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2007 Global Social Venture Competition

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I just found out about a matching making blog for the 2007 GSVC, where social groups can link up with students who want to work on a business plan. Any graduate student interested in contributing to the build-out of a socially responsible business. The executive summary deadline for GSVC is January 17, 2007.

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This content has been driven by requests from the SEs themselves, looking for help in developing their leadership style and their organizations. Many of the SEs are senior, having been leading their organizations for longer than a decade, and many longer than that.

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Wrapping Up the 2007 Skoll World Forum

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Most of the plenaries were focused on inspiration and building the field as a whole. Their real challenges, not the ones they talk about when they are selling their organization! And, I know that academics need this kind of interaction: it's their career and passion. This year I think they got it right.

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High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise:

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An article of mine just appeared in the Social Enterprise Reporter, entitled High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise. Should be a great event (April 17-19, 2007). Many social organizations create valuable content, and can often reach greater mission success by leveraging that content.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world. The second principle is sourcing locally relevant content.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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Understanding Income Inequality

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I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? LIS is the institute that created and manages this giant database, which is called the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database.

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