FYI: SSIR Live! New webinar series

"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? Statement of Faith You can find other "Market with Meaning" but you definitely want to see "Profit with Purpose". I personally "Believe in Kingdom Transformation" because I know there is only ONE "Life for Significant". 社會企業家的事業 my facebook  &  my twitter  &  my tumblr --- 2009年11月6日 星期五，Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 寫道﹕ 寄件人: Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 主題: SSIR Live! New webinar series 收件人: incubator.hou@gmail.com 日期: 2009年11月6日,星期五,上午6:42 Trouble viewing this e-mail? Click here. First in New Webinar Series, SSIR Live! Ten Nonprofit Funding Models, presented by William Foster, Bridgespan Group SSIR kicks off its new webinar series, SSIR Live! , on December 2nd at 2pm EST with "Ten Nonprofit Funding Models" presented by William Foster, partner and head of the Bridgespan Group's Boston office. Foster will share important principles that nonprofit leaders can use to help them achieve their organization's long-term fundraising goals. These principles include concentrating on particular sources of funding and taking advantage of the natural matches that exist between different types of nonprofit work and the different types of funding likely to support that work. "Ten Nonprofit Funding Models" was one of SSIR's most-read articles in 2009, and Foster is a popular speaker at SSIR's Nonprofit Management Institute. SSIR's publishing director, Regina Starr Ridley, will moderate. For more information and to register for this pay-per-view webinar, click here. The registration fee includes on-demand access to the webinar for 12 months. Check here for announcements of future webinars in the SSIR Live! series. Webinars will be presented on the most provocative and important topics that have appeared in recent issues of SSIR and from sessions at the Nonprofit Management Institute. Book Review: Rethinking Human Nature Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner The conventional view of human nature is that self-interest is our strongest instinct. In this narrative, every action and decision that Homo economicus makes—the choice of a mate, what work to pursue, whom to befriend—is ultimately driven by self-interest. Even child rearing is merely a way to propagate one's genes. This view of human nature is not without merit. Most people would agree that self-interest is a powerful driver of human activity. But is this a complete and accurate portrait of human nature? What about people's proclivity to act cooperatively and altruistically? Is it the case, as Adam Smith and T.H. Huxley believe, that prosocial behavior is solely a cultural construct created to curb our supremely selfish base impulses? These are the questions that Dacher Keltner tackles in his new book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. >>Continue reading this article The Latest From the SSIR Blog Scott E. Hartley: Open Source Altruism In today's inter-connected world some of the most innovative models for social innovation will become those that can modularize, or crowdsource, and aggregate small tasks. Philanthropy was once one-to-many in direction and amplitude, but today facilitated means of communication and synthesis online are enabling many-to-many philanthropic models to become widespread and increasingly powerful. Crowdsourcing is by no means a new concept, though its form has changed. Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began in 1999 with a screensaver download, SETI@home, a program that utilized idle CPU power to scan through radio telescope data in search of life beyond Earth. By 2005 over 5 million unique users had downloaded SETI@home, and were contributing to the search. In 2001 NASA created the experimental Clickworkers project to locate and categorize craters on the surface of Mars. NASA was able to partition the mapping into bite-sized tasks, make high-resolution photographs of the Martian surface available online, and syndicate this task to 85,000 crowdsourced volunteers online. Though each person performed only a few minutes of pro-bono work ... >>Continue reading this post Subscribe to social change! We're offering new and renewing subscribers the Stanford Social Innovation Review magazine for 23% off! 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