SSE Community Consultation - Toronto II

We ended the community consultations with a bang on Friday. With the long weekend tantalizingly close and another grey fall day outside, the energy could have been low or sleepy. But it wasn’t. Our ten panelists were lively and creative and were happy to be together in the same room talking about social entrepreneurship. 

After the presentation, people leapt in immediately with their comments and ideas. An SSE Ontario shouldn’t try to simply meld or bridge the gap between NFP and the private sector, but should really try to pave the way for the ‘third path.’ The value of the school, as well as helping emerging SEs,  might also be to promote and foster this new way of thinking about new models of doing business. Someone mentioned running a public education campaign to help people ‘get’ social entrepreneurship.  

There was lots more where this came from. Another post will follow with more highlights!

Happy Thanksgiving~