News on The Edge
Welcome to the Social Edge update! Can you imagine a new blueprint to peace through health as a common language of need? It actually exists. Dr. Arnold Noyek, a Senior Ashoka Fellow, has built durable trust and confidence through cooperative health initiatives across the Arab and Israeli fault line. By fostering professional development and continuing education, he has created a working model for combating ignorance and overcoming conflict in the Middle East. Tell Dr. Arnold Noyek if you think his model could be replicated in your part of the world. And tell us how you currently work around a disruptive political situation that prevents conversations. Then join Curtis Chang, who just attended the Social Enterprise Summit. He highlights the continuing impediment facing social entrepreneurs who have a strong profit motive: “At the conference, ‘mission’ showed up en masse, but ‘marketplace’ seems to have skipped the meeting.” This is echoed by Jonathan Lewis, who writes with great passion about the Kickstart business model: “There is an often naïve expectation that good social entrepreneurship necessarily equates to sustainability and profits. Kickstart pumps achieve all the ‘good’ metrics, but they are not financially sustainable, let alone profitable.” He is also quite virulent about the political situation in Arizona: “Americans could learn a hardball lesson about globalization and the interconnectedness of humankind.” Speaking of connectedness, with Mother’s Day coming up in May in nearly 60 countries, now might be a good time to reflect on the role mothers play in making the world a little bit better every day. As Untangled puts it: “It’s all about being more social!”
Join this Week's Live Discussions  Conflict-to-Cooperation Conversations in the Middle East
Arnold Noyek has built cooperative health initiatives across the Arab and Israeli fault line, a new blueprint to peace through health as a common language of need. Tell us if this Middle East model has global potential.
Government: Social Investment Catalyst or Market Disrupter?
What is the role government should take in accelerating the new social economy development? Join Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, in the conversation. From Social Entrepreneurship to Social Interpreneurship
At the 2010 Skoll World Forum, Peter Deitz discovered Social Interpreneurship: two parts Internet, five parts Interaction, and ten parts Interdependence. He now wonders whether we have evolved beyond social entrepreneurship. Join him in the conversation. Structuring Collaboration
Mergers, partnerships and new business models: Charles (Hipbone) Cameron looks into how social entrepreneurs should structure their collaborative efforts to increase social return. The Power of Impact & Measurement
What are the challenges in trying to measure systems change? How do you implement programs that measure the power of collective investments? Join the Skoll Foundation's Lakshmi Karan in the conversation. What's wrong with being poor?
Are the poor actually unhappy? Do we want them to have things they don’t need? What is really wrong with being poor? Join Mumbai-based Lindsay Clinton in this provocative (but constructive) conversation.
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