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If you or someone you know/serve through your nonprofit is interested in starting a business to do good in the community, you/they are especially invited to
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| Chris Miller |
Start Something: Be A Social
Entrepreneur -- Doing Good while Doing Well! Come learn about the growing
field of social enterprise from Chris Miller, CEO of the Mission Company L3C,
and a panel of experts who have helped social entrepreneurs grow in St. Louis. Find
out what it takes to get started, how some local social entrepreneurs have
earned success and where you can go for more information and advice.
In
2007, Chris joined Washington University in St. Louis’ Skandalaris
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. There, he helped develop the
community-based social entrepreneurship education program.
Panelists include Laurie Hauber,
project director for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Community Economic
Development Program, and Fred Domke, founder of Bridge Bread, a social
entrepreneurship initiative designed to help homeless persons be
productively employed and a 2014 winner of the Youthbridge Social
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition. Q&A. Because of the 9 am start-time, preregistration for this free event
is required. Call 314-539-0357 or email me to sign-up.
The fall Start
Something! workshop series is generously funded by Ms. Marilyn Bennett in
memory of LaFern Soldner.
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May 15 -YNPN Brown Bag on
Social Entrepreneurship 11:30 - 1, $10 for non-members, Lab 1500, 1500 Washington, Bring your lunch and
join this YNPN panel exploring different ideas and aspects of a social
entrepreneurship: Aimee Dunne Zander – Community Outreach Coordinator,
Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University; Chris Miller – Founder, The Mission Center and
Senior Lecturer, Brown School of Social Work at Washington University; Claire Wolff – Community Engagement Specialist,
Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, rsvp at www.ynpnstl.org
- Winners of the 8th annual Youthbridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition, through Wash U's Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Lutheran Foundation and Daughters of Charity Foundation were announced this month. They included nonprofits Independent Youth, Circus Harmony Flying Trapeze Center, ArchCity Defenders, Inc. and GoodMap. Find out more about the competition at www.youthbridge.org
- Check out one of these books from the G&FC collection of background reading on Social Entrepreneurship: Social Entrepreneurship; What Everyone Needs to Know by David Bornstein & Susan Davis; Transformational Philanthropy; Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits by Lisa M. Dietlin; the Power of Unreasonable People; How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World by John Elkington & Pamela Hartigan; Daughters of the Declaration ; How Women Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream by Claire Gaudiani & David Graham Burnett; Rippling by Beverly Schwartz: the Search for Social Entrepreneurship by Paul C. Light; or Succeeding at Social Enterprise; Hard-won Lessons for Nonprofits... by the Social Enterprise Alliance.
- Thanks to local fundraising author Carol Weismann who responded to our request for a copy of her hard-to-find Secrets of Successful Retreats by supplying us with additional copies of her Raising Charitable Children and Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes as well.
- Check out this year's new educational and financial support and opportunities for nonprofits available from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Wash U and Youthbridge Community Foundation at at www.ideabounce.com
- Labor Day last-minute alert: The St. Louis chapter of the American Association of Grant Prfessionals Sept. 6 meeting on How to Make an Ask Compelling on Both Emotional and Rational Levels, led by Melinda McAliney of Lutheran Foundation and Maryanne Dersch of 501 Creative Sept. 6 carry-in lunch, $15 for nonmembers at Central Reform Congregation, Call 618-493-9423 to make a reservation
