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My start-up story: Jobeda Ali and Three Sisters Care. I'm starting my second business. The first one did not succeed. It was very hard to let go of it, but if I ever learned anything from the four years of building and running my first business, it was to recognise the success in failure. Like all things in life, your chances of success increase as you practice it. So to be frank, by having run a company before, I have improved my chances of building a successful company now. There are five key lessons I took away from starting up Fair Knowledge (a media company) in 2007 that I've applied to starting up Three Sisters Care (a social care company). Although the goal is to sell Three Sisters Care to our employees in 5-6 years, the new company is exactly the same as the old in the sense that we've started it as a company limited by shares with three share-holding directors.

The lessons I learned apply whatever field you are in. Secondly, this last year I had a major shift in thinking about investment. My two sisters are my company directors. Careers « Samasource. Samasource is an award-winning social enterprise with a huge vision: to connect the one billion people living in poverty around the world to work using technology. Samasource combines the fast-paced, results-driven culture of a tech start-up with the idealism and optimism of a next-generation non-profit. We like to move quickly and get things done —if you join us, you will be part of a dynamic team that is passionate about making an impact. Create a positive work environment.Live to solve big problems.Build technology to empower.Serve our workers and customers with pride.Take responsibility.Apply The New York Times Test to everything we do.Seek growth and learning. Latest Catalyst awards including a project in Sydney.

The Catalyst grants from the latest round have been announced! They will help build: infrastructure for a more entrepreneurial social sector; skills through working in unlikely groups; farming, gaming, and using smart-phone applications to overcome mental health and communications challenges; a network effect for social change among young people. The Catalyst fund provides small grants to Fellows who have developed an innovative solution to a social problem.

Strong ideas – not only those that receive grants – are helped by the expertise available through the panel, RSA staff and, above all, by our Fellowship at large for example through the RSA SkillsBank. We award grants of £1,000 to £2,000 in the first instance – with grants of £5,000 available upon successful delivery of the first outputs. In January, a panel with representation from Fellowship Council and senior RSA staff awarded grants to the following projects (subject to agreement of some conditions): LinkClick. The Third Sector Research Centre works to enhance knowledge through independent and critical research. In collaboration with practitioners, policy makers, and other academics, we explore the key issues affecting charities and voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives and mutuals. News The future of TSRC TSRC's bid to renew our core funding from the ESRC Large Centres and Grants competition has been unsuccessful.

Read more... Spotlight Unfolding tales of voluntary action What is the full story of third sector activity in communities struggling to manage tough economic and social challenges? This new monthly series will explore these issues and more, from the unique vantage point of TSRC's 'Real Times' project. Sign In. Global Tribal Network | A better world. Powered by women | Women's Social Leadership Awards - Women's Social Leadership Awards The 6th OGUNTE. The online application form will ask you to answer the following questions. NB once your submission is sent online, you will not be able to return to amend it What is your vision and what are your main objectives to fulfil this vision? 150 words max.Based on the work you have accomplished so far, what social impact goals have you set and how have you performed so far?

150 words max.How do you measure this social impact? *** You will also be asked to provide a link to a short video (2mn max) about your work or project, and a high resolution picture of yourself (as a nominee). The judges will look at how clearly the candidate demonstrates - IN THE APPLICATION FORM ONLY: Q 1: Vision and Mission Statements - Brief vision statement including values, purpose, and ultimate achievement in an ideal world. Q 2 and 3: Social Impact = the difference or change made as a result of the person carrying out their work.

Q 4, 5 and 6: Growth in Confidence = capacity to overcome obstacles and gain assurance. We are now enrolling women business #angels to support Make a Wave II, the pre-incubator for #women social entrepreneurs. #socent #impinv. Mother Eunice e Rosangela. | Ogunte | Women Social Innovators. Coup de froid sur les droits des femmes en Espagne. Street Chic: New Year (10 of 54) 17 January 2012 Jessica Bumpus WE'RE into a new year and it's time to start thinking about your wardrobe - and where you want to take it for 2012. Where better to look than the streets of London, Berlin and beyond? Our Street Chic snapper has been out and about capturing the coolest real-life winter looks. YOU SHOULD SEE: The photo blog shortlist... YOU SHOULD SEE: Last year's street chic highlights... Photos by Candice Lake. Ogunte Awards and things you ought to know.

Introduction to Three Sisters Care (Ltd) « Empathic Urbanite. Our new home, St George’s Old Town Hall in Cable Street, Shadwell, E1 In a sense, this should have been my first post, introducing the new business and explaining where it’s at. But that would have been boring. This post is less a public article and more a note to self, close friends and advisors on the progress of our nascent business, Three Sisters Care. As I become more proficient in using WordPress, I’ll work out how to put this into a different strand or create a timeline so that it can be followed independently. (If you know how to do this, please let me know.)

Without repeating the ‘About’ section too much, my sisters and I are in the process of starting a new company in the adult social care sector. There are many small privately owned care agencies all across the country and we will begin just like all the others. It is an aspiration solely held by me, the CEO of Three Sisters Care – I am humbly planning to create the John Lewis of the care sector. Like this: Like Loading... Google launches Women Entrepreneurs on the Web (WEOW) to help woman entrepreneurs increase online presence - The Economic Times. Indu Nandakumar, ET Bureau Feb 1, 2012, 05.20PM IST BANGALORE: Google, the search engine giant that offers Gmail, YouTube and other Google+ products, has launched ' Women Entrepreneurs on the Web ' ( WEOW), an initiative aimed at helping women entrepreneurs across India grow their online presence . The program will provide women entrepreneurs support on using various web-based technologies and eventually help them increase their outreach to the customer base, the company said in a statement.

WEOW is a 5 circle approach that starts with building an online presence and moves towards collaborating effectively, connecting with customers, promoting their organisations to then tracking and optimising their online presence. "We realised that they were true entrepreneurs who were not afraid to try new things, yet many were unaware of various products that can be used to leverage the full potential of the Internet... The Guardian - My CIC start up story - CIC Association. My start-up story: Amanda Palmer-Roye and Eco-Actif | Social enterprise network | guardian.co.uk. Throughout my life, I have always been interested in people and my passion for the led me to work locally. In 2002 I was asked to work on a DWP pilot for Eco-Actif, a department of the London Borough of Sutton.

This was to work with offenders and recovering drug and alcohol users to help them get back into employment and/or training. As it was a pilot I was able to create a comprehensive, tailor made programme which became one of the most successful DWP programmes in the London south area. In 2005 Sutton employed a new chief executive, and his first job was to make this whole department redundant. I arranged an appointment with the chief executive's office to ask if I could buy Eco-Actif – only to be told that I could only buy the name. As the, now relinquished, Sutton contracts were delivered by me and my colleagues, if he gave them to me, I would continue delivery immediately and none of the JCP customers would suffer because it would still be me delivering, saving them a lot of time.

TEDxCAPU-Donna Morton-The power of renewable energy. Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. Applications for the 2014 edition of the Awards are now closed.Selection is underway. The 2014 finalists will be announced early July on our website. In this section, find everything you need to know about the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards’ application process. Women entrepreneurs in the initial stages of development, in any country, of any nationality and operating in any industry are welcome to submit their application. Why Apply? “Just go for it! Birame Sock,Laureate 2010 for North America Discover why apply More details about the Application Process The Criteria Find the information about our eligibility and evaluation criteria. Criteria Frequently Asked Questions About the Application Procedure, the Eligibility Criteria and other questions.

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Tara Hunt is having a bit of a disconnect. Which is odd considering Hunt’s networked her rising star into the connected constellation of the social web for the greater part of the past 15 years. From the earliest days of online communities (hello, Geocities and dial-up modems!) , Hunt built or participated in all manner of Internet coffee klatches. She wrote the book on social currency--The Whuffie Factor-- from her experience leading grassroots social communities, which landed her a spot on Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech. That’s because Hunt’s more comfortable in supporting roles. So it was in the case of Buyosphere. On Learning When to Tune Out the Crowd Hunt launched the first beta version of Buyosphere with partners Jerome Paradis and Cassandra Girard 18 months ago. “I stopped everything,” Hunt recalls, and proceeded to spec out the details in an email to her partners.

On Crowdsourcing Your Resume Hunt’s got a deep well to draw from. On Being Agile With Conviction. Lopa Brunjes - Biochar Pioneer and Sustainability Advocate | Ogunte | Women Social Innovators. Make a Wave II by servane mouazan on Prezi. Marina Gorbis | ceo Institute For The Future | Ogunte | Women Social Innovators. Reese Fernandez: Founder of Filipino Social Enterprise Rags2Riches Provides Decent Work for Women | Ogunte | Women Social Innovators. Sarah Burke dies due to injuries sustained in Utah. SALT LAKE CITY -- Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah. Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29. She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the Park City Mountain resort. Tests revealed Burke suffered "irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest," according to a statement released by Burke's publicist, Nicole Wool.

A six-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury during a training accident Dec. 31, 2009. She was, Judge said, as committed to the grass roots of the sport -- holding clinics for youngsters and working with up-and-coming competitors -- as performing at the top levels. "She was a great, positive person for the whole team, the whole sport," said David Mirota, the Canadian team's high performance director.

Make a Wave Pre-Incubator- Fellow Rioch Edwards-Brown. Development of women - ASPIRE - coaching & development for women, seminars, speakers, events. The secret algorithm of women social innovators. Social enterprises are the cathedrals of today. They require huge amount of faith, resources and energy to be built, as what they supposedly deal with cannot be fixed instantly. The smartest among them trigger the growth of co-related networks and micro-economies, they amplify spiritual and cultural energy and gather masses. They are a shelter for ideas, people and resources and save many souls.

At their head, you will find many women social innovators. The most ingenious among them are extremely adaptive beings, able to connect to the most resourceful people and structures, in order to develop simple yet very smart and impactful routes to growth. If you want to show the same amount and quality of courage, competences, connections and confidence as these women, you will need to develop a great information processing ability that would help you optimise the route along which you will grow to reach necessary resources. To name just a few: Confidence is a volatile currency. Eco-Actif Services CIC.

Interviewed for Ogunte | Amanda Jones. Global Tribal Network | A better world. Powered by women | For Social Businesses and Impact Projects - For Social Businesses and Impact Proje. You are an experienced professional, intermediary, an advanced social entrepreneur or social "intrapreneur", making a positive social and/or environmental impact, through business or an intermediary organisations (Finance, Skills, Network) Gain a better understanding of what a new behaviour, mindset, and environment, mean for you and your organisation. Immerse yourself in the "WHY, WHO, HOW, WHAT" to set up good foundations for growth, leadership and knowledge management, for you or your team. Get an integrated offer of: project/business model, market and management reviewsocial and environmental impact measurement and/or protocol designcoaching and management developmentmentoring programme designnew social change network deploymenttrain the mentorsaccess to expert networksYou can choose from different support styles: consultancy, coaching, mentoring, for individuals or groups.

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Specifically, the Al-Mustaqbal Center for Women and Women Empowerment Organization (WEO), led by human rights activist Susan Arif Maroof, link the non-profit model to the community’s needs. The secret algorithm of women social innovators. Global Tribal Network | A better world. Powered by women | A Better World. Powered by Women - The T-shirt - A Better World. Powered by Women. The secret algorithm of women social innovators. Global Tribal Network | A better world. Powered by women | Jan '12: Women Social Innovators: The Annual Survey - Jan '12: Women Social Innova.

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