Are you one? Yes.

May 10, 2008

“4 hours. 24 Films. A new way to see the world.”

Using the power of media to mobilize social change on a global level. Check out how you can participate!

Want to work with a nonprofit on a strategic level?
Want to learn more about the unique challenges nonprofits face and strategies that have been used to overcome them?
Want to learn about how consulting methods and tools can help make social sector organizations more effective?

New Sector Alliance is a nonprofit leadership development and consulting firm in Boston. New Sector works with other nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and consulting firms, to structure substantive, meaningful strategic planning projects and equip talented young leaders to complete them.

New Sector’s Residency in Social Enterprise Program is for recent college graduates and professionals with 1-3 years of work experience. Through this program, Residents help a nonprofit organization measure its impact, improve its operating practices or broaden its reach. At the same time, they join a class of like-minded, committed individuals to participate in various workshops and training events designed to foster their own professional development. People who join New Sector develop leadership and management skills that cut across sectors while they explore the ways they can positively impact their community.

The upcoming deadline for the RISE program is this Friday, March 28^th. Please send your application, a resume and cover letter, to Eileen Yang at rise@newsector.org. Guidelines for the statement of interest can be found at http://www.newsector.org/services/students/bachelors.php.

Please check out New Sector’s website: www.newsector.org for additional information. Also, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

The Swearer Center invites you to a special lunch presentation and
discussion on “Strategic Philanthropy and Social Change” with John
Kania, Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors, this coming
Tuesday, March 18, from 12:30-2:00 pm at the Faculty Club.

FSG, itself a nonprofit organization, has been a leader in working with
foundations, nonprofits, governments, and corporations to advance social
change, by providing consulting, evaluation, research, and the
development of new tools and initiatives.  For this session, John will
provide an overview of FSG’s work and engage in a discussion of projects
they’ve undertaken and broader trends in the field.

John has worked on scenario planning, adaptive leadership, change
management, and corporate social responsibility, in fields such as
international health, U.S. health care, U.S. education, and the
environment.  John has been published in places such as the Stanford
Social Innovation Review and The Journal of Business Strategy.

Space is very limited – please RSVP ASAP and no later than 9 am Monday, March 17, to Amy Doyle, amy_doyle@brown.edu.

The discussion will take place in the Kapstein Room at the Faculty Club.

For more background:
Info on FSG Social Impact Advisors: www.fsg-impact.org
Brief bio of John: http://www.fsg-impact.org/app/content/people/item/325

Lessons in Social Enterpise
Date: Tuesday, March 18
Time: 4-5:20
Location: MacMillan 115

Venkatesh (Venky) Raghavendra is currently the Chief Philanthropy Officer of the American India Foundation (www.aif.org) and works out of AIF’s New York office. He will share best practices in the social entrepreneurship field, drawing upon case studies from South Asia.

Prior to joining AIF Venky worked in Washington DC with the global citizen sector organization “Ashoka: Innovators for the Public”. While at Ashoka Venky promoted social entrepreneurship in India and several other Asian countries. He engaged leading business entrepreneurs in the U.S. to invest in social entrepreneurs and their innovations as Director for Global Partnerships with Asia. Earlier, in the late 80s and early 90s Venky co-founded an organization in the rainforests of South India to create livelihood opportunities for indigenous communities through eco-tourism and adventure-tourism. Through activities such as hiking, canoeing & rock-climbing Venky was able to build awareness about the rich but fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats of South India. He played an active role in replicating this new paradigm of community-owned eco-tourism enterprises across the country.

(Co-Sponsored by Brown South Asian Students Association)

We will  be having a meeting this week THURSDAY, 8PM, WILSON 104.

We will discuss:
-Harvard Business School’s social enterprise conference: getting money to subsidize the cost
-Working w/ local social enterprises, and potential opportunities
-Bringing Rhode Island entrepreneurs to Brown
-Job and internship opportunities

If you cannot make it, please e-mail brownsec@gmail.com if you’re interested in being involved in or attending:
-HBS Conference
-Local social entrepreneurship intiative
-Career Week
-Working with the Career Development Center
-Working with Alumni Relations
-Working with the Swearer Center
-Working with $$$
-Working with logistics
-any questions/concerns/comments/whatever

Doug Guthrie is a Professor of Sociology and a Joint Appointment with the Department of Management and Organization (Stern School of Business) at New York University.

This lecture was presented November 1, 2007, as the second installment of a four-part lecture series on “The Next Generation of Corporate Responsibility,” hosted by Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies

Rukesh compiled a list of video profiles of people who do really cool things in social enterprise. Check out the webpage here: Social Enterprise in Practice.