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My Quest to win Ideablob
In: Funding| Social Enterprise
31 Aug 2009As some of you know, CommuniTeach is currently a finalist for the Ideablob competition. Whoever has the most votes by tonight at 12:59 CST will receive $10,000 to fund their idea. We are currently in third place, and every vote counts. Please spend thirty seconds voting for us at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/6091-CommuniTeach-learning-platform
Below is our journey so far…it’s [...]
Good Capital: A little return, a lot of good
17 Jul 2009Life as a social venture start-up like CommuniTeach can be tricky, particularly when you’re contemplating your need for capital while in a non-profit/L3C/for-profit identity crisis. On the non-profit side, traditional grants and foundations don’t exactly jive with your social entrepreneurship sensibilities and desire for unique models of revenue generation and financial sustainability. But the idea of [...]
NPR had an interesting article yesterday about The Extraordinaries, a new social entrepreneurship start-up that enables people to micro-volunteer through their mobile phones. I go back and forth about this concept, in part because it collides with many pre-concieved notions about my favorite types of social ventures.
1. I think that volunteering should be about building [...]
Portrait of a Social Entrepreneur
30 Jun 2009I suppose I throw around the phrase “social entrepreneur” an awful lot without actually explaining what it means. The Skoll Foundation is better at defining things than I am, and they recently made a neat little video profiling a few social entrepreneurs and summarizing the field as a whole. Plus its only 9 minutes, which is [...]
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