SocialEntrepreneurship

This is just a quick reminder to RSVP for Cheryl Dorsey's talk next month at New York University.  She's speaking March 3, 2009 at 12pm as a part of the Reynold's speaker series on "Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century."

The event will take place in Shorin, Room 802 at the NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South.  All are welcome (including those outside the NYU community), but space is limited and an RSVP is required: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228CAUV8XLS

 

Cheryl Dorsey, Echoing Green’s President, was interviewed on the radio program A World of Possibilities last week by host Mark Summer. Cheryl was part of an all-star panel for the “Foundations as Catalysts” series that also included 1995 Echoing Green Fellow Katie Redford, founder of EarthRights International. Cheryl covered a wide range of topics including the cross-fertilization of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, the challenge of measuring social ROI, and the key to selecting successful Echoing Green Fellows.

As we're new to the world of blogging, we thought we'd provide everyone with some of our favorites that we rely on for great content about social change. Here are our Top Seven Social Entrepreneurship Blogs:

In June 2006, Bill Gates announced he was stepping down from his full-time role at Microsoft and shifting his focus to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. When the world's richest entrepreneur decides to take a step in the nonprofit direction, he may be onto something.

In the last decade, a generation of social entrepreneurs has become increasingly visible by creating self-sustaining businesses.