FYI: Magogodi Makhene/Curtis Chang/Rod Schwartz/Leila Chirayath Jana/Clare Mulvany

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington Carver What is Social Entrepreneurship? 社會企業家的事業 my facebook  &  my twitter & my tumblr --- 2009年9月23日 星期三，socialedge@skollfoundation.org <socialedge@skollfoundation.org> 寫道﹕ 寄件人: socialedge@skollfoundation.org <socialedge@skollfoundation.org> 主題: Magogodi Makhene/Curtis Chang/Rod Schwartz/Leila Chirayath Jana/Clare Mulvany 收件人: incubator.hou@gmail.com 日期: 2009年9月23日,星期三,上午5:57
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News on The Edge Welcome to the Social Edge update! Social Edge welcomes today a new blogger, Magogodi Makhene, who writes in her opening post: “By the time of my birth, Africa was buried in the lost decade of the 80s and our home country, South Africa, was embroiled in the angst of apartheid's slow, painful death. The Africa that greeted my birth was a shadow of itself, smaller even than the colonized Africa of my grandmother's earliest days.” She is in New York this week, attending the Clinton Global Initiative, along with fellow Social Edge blogger Tom Watson. On Saturday, she will co-chair the Africa Social Enterprise Forum, a direct response to the question Rod Schwartz recently asked on Social Edge, Are the Only Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship Anglo-Saxon? The same Rod Schwartz wonders this week why so many endowments are invested in conventional financial assets rather than socially driven funds, a question echoed by Leila Chirayath Jana (who will also attend the Africa Social Enterprise Forum) as she looks into the relationships between business and social ventures. Also new on Social Edge is strategy consultant Curtis Chang. After teaching public policy at Harvard and doing development work in Africa, he now offers his Expert Advice on Social Edge. Submit your questions on how to scale your social venture today, then visit our resident funding expert Dr. O, as he shares how two teenage girls turned a tragic death into fund-raising opportunities. And now is the time to say goodbye to fellow blogger Clare Mulvany, whose last post on her One Wild Life goes up today: “Very quickly I stopped trying to reach a definition of Africa, because it does not, cannot, and nor do I think should, exist. Definitions limit. They put boundaries on things. ‘Africa’ is a place that does not need to be contained. Africa is everything.” Join this Week's Live Discussions What is Wrong with the Investment Industry? Many endowments are invested in conventional financial assets, as are most pension funds. Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, wonders what we should do about the lack of imagination in the investment industry. Maximizing Volunteer Impact What are the true costs and benefits of embracing volunteers? Tell us how social entrepreneurs can harness the enthusiasm and energy of volunteers to maximize impact. Social Entrepreneur: An Insane Job Description? Emerging social entrepreneurs try to address internal organizational challenges while directing the expanding mission of their social ventures. Curtis Chang wonders if there are ways to share expertise to be more efficient. Who will build a more efficient marketplace? Help Charles “hipbone” Cameron identify who will be stepping up to make the sector more efficient, rather than just trying to solve part of the problem for a few organizations at a time. Do we really need more money? By focusing excessively on the investment side, are we not missing an opportunity to invest more into building great social ventures? Join Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, in the conversation. Do you have suggestions for Social Edge or for this newsletter? Send us feedback. Hope to see you on The Edge! Victor d’Allant Executive Director, Social Edge 250 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Unsubscribe or manage your subscription (For the privacy protection, you may have to create a password)

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