In a radical break with tradition, here’s a Wednesday round-up for you of relevant news, views and opinion.
– First up, I’ve tried to capture a fair bit of Skoll, and post-Skoll coverage: that would be a links page on its own, though, so best viewed and checked out via our Del.icio.us bookmarks link at http://del.icio.us/SSE/Skoll which encompasses a pretty decent cross-section….
– A social enterprise business park as an Olympic legacy: sounds good. And most interestingly, put forward by someone who is a practitioner, not an umbrella org looking for funds; and we used Calverts for our last big printing job (highly recommended)
– When Muhammad met Liam (Yunus and Black): interesting conversation transcript
– A compare and contrast on social franchising (US- based) from Social Enterprise Reporter
– Decent piece on (social) entrepreneurship / government policy in HBR; incidentally, there is a piece in the current Stanford Social Innovation Review which suggests what the new US president (come on Obama!) should do in this field. More on this soon…
– Also in SSIR is a piece about the relationship between producitivity and impact in the non-profit sector; it’s called "More Bang for the Buck" which gives you an indication of where it’s coming from. I think I took more from this case study
– Big welcome to the first 4 UK Ashoka Fellows, and congrats to Ben Metz for pulling off a good event the other evening. The Fellows are Camila Batmanghelidjh, Al Harris, Bob Paterson, and Faisel Rahman.
– OTS has released a piece of research from Rocket Science on Social Enterprise Networks. I found this useful and informative, but I’m not sure if that’s only because I’m approaching sector-geek status. What the report does do, alongside give a good overview of regional and sub-regional networks, is emphasise the need for more peer-to-peer learning / networks….and wisely pulls out SSE as a case study. :0)
More soon, when the frenzy of the last few weeks calms itself…..do buy some extra reading in the meantime :0)
