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Help Shape the Future of the Social Sector

The Future Leaders in Philanthropy Community, a part of the Changing Our World organization, is conducting a survey to gain a better understanding of the attitudes and expectations of those new to the field of philanthropy. 

Take their survey now and they’ll donate $1 to a Global Giving project. 

Changing Our World invites those with varying perspectives to participate—both new and experienced professionals, those working in traditional nonprofits, new social enterprises and corporate giving programs, and those who have an interest in or may have left the sector.

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Interesting initiative coming from The Blind Project called Biographe,  a new sustainable style brand that helps victims and survivors of the commercial sex trade in Southeast Asia.

They’re holding a design contest that runs until September 15, 2010.  You read stories of victims on their website, choose the story you want to represent, become their “biographer” by telling their story through design, and submit your entry. 

Winning designs will then be turned into t-shirts and sold, with profits being reinvested into the victims’ communities.  Check it out!

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The best way to combat poverty is to help each person make money and stand on their own.

Tadashi Yanai, Chairman and President of Fast Retailing, which owns the Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo.

“Japan’s casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Tuesday they would create a textiles company in Bangladesh to help poor women gain financial independence.

Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, plans to invest some 100,000 dollars to set up Grameen Uniqlo Ltd in October.

The new company will source materials and make garments in Bangladesh—including women’s underwear, school uniforms and blankets.

It plans to hire up to 2,000 local people within three years, drawn mainly from the eight million borrowers of Yunus’ ‘microcredit’ Grameen Bank, and train them to become financially independent by selling clothes.”

Read the official press release here. 

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New York Times has a great new business case study, “Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?“  Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman—and other business owners—talk about how Honest Tea can stay true to its brand while it tries to maintain its relationship with Coke. 

New York Times has a great new business case study, “Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?“  Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman—and other business owners—talk about how Honest Tea can stay true to its brand while it tries to maintain its relationship with Coke. 

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Bold Public-Private Venture Aims to Make Ore. City an 'Icon of Sustainability'

“The Oregon Sustainability Center, slated for construction at the edge of Portland State University’s downtown campus, will generate all of its electricity, consume only the rain that falls upon it, and process all of its wastewater. The ‘triple-net-zero’ building will have offices for businesses with an eye on the triple bottom line—economic, social and environmental sustainability—as well as space for municipal urban planners, nonprofit environmental groups, and university administrators, faculty and students.

‘We aspire to this driving Portland as an icon of sustainability,’ said Lisa Abuaf, a senior project manager with the Portland Development Commission, the city’s urban renewal agency. ‘At the same time, we want it to be something replicable, so that the knowledge base created by this building is exportable.’”

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Congratulations to Hello Rewind for winning the public vote in America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010.  Hello Rewind turns your old t-shirt into a custom laptop sleeve and supports new life for sex trafficking survivors by offering training and work.   

Congratulations to Hello Rewind for winning the public vote in America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010.  Hello Rewind turns your old t-shirt into a custom laptop sleeve and supports new life for sex trafficking survivors by offering training and work.   

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When you mix profit and social benefit and say that your company will pursue both goals, you are making life complicated for the chief executive officer. His thinking process gets clouded. He does not see clearly. In a particular situation where profit and social benefit need to be balanced, which way should the scales be tipped?
Muhammad Yunus in “Social Entrepreneurs Must Drop the Balancing Act”, an excerpt from his new book, Building Social Business.

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U.S. Lagging, Not Leading, Social Entrepreneurship

Very interesting article (and comments!) on the Harvard Business Review Blog “The Conversation” about why the U.S. needs to “spend less time and money training entrepreneurs and funding contests domestically [and] invest more in social entrepreneurs globally.”

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I think building a company is the best way to change the world, because it’s the best way to align the interests of a lot of smart people and a lot of partners to build something that’s great and that serves people. You can’t do that if you’re an individual because it’s just you and there’s no one to align, and you can’t do it if you’re a nonprofit because you have no resources and you’re constantly out trying to raise money instead of generating it and being self-sufficient.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook in an interview for Inside Facebook

His sister, Randi Zuckerberg, works on Creative & Buzz Marketing, Politics, and Social Change at Facebook, and provides a lot of support for nonprofits.  Interesting.  How do you react to this comment?

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