Ashoka - Innovators for the Public Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980. It has since become the world's biggest incubator for social entrepreneurship with over 2000 Fellows in over 60 countries. See at the above link how it works, and read on, for inspiration, about social entrepreneurs which Ashoka supports, at http://www.ashoka.org/news/fellows.
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Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurship Series (audio) Bill Drayton, the founder and chair of Ashoka starts this audio series with a talk on a new citizen sector and its opportunities. Other speakers are Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International Fazle Abed, the founder of BRAC and Mohammad Younus, the founder of Grameen Foundation. This series is also available also on the Ashoka site. At this Stanford site, you can also download the talks to your MP3 player.
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Funding Social Enterprises (Stanford Discussions, 2006) This panel discussion addresses key questions for any social entrepreneur: "What does a successful candidate look like?", and "What is a common mistake that candidates make?", and "What does it need to become a social entrepreneur?" This 45 min podcast provides most useful insight and advice for anybody to improve their chances of success. Panelists include Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation, Amy Clark, Global Fellows Program Leader of Ashoka, Jessica Jackley Flannery, co-founder of Kiva, and Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, founder of BUILD. Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, leads the discussion. Can be listened on the website, or downloaded (20 MB).
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Short videos on Social Entrepreneurship (Stanford Discussions) Over 60 short video podcasts on social entrepreneurship: 1-3 min highlights of speeches on topics ranging from micro credit, women, to examples of entrepreneurship, skills needed and much more. Inspiring collection. You can watch them right on the site, or download the videos (4-6 MB each).
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Social Edge - By Social Entrepreneurs, for Social Entrepreneurs Provides numerous resources for social entrepreneurs: a big link-list of resources, discussions, features, blogs and links to funding organisations worldwide, by region. If you are looking for a one-stop site for your needs to set-up or move on with your social enterprise, you may well have find that place here, plus plenty on inspiration. This is a blog of the Skoll Foundation, one of the leaders in promoting social entrepreneurship, see also at www.skollfoundation.org.
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Social Entrepreneurs tell their Story (video) Social entrepreneurs tell their story in 85 short videos on this youtube channel from Social Edge, the blog of the Skoll Foundation. For more success stories, see also http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/entrepreneurs-depth.html.
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition Thoughtful review on the subject and discussion on what a social entrepreneur is. The authors, Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg, are both from Skoll Foundation. Some of their arguments are not without controversy, see comments at the bottom of the page. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2007.
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition What is social entrepreneurship, what are its aims and how does it work? This article by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg provides a broad overview with many examples of successful case stories. Roger L. Martin is on the board of the Skoll Foundation, and Sally Osberg is the CEO of the Skoll Foundation. This foundation, together with Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation, are the key promoters of social entrepreneurship worldwide. Article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2007.
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The Process of Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Opportunities Worthy of Serious Pursuit "All acts of entrepreneurship start with the vision of an attractive opportunity. For social entrepreneurs, an “attractive” opportunity is one that has sufficient potential for positive social impact to justify the investment of time, energy, and money required to pursue it seriously." This model develops the opportunity creation process into two steps: the social entrepreneur first generates a promising idea, then develops it into an attractive opportunity. Key text for start-up social entrepreneurs. Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees, and Beth Battle Anderson, 15 p., November 2002, Duke Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship.
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