Embracing your Inner Punk Rock to Change the World. Speaker(s): Ned Breslin, CEO, Water for People Published: September 09, 2013 Download 26 minutes, Ned Breslin kicks off the series by telling us where he draws his inspiration from and where he gets his perspective on social change from – punk rock.
With a disregard for tradition and a fierce desire to challenge the norm, the punk rock ethos is the heartbeat of a story of social entrepreneurship. Host Ned Breslin is the CEO of Water For People.
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Innovation. L'évaluation de l'utilité sociale, Pourquoi ? Comment ? Quelle valeur créée ? Mercredi 20 février 2013, 9h00 - 19h00 | Université Catholique de Paris Le Master 2 Économie Solidaire et Logiques de Marché (ESLM) de la FASSE (Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Économiques) Institut Catholique de Paris) organise le Mercredi 20 février de 9h à 19h en salle B18 une journée d’échanges-débats sur le sujet. 9h40 : Discours de Benoît Hamon, Ministre délégué chargé de l’Economie Sociale et solidaire et de la consommation (sous réserve) How do you turn a charity into a business ... and why would you? Children using an improvised solar lamp at night at their manyatta [mud-thatch home] in Kisima, Samburu county, Kenya.
Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images In Kenya, one can drive for hours at a time and see village after village with no electricity. One charity cannot solve the problem of power just as they can't solve many of Africa's other big challenges such as clean water, decent education, irrigation, medicine and food. Like mobile phones in the past ten years, solar lights will only become ubiquitous when the private sector embraces them; when there's a value chain that incentivises everyone from a large scale importer in Dar es Salaam; to a shop-keeper in rural Zambia; and to everyone in between, including local handymen to fix them when they break or shop-keepers to sell spare batteries. Which is why SolarAid, despite its name, has come to believe in a market based approach: selling solar lights, not giving them away. Calendar of 2013 nonprofit & social change conferences. Tweet The graphic recording created during Socialbrite’s “You Need a Strategy” session at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
SuperGuide to events for nonprofits & social good organizations Here’s our roundup of conferences in the nonprofit and social change sectors coming up in 2013. This has become an annual tradition here at Socialbrite, and we hope you’ll bookmark this page and return to it throughout the year — we’ll be updating it throughout 2013 as more conference details firm up. A premier gathering for social entrepreneurship education. Club Express Yourself "Du business et du sens" U Influencer: How might social innovation change the course of higher education? Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 08/15/12 Editor's note: This post was written by Brittany Koteles, research fellow (storyteller and adventurer) with the U.S.
-Spain Fulbright Commission and volunteer at Ashoka. Education has been historically endeared as the great equalizer. Now, in the 21st century, universities have been held up as beacons of innovation and knowledge that have helped fuel social change in any sector you name. But it’s not so easy: Higher education is also linked to ivory tower elitism, unthinkable tuition rates, scandals, and flaws that have many asking, Is a college education worth it? Ashoka U Changemaker Campus Director, Michele Leaman, likened the higher education community to the Titanic: There’s no denying that an iceberg is waiting for universities of the 21st century. So how can we keep our universities from going under and turn education around? Read other pieces in this Social Innovation For Higher Education Series by AshokaU. Ess-europe. Club Express Yourself "Du business et du sens"
Finances participatives/solidaires. Entreprise & Solidarité. Entrepreunariat social. Mécénat de compétence. ESS. Carrotmob à la REcyclerie. Le samedi 12 Juillet, de midi à minuit, l’association Carrot Community organise le premier Carrotmob de La REcyclerie.
L’association, vous donne rendez-vous pour un après-midi d’up-cycling et d’activités en tous genres dans une ambiance bonne enfant. On vous l’avait déjà présentée dans les ouvertures 2014, la REcyclerie va devenir le lieu incontournable de cette nouvelle année. Le samedi 12 juillet, c’est l’association Carrot Commnunity qui investit les lieux. L’association rassemble toutes celles et ceux qui veulent donner “du sens à leurs dépenses”. Le principe est simple : en accord avec un commerçant choisi, un jour donné, les Carrotmobbers et les Carrotmobbeuses se réunissent et viennent consommer chez lui. Open & Social Innovation. Appel à candidatures - Booster d’innovations sociales. Vous portez une innovation sociale et vous souhaitez la développer ?
Ce qu'une association peut apprendre d'une start-up de l'économie sociale et solidaire.