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A week is a long time in social enterprise
Apr 4th
For the social entrepreneur and social enterprise aficionado, there are two main event seasons: the cluster around October / November (Good Deals, Social Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week etc), and the end of March extravaganza of the Skoll World Forum, its...
Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship links from January 2011
Jan 28th
It has been a busy start to the year, and it seems like that is the case for everyone. Certainly everyone I bump into seems to be working very hard indeed, as the end of March 2011 looms large....No different...
Is franchising the key to scaling social enterprise?
Nov 17th
The question most often posed about social enterprise in this Global Entrepreneurship Week (#gew) has been: how do we grow this movement, and how do we scale organisations + models that work? I had a stab at answering this over...
Residential report 2: inequality in depth
Oct 18th
One of the features at the residential last week was the appearance of expert witnesses speaking on particular topics (strategic planning, partnerships, inequality etc). We thought it would be useful to share these on the blog both for those students...
Social enterprise and entrepreneurship links from August
Sep 5th
Lots to do, lots to read, lots more to do.... My last post-holiday round-up seemed to go down well, so thought I'd do the same for August as I did for July. No particular rationale, just stuff I've found interesting...
Is a Social App Store just Toolkits 2.0?
Aug 19th
I was inspired to write by the latest issue of Third Sector magazine this week. Not a sentence I've written too often, perhaps, (tend to rely on it for news, rather than inspiration...) but there were three thought-provoking pieces in...
Partnerships: are you the Bono and Frank Sinatra of social enterprise?
Aug 18th
Been giving much thought to partnership of late. Whether this is due to celebrating my second wedding anniversary (gifts to SSE towers please...), I'm not sure. I think it was more from listening to the NPR All Songs Considered podcast...
Will a new toolbelt help social entrepreneurs?
Aug 11th
The SE Toolbelt is an online information platform aiming to provide social entrepreneurs with practical resources that have been developed by their peers. It boasts 1000 or so items of various shapes and sizes on its data base, and these...
Is trust the most radical and efficient thing we have?
Jun 30th
A little while back, I wrote a post about whether a trust-based society could help square the public service delivery circle: the idea being that, in a time of fewer resources but greater need, removing middling tiers of bureaucratic infrastructure...
Charlie Kalsi: social entrepreneur from Hampshire
Jun 23rd
It's always a pleasure to go out to the various franchises around the country and meet the social entrepreneurs that are moving their projects along, and seeking to change things. Our Hampshire SSE has been running since the autumn in...
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