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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges

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Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Engage people who are closest to the problem.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. I'm going to be green. I'm a personal believer that you can't teach someone to be an entrepreneur.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s good thing for solving complex social problems with innovative ideas. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students.

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20 New Words Every Leader Should Know

Eric Jacobsen Blog

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership: 70 New Year's.

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View every problem as an opportunity to grow 17. Teach something new to your team 24. Be a good role model 46. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Eliminate the cause of a mistake 16. Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18.