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Welcome to the Social Edge update! We recently hosted a conversation on Doing Good While Living Well to help you find work that resonates AND pays well. It was so successful that we are now asking Omar Garriott to investigate how the new crop of business school graduates who want to change the world are navigating the corporate world. “I have become smitten with Social INtranpreneurship, the idea that change agents inside corporations are also a key part of the social change equation,” says the recently minted Berkeley MBA graduate. But if the allure of being a social INtrapreneur is clear, how can you actually become one? To get a pulse on that, he surveyed his fellow 2009 Berkeley-Haas MBAs and now wonders if the distinction between social ENtrepreneurs and INtrapreneurs really matters. Aren’t all change agents operating within a larger system? Is the skill set really all that different? Check his survey results and join him in the conversation. Then travel to Ghana where Kiva Fellow Zerrin Cetin reflects on the flame you see in most entrepreneurs, to Asia where Avantage Ventures writes about Taiwan’s Sunshine Foundation, and to the Amazon where Dr.O gathered success stories of social entrepreneurs working in the jungle. Curtis Chang delivers some very valuable Expert Advice on fundraising, while Magogodi Makhene wonders whether she will succeed in social entrepreneurship without an MBA, and Untangled looks into ignorance and bliss to create a better world. Completing his series on why Unitus unexpectedly abandoned its microfinance work, Jonathan Lewis writes that it has earned the benefit of the doubt and that “microfinance will no longer operate in an unexamined vacuum. The path forwards is unclear, but worth taking.”
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Berkeley MBA Omar Garriott wonders what it will take to create the field of Social INtranpreneurship, when change agents inside corporations also become key parts of the social change equation.
Restricted vs. Unrestricted Funding
Unrestricted. Restricted. Temporarily Restricted. What do these terms mean to you, as a donor or as a recipient? Join Charles (Hipbone) Cameron as we explore the subtle issues surrounding funding restrictions. Muhammad Yunus and Social Business
Is there room for several definitions of a social enterprise? Is there more than the Grameen approach to enabling the social economy? Join Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, in a provocative conversation. New Education for New Leaders
To solve poverty, disease, and environmental degradation, we need to transform the education system, says Eric Glustrom, Executive Director of Educate! Join him in a conversation on how to unlock the potential of the next generation.
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