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What Matters Now - Inspiring Ideas for 2010

“What Matters Now” is a free ebook that Seth Godin has developed with over 70 great thinkers. What I like the most about these micro-essays is that they’re very easy to read and they encourage you not only to think outside the box, but to look at the world beyond yourself and your immediate circle.

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“Social Entrepreneurship is stupid.” according to Penelope Trunk

I was quite surprised to read this statement from Penelope Trunk, founder of Brazen Careerist today. Let’s skip the fact that it’s really stupid to assume a company’s corporate citizenship level simply by looking at a single factor (the presence of a ‘green initiative’) and jump straight into the comment about social entrepreneurship.

The heart of [...]

$50M Social Innovation Fund Approved

Good news for social entrepreneurship and the development world last week; the US House-Senate has approved $50M of funding for the very first social innovation fund!

Looking at some of the comments on the Chronicle of Philanthropy site it seems that people are disappointed that funding for volunteer and non-profit capacity building programs has been cut [...]

What you resist will persist

I like charts.

As I migrated the blog over, I couldn’t help but notice the decline in the frequency of my posts over the last couple of years. Then, I saw a pattern. Since March ‘07 I’ve been tracking the relative progress of a particular situation in my life on a monthly [...]

... and we're back!

If you’re here for the first time, welcome! If you’ve arrived from my old blog, welcome back and I’d love to hear your feedback on the new design/layout/concept (or anything else you feel like telling me)!

I’m hoping this blog will have a little more focus than the last one, but don’t worry, you’ll still be [...]