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Globe and Mail: What it means to be a mentor

The Globe and Mail’s Your Business asked three of re:Vision 2010’s speakers to answer “Why is mentoring important, and how did you first get involved in it?”.
Check out their full essays at Globe and Mail: What it means to be a mentor.
Catch Tonya Surman and Nathaniel Whittmore at re:Vision Earth Hour and Mark Simpson [...]

March 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: News, Social Entrepreneurship, Upcoming Events, events, social enterprise | Leave a comment

It Pays To Be Socially Responsible

We here at YSEC knew it to be true when we first dreamed up the mission and vision of our organization, so it excites us to see that more and more people are catching on to the idea that making system and social change can be a profitable and sustainable endeavor.
“People are realizing that small [...]

December 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

The City is a Buzz…Are You Getting in on Any of These Events?

photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/491168707/
Fall is a season of change and Toronto is definitely inspired this month. In the last week of October there a number of exciting events happening in your neighbourhood.
Three organizations come together and bring us GET Environmental Management System Workshop.  The City of Toronto, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and the Toronto Association [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: events | One comment

Social Entrepreneurship and I

A great line from the book Mission Inc.: “you won’t be good at social enterprise unless you’re passionately in love with the very idea of it.” Well I was never in love with [...]

October 6th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Lifestyle of Doing Good

Beginning in 11th grade, my parents made several unsuccessful attempts to enrol me in classes on business fundamentals. It just wasn’t my “thing” and I instinctively shied away from everything business because I thought it ran counter to my pursuit of social justice. Business fosters the kind of greed that has made carnage of retirement [...]

June 24th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Social Entrepreneurship | Leave a comment