On June 2,2010, the YSEC Staff attended Innovation Camp put on by Enterprise Toronto. We attended a session by Stuart Lombard, from ecobee, on Fostering Innovation in the Workplace. What we appreciated about Stuart’s presentation was that all his examples were concrete actions. Enjoy his PowerPoint from Innovation Camp 2010 below:
A presentation by Stuart Lombard, President and CEO of [...]
YSEC recently went through a Quarterly Business Review where we looked back over our year so far and evaluated what’s worked well and where we can improve. We used this information to help us map out our plans for the upcoming year (which we’re super excited about!). Keep an eye out for more information on this [...]
For many of us at YSEC, David Bornstein’s book, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, was one of our first introductions to social entrepreneurship.
As a result, we were thrilled to have David as the keynote speaker at our recent conference, re:Vision 2010. (For some great reflections on Bornstein’s [...]
A resource to keep up with the most current news and happenings in the world of social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and social finance in [...]
Listen to Enterprising Non-profits’ Social Enterprise Podcast Series for advice on topics ranging from What is Social Enterprise? to Marketing Social Enterprise to Financing Social Enterprise. A good way to learn more about social enterprise on the [...]
Check out this interesting article discussing the “Hole in the Wall” project in India which showed that kids with no formal computer training or literacy living in a New Delhi slum, when left to their own devices, were able to teach themselves and others how to use computers. The article goes on to discuss the decision of [...]
Watch the Skoll Foundation’s 9 minute film about social entrepreneurship, “Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change” for an introduction to the field:
Check out the Skoll foundation’s website for more background information on social entrepreneurship. What do you think of the film? Do you think it does a good job of explaining what social entrepreneurship [...]
Meet Joe Ippolito, a “self-taught entrepreneur” and follow him along on his journey starting a social venture in his blog series featured on GOOD (an integrated media platform, according to their website, “for people who give a damn”). While you’re there check out the plethora of articles, blog entries, videos, and other GOOD stuff available on this value-packed [...]
A video exposing the flawed system that we live in and the impacts it has on [...]
