Social Entrepreneurship

Net Impact has partnered with the Pepsi Refresh Project to find mentors from the Net Impact network to help grant recipients maximize their impact. This is a great opportunity to use your business skills to help individuals, nonprofits, and businesses this summer.

SOCAP10 invites you to a night of great food, drinks and discussion with some of the East Coast Social Capital Market’s best on June 24. Co-sponsored by NY for Acumen Fund and Presumed Abundance, join one of the first players in the field, one of the new innovators in investing and the conference that serves as a platform for thought leaders in asking “What’s Next?”

StartingBloc invites you to its first BuildingBloc workshop of the summer on June 19. In this one day workshop, we will tackle how to make your ideas happen through transformative communication + conflict resolution, with plenty of dynamic conversations in between.

The Foundation Center presents “Meet the Grantmakers: Harnessing the Power of Social Impact Investing for Community Education” on May 19.

Net Impact NYC invites you to attend the Green Innovation in Business Network’s Solutions Lab on May 21, 2010 at Bloomberg in New York City. The Solutions Lab, presented by the Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Exchange and Ashoka, provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn from and with your colleagues about how to advance environmentally sound practices in your business while saving money and increasing profits.

On May 3, Impact NYC is participating in the NYC Symposium for Social Change and we want to see you there. Join us and meet other social impact investors, venture capital firms, emerging businesses, foundations and organizations serving the community.

One of the overarching topics for the evening was the future of philanthropy. I think there was a consensus that it’s an exciting time in the field and it will be interesting to see how some of the newer approaches evolve.

I wanted to share an opportunity that I think will resonate with the Net Impact community. Ashoka’s Changemakers (where I work) is hosting a competition with Green Mountain Coffee for organizations and individuals in the Northeast who are making an innovative impact in their communities. All of the details are on the site but I’ll pull out some of the prize highlights just for fun: – 3 competition winners will each be awarded USD $5,000 more »

On March 25th we welcome Tyler Anh. Tyler is the Community Manager for Changemakers.com (a division of Ashoka), an online community where social innovators can connect with their fans, to one another and to investors.

Join us on Thursday, March 11 for a speed networking happy hour event! You will have the opportunity to expand your network by connecting with other professionals in CSR, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, international development and non-profit management.