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SEA Member Highlight
Housing Works Bookstore Café celebrates their 10th Anniversary
Housing Works Bookstore Café is a unique destination in both retail and social entrepreneurship. A beautiful space in a historic downtown NYC building with high ceilings and mahogany-paneled bookshelves, the bookstore opened its doors in 1998. Since then, everyone from SoHo shoppers to Housing Works’ clients to world-famous literati climb classic spiral staircases to browse for books, then curl up in comfy chairs with coffee and a homemade cookie. The best part? Every dollar from every customer goes to support Housing Works’ mission to end homelessness and AIDS.
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NpEnterprise Highlights Highlights is the newsletter of the npEnterprise Forum -- SEA's official listserv. This edition presents selections from a recent thread on facilitating change in an organization transitioning to a social enterprise.
Events
5/30 - Oakland, CA
Achieving Sustainability in the Social Sector - Begin to leverage existing entrepreneurial and enterprising strengths in your nonprofit organization toward more sustainable future during this one-day workshop. Presented by MissionWise and the Social Enterprise Group. Email for more information
6/3 – Baltimore, MD
Social Enterprise Open House Meet other nonprofit executives while learning about the many resources and services available through the University of Balitmore's Social Enterprise Collaborative and the newly formed Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the SEA.
6/4 – Seattle, WA
Start or Grow Your Green Business - A Sustayne Introductory Workshop for individuals and businesses who are seeking to make an impact in the sustainability market, whether through a product or service. Presented by the Social Enterprise Group. Email for more information
Earned Income Strategies: From Assessment to Implementation
The Grantsmanship Center presents intensive, three-day workshops on how your nonprofit can generate increased unrestricted and diversified revenue in a manner that strengthens mission and builds capacity by building on your team's existing activities and core competencies. This practical workshop includes completing an internal assessment and implementation plan specifically for your organization. The instructors are Rolfe Larson and Michael Whitehead-Bust. Upcoming workshops include: New Orleans (Sept 15-17), near St Louis (Sept 29-Oct 1), Los Angeles (Oct 13-15), near Trenton NJ (October 27-29), and Williamsburg VA (Nov 10-12).
Visit our online calendar for more social enterprise event information.
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- SEA News & Resources
- L3C Legislation Passes in Vermont
- What are you searching for?
- Public Policy Survey
- Other News & Resources
- Advancing Social Entrepreneurship
- Job Opening
- Help Create a Chronology of the Social Enterprise Industry
- One Third of Appalachia Nonprofits Operate Revenue Generating Enterprises
- When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission
- 2008 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation
- Mind Trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
- Events
- Social Entrepreneurship Intensive, Waterloo, ON
- Achieving Sustainability in the Social Sector, CA
- Start or Grow Your Green Business, Seattle, WA
- Earned Income Strategies: From Assessment to Implementation
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1. L3C Legislation Passes in Vermont
The Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Mannweiler Foundation Inc. in association with Social Enterprise Alliance, the Council on Foundations, Ashoka and Americans for Community Development are pleased to announce that the Vermont Legislature has passed the L3C bill. L3C or "low-profit, limited liability company" is a new form of limited liability company which combines the best features of a for-profit LLC with the socially beneficial aspects of a nonprofit. As of May 1, 2008 the L3C is available for use anywhere that LLC’s are recognized. For more information visit the Americans for Community Development website or read about the legislation in the Burlington Free Press
2. What are you searching for?
There is good chance that you will find the answers you need by using the Directory page of the SEA Resources section. There are links to SEA’s Speaker Directory, the SEA Member and Consultant directories, a funding directory, a database of case studies on scaling social impact and others.
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1. New Report: Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies
2. Job Opening: Zero Divide, San Francisco, CA
ZeroDivide (formerly The Community Technology Foundation) is seeking a Director of Community Investment with a proven track record of managing a successful team in a social enterprise, business unit, and/or philanthropic program. Paid experience in a senior position in one or more of the fields of: social enterprise, venture philanthropy, and/or technology is preferred. ZeroDivide invests in community enterprises that leverage technology to benefit people in low-income and other underserved communities. Complete job description
3. Help Create a Chronology of the Social Enterprise Industry
The social enterprise industry is rapidly evolving and The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, a member of SEA, has just released a first draft of the industry’s history entitled “Evolution of the social enterprise industry: A chronology of key events.” The chronology is an attempt to collect in one place the key events from the past 30 years that have helped shape the industry thus far. It is not meant to be a chronology of social enterprises themselves but rather to begin identifying important events in the surrounding eco-system that have led to the emergence of an industry replete with investors, academics, consultants, media watchdogs and others. Numerous people throughout the industry have contributed to the first draft, but The Institute needs additional help preparing an expanded version for publication this summer. Please email the following to institute@orbis.net: Photos and/or images you would like to see included in the chronology; information about missing events; and corrections to the first draft (including more detailed annotations). The deadline for submission is June 1. A revised chronology will be posted on the SEA Website July 1 and updated annually.
4. New Study Finds One Third of Appalachia Nonprofits Operate Revenue Generating Enterprises
5. When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission
Now a new style of “hybrid” technology organization is emerging that is trying to define a path between the nonprofit world and traditional for-profit ventures. SEA Member Rebecca Masisak, Co-chief Executive of TechSoup and SEA Board Chair Jim Fruchterman, President of Benetech are featured in this article. From The New York Times
6. Call for Applications: 2008 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation
7. Call for Applications: Mind Trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship |
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