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Welcome to the Social Edge update! “Do you have plans to train local Africans, to share and transfer knowledge?” This is the question Almaz Negash, an Eritrea-born consultant, has been asking to many successful social entrepreneurs. Their answer “Yes. But how do we proceed? And when should we start?” Knowledge transfer, a process critical to capacity building for social entrepreneurs as they strive to scale impact, has often been neglected. “For years, the focus of development has been on poverty reduction, rather than on skilled labor creation.” Tell us how we can deliver greater impact by collaborating on a large scale to create the systems that will support those social entrepreneurs who are trying to transfer knowledge. Then revisit your Theory of Change with Charles “Hipbone” Cameron, and see if you can align it with other players working in the same issue area. And contribute to Sara Olsen’s fearless quest about our third axis of value creation: the personal bottom line. Speaking of bottom line, Dr. O tells you how “easy-to-use software can give you the power to use video to find new money and volunteers.” Also looking at the bottom line is Magogodi Makhene, who summarizes a report showing that private sector-led sustained economic growth reduced poverty in Africa. After reporting on Riders for Health, IDE-India, Marine Stewardship Council and Apopo, Alvin Hall wonders how Partners in Health can scale even further its model of community-based care in extremely poor communities. Speaking of scale: whether you are a “quant or a qualit,” make sure that you don’t make a fetish of your metrics, as Jonathan C. Lewis reminds us that “victory takes many forms in the open marketplace of social change.” He concludes: “Social entrepreneurs come in all sizes and shapes and do good for humanity under many legal formats. Hail to them all!”
Join this Week's Live Discussions  Knowledge Transfer for Greater Impact
We need to provide knowledge transfer to build capacity building and move away from a system of dependency, writes Almaz Negash. But how do we support those social entrepreneurs who are trying to transfer knowledge?
Theory of Change: A Collaborative Tool?
Your Theory of Change can simply be an in-house tool, or an in-sector methodology that you can use collaboratively to avoid needless duplication of effort. Join Charles "Hipbone" Cameron as we discuss how to get greater impact at the level of the issue. Technology and Social Innovations
Ashoka’s Rosa Wang just got back from Hyderabad where she attended Tech4Society. Join her in a conversation about the challenges and successes of technological innovation to serve the poor. The Personal Bottom Line
Where do you fit on a three-axis graph with X=social, Y= financial and Z=personal? SVT Group’s Sara Olsen wonders what your personal bottom line looks like. Death by Definitions
Social investment, mission-related investment, or impact investing? Rod Schwartz answers: "Let’s spend our time growing the sector and leave it to future generations to decide what to call what we did." What do you think? The Fetishization of Metrics
If the value of social entrepreneurship is not reducible to simple quantitative terms, how do we define and capture the impact we are having? Join Charles (Hipbone) Cameron in the conversation.
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