The support industry within the social enterprise ecosystem has adopted and adapted “traditional” schemes for supporting entrepreneurs. Incubators, accelerators and business plan competitions seem to dominate the scene. These approaches have proved to work for a certain type of enterprises and entrepreneur profiles. This panel will explore …
The International organization Peace Boat is a leading example of what it takes to create a sustainable project on a global scale that focuses on peace and sustainability. After 30 years of organizing global voyages for peace on a passenger ship that carries more than 1000 participants …
Creating resilient communities relies heavily upon recognizing then cultivating abundance in the face of adversity. When we work within a framework of scarcity, such as with vulnerable populations, we tend to focus on problems and solutions. However, when we expose the underlying abundance within communities, we are …
We all hear about the factory fires in Bangladesh, children in diamond mines and sex-trafficking in the US and abroad; but few of us actually change our every day lives to address these ills. How do we close the distance between the knowledge we have and the …