneurs.
In the morning, we held the first community consultation at MaRS in Toronto with a fantastic group of people with first-hand experience working as social entrepreneurs. Some had decades of experience and others were just starting out. We talked about the...
The Third Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise
Living our Values: Social Enterprise in Action — November 18 to 20, 2009
Join hundreds of existing and prospective social enterprise operators from every region in Canada at the Third Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise taking place in Toronto, November 18-20, 2009. The conference will consist of three days of training and work sessions toward a national policy agenda and action...
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News: Extreme do-gooders – what makes them tick?
Five extraordinary social entrepreneurs talk about their defining moments - when the urge to change the world gathered such force they couldn’t ignore it.
NEW YORK - From protecting our natural environment to improving our children’s education to combating global poverty and disease, we’ve come to rely on extreme do-gooders to tackle the world’s toughest problems. And...
Event: MeetUp - Young Social Entrepreneurs of...
Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada (YSEC) is dedicated to helping extraordinary young people with bold ideas to change the world. On Wednesday, September 23, YSEC is holding their second MeetUp event where panelists will help budding social entrepreneurs, ages 17-29, to learn more about social enterprise and how to put their ideas into practice.
We’re attending and hope to connect with...
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News: University of Guelph receives funding for...
GUELPH, ON, Sept. 16 /CNW/ - The University of Guelph and The Co-operators today launched a new centre dedicated to preparing a new generation of business leaders committed to community engagement and sustainability. The Co-operators Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship will be supported over the next five years by a $400,000 gift from the Guelph-based insurance and financial services...
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SSE Workshop: September 23 @ MaRS in Toronto
The first of five community consultations is rapidly approaching! We’ve had RSVPs from people working in a range of fields - from new technologies and online networks to scholarship foundations to food services.
The Toronto workshop will take place on Wednesday, September 23rd from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the MaRS Discovery District (located at 101 College St.)
If you or anyone you...
Update: Chatting with the Advisory
I’ve spoken with three members of the SSE Advisory who had fantastic insights about social entrepreneurship education and the SSE model and shared some similar thoughts, namely that the SSE model would be good for Ontario.
The main reasons? It fills a particular niche by reaching out to social entrepreneurs who are looking for specific skills and is more flexible than programs that operate...
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SSE Community Consultations
As part of the study, we are holding 5 community consultations across the province. It’s an exciting part of the project as we’re bringing people together from a wide range of backgrounds – community groups, volunteers, educators, students, and social entrepreneurs – to discuss the value an Ontario School of Social Entrepreneurs could bring, what it might look like and how it might...
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Update: Touching base with INSEAD
INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Program has a different audience and student body than the SSE and some of the other SE programs run through business schools.
ISEP attracts people who are usually already successful social entrepreneurs, many of them (up to about 50%) come to the program via organizations such as Unltd, Ashoka, Schwab and so forth. The students at INSEAD are operating at a...
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Update: First conversations
Yesterday, I had two wonderful and very informative phone calls with some leaders in the field of social entrepreneurship education.
The first call was with the Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta School of Business. The second call was with the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.
A common theme in both conversations was the need for more...
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News: Skoll Foundation Invests in Leading Social...
The Skoll Foundation announced today second round investments in fifteen social entrepreneurs in its portfolio driving large-scale impact worldwide. In addition, the Foundation announced the first Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in its 2010 round, a $765,000 grant to Civic Ventures, plus investments in two key partners who promote social entrepreneurship and social innovation, Ashoka and...