The Future of Social Entrepreneurship – November 29, 2012
“The Future of Social Entrepreneurship” is an exciting opportunity to hear two leading figures in the social entrepreneurship world (see description below)! To register for Nov 29th (6 – 7:30) event:
http:// futureofsocialentrepreneurship.eventbrite.com
DESCRIPTION:
Social entrepreneurship is reaching a tipping point. Rapid
technological advances and globalization, combined with the blurring
of boundaries between the business, public and social sectors, have
primed the ground for widespread social change. This is an
unprecedented opportunity for the social sector, businesses and
government to work together to effect solutions to some of the world’s
most intractable problems.”
What are the biggest challenges facing social entrepreneurs in the
current environment? What will be the tipping point to create an
“everyone a change maker” world? What are the future trends in social
innovation?
Join the conversation with David Bornstein and Bill Drayton, as we
discuss the future of social innovation — and what we can do together
to further the field.
Join the online conversation! Your ideas will feed into the event.
Tell us: What would the world look like if all entrepreneurs were
social entrepreneurs? Tweet us at @csisl with hashtag #FutureSocEnt
About Bill Drayton
As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill
Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a
global association of nearly 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs who
work together to create an “everyone a changemaker™” world.
Drayton has been a social entrepreneur since an early age — during
his years as an undergraduate at Harvard and a law student at Yale, he
launched a number of organizations, including Yale Legislative
Services and Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum
in the social sciences. In 1970, he began his career at McKinsey and
Company in New York. From 1977 to 1981, Mr. Drayton served as
Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
where he launched emissions trading (the basis of the Kyoto Protocol)
and other reforms. In 1981, while working part-time at McKinsey and
Company, he founded both Ashoka and Save EPA, the predecessor to
Environmental Safety. With the support that he received when elected a
MacArthur Fellow in 1984, he was able to devote himself fully to
Ashoka. In addition to his current role as Chairman and CEO of Ashoka,
Mr. Drayton is the chair of Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get
America Working!
Mr. Drayton has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career.
In 1996, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in recognition of his leadership in public service. In 1999,
Common Cause awarded him its Public Service Achievement Award. In
2005, he received the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation
Achievement Award and was selected as one of America’s Best Leaders by
US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In
2006, he was recognized as being one of Harvard University’s 100 “Most
Influential Alumni.” In 2007, he received the Duke University Center
for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship’s (CASE) Leadership in
Social Entrepreneurship Award, the University of Pennsylvania Law
School’s 2007 Honorary Fellow Award, and the Goi Peace Foundation’s
Peace Award. In 2009, he was named Honorary Fellow at Oxford’s Balliol
College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from
Yale University. In 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate from NYU,
as well as the Essl Social Prize, for his work creating and building
the field of social entrepreneurship. In 2011, he received Honorary
Doctorates from Babson College and Marquette University as well as the
John W. Gardner Leadership Award from Independent Sector, the World
Entrepreneurship Forum’s Social Entrepreneurship Award, and the Prince
of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation, Spain’s highest
honor. Most recently, Bill was recognized by the University of
Pittsburgh’s Johnson Institute with the Exemplary Leader Award and by
the Harvard Kennedy School with the Richard E. Neustadt Award.
About David Bornstein
David Bornstein specializes in writing about social innovation. He is
the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the
Power of New Ideas, which was described in The New York Times as “must
reading for anyone who cares about building a more equitable and
stable world.” David’s first book, The Price of a Dream: The Story of
the Grameen Bank, traces the history of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning
Grameen Bank during its first 20 years and describes the global
emergence of micro-finance. David received the 2007 Human Security
Award from the University of California’s Center for Unconventional
Security Affairs and the 2008 Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship
Award from the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
David Bornstein is a journalist and author who focuses on social
innovation. He is the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network,
a new initiative to spread and institutionalize the practice of
solutions journalism — rigorous reporting about creative responses to
social problems. He co-authors the popular “Fixes” column in The New
York Times, a touchstone for the emerging solutions journalism field.
He is the founder of Dowser.org, a blog that engages early-career
journalists to report stories about changemakers.
Mr. Bornstein has been an Avina Leader, a senior fellow at Civic
Ventures, a founding board member of VisionSpring, a member of the
Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda
Council on Social Entrepreneurship, and has received numerous awards
for his books as well as his work in the fields of social
entrepreneurship and human security. How To Change the World has been
published in 21 languages and was described by Nicholas D. Kristof in
The New York Times as “a bible in the field.” The Price of a Dream
played a key role building global understanding about micro-finance
and was described by the author Jane Jacobs as a “monumental work.”
Mr. Bornstein has spoken with hundreds of audiences, and participated
in seminal public events focusing on social entrepreneurship in
Canada, Mexico, the United States, France, Spain, Germany, England,
Ireland, Switzerland, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore, Taiwan
and China. He lives in New York.