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Skoll World Forum: Winning Hearts and Minds through Storytelling
A connecting thread between everything I saw at the Skoll World Forum was the power of well told stories to advance the goals pursued by social entrepreneurs. Following are my notes from a session that built on this challenge: "Winning Hearts and Minds".
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Skoll World Forum: Rushing the Social Change Agenda
The Skoll World Forum can be summed up as such: You can’t pack more content into one day, nor could have more a enthusiastic crowd of social entrepreneurs, social investors, social researchers and decision makers in one place at one time.My Skoll experience can be summed up in one word: rushed.
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Creative Design for Affordability at Cornell
I vividly remember the feelings of wistfulness and jealousy as I read the course description. I thought to myself, ?I wish Cornell had a class like that.? Well, now we do! Thanks to the vision, determination, (and yes, creativity), of two Johnson School MBA students, Jeff Gangemi and Charles Lo, Creative Design for Affordability...
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Skoll World Forum 2009: Challenges of Expansion Finance for Social Entrepreneurs
Philanthropy has too often remained trapped in the ’small is beautiful’ world of social innovation - while for-profit-investors have striven to avoid any taint of compromising returns for social goals. A growing set of trailblazers is mobilizing significant pools of capital to deploy for social impact.
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The Ripple Effect – To be Defined
The Ripple Effect. The session was moderated by Ian Goldin, Director of James Martin 21st Century School. Speaking at the panel were Ron Grzywinski (Chairman, Shorebank Corporation), Jeremy Hockenstein (CEO and Co-Founder, Digital Divide Data) and Marcia Odell (Director, WORTH, Pact Institute)
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Serving the Missing Middle, ANDE Marks its Official Launch
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs launched today at the Skoll World Forum. Finally, a trade association for the rest of us. The fact that ANDE brings $750M in collective funding - and a $1M innovation challenge fund - to the table demonstrates its seriousness.
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Skoll World Forum 2009: Opening Plenary
NextBillion.net will be at the Skoll World Forum 2009 through a team of Guest Bloggers. Vinay Nagaraju covered the opening plenary and the sessions that took place at the Sheldonian Theater. Here are his first impressions.
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Entrepreneurship for Survival at the Base of the Pyramid
For those of us living in developed countries, the idea of entrepreneurship is very romantic and idealistic. It’s often thought of in the vein of "Making your dreams come true!" and "You can change the world!" I would almost go so far as to say that entrepreneurship as we know it in the developed world is a luxury. Not so in the developing world.
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