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April 2016
New start-up guide for budding social entrepreneurs
A new guide has been published for those interested in starting a social enterprise, like Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant chain, the Big Issue and Cornwall’s Eden Project. The UK is home to 68,000 social enterprises [...]
Building better lives Social enterprise in schools: a resource pack for teachers
This resource pack provides ideas for discussion, activities and a framework to help you use social entrepreneurship as an engaging project in your school. It is designed to encourage students to develop an awareness and [...]
Platform Cooperativism: A Global Movement on the Rise
Last November, the Platform Cooperativism conference -- a coming out party for the cooperative Internet -- took place in New York City, initiated by Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz. http://www.shareable.net/blog/platform-cooperativism- a-global- movement-on- the-rise
What are we building communites or networks
Rising Voices, the outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by providing training, resources, microgrant funding, and mentoring [...]
Learn to love networking
"I hate networking.” We hear this all the time from executives, other professionals, and MBA students. They tell us that networking makes them feel uncomfortable and phony—even dirty. https://hbr.org/2016/05/learn-to- love-networking
5 TOOLKITS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Summary of Acumen about 5 tool kits for social entrepreneurs. If you’re running a social enterprise, or about to start one, welcome to the community. It can be hard to know where to begin or [...]