The School for Social Entrepreneurs

SSEs recruit, SSE Fellows win awards, SSE recruits...

2009-07-10T17:52:16+01:00

Just a brief Friday SSE news update to point out that: - Our Liverpool SSE is recruiting social entrepreneurs (see Activities and News), and our Hampshire, Devon and Yorkshire and Humber SSEs will soon. Keep your eyes peeled. Overseas, our...

Social media for social impact (for social entrepreneurs)

2009-07-07T15:52:15+01:00

A new handbook was released yesterday called Social By Social which is a great and practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact. I'd thoroughly recommend having a look at the book online, or ordering a copy for...

Consumerism gone mad

2009-07-06T11:42:00+01:00

Recently, after coming back to SSE as an intern for a few months (info at the bottom), I came across The Story of Stuff, a 20 minute web documentary hosted by "American critic of excessive consumerism" Annie Leonard. In the...

The transparency of social entrepreneurship

2009-06-30T19:20:57+01:00

A little while back, I blogged about why the (increasingly tedious) political expenses scandal in the UK was relevant to the realm of social entrepreneurship [see What the expenses scandal means for social entrepreneurs]. My point, largely, was about the...

Thursday round-up: inclusivity, iPhone, impact investing

2009-06-25T12:01:59+01:00

OK, round-up of recent news + links of interest time.... - Couple of great posts on PopTech about the inclusivity (or lack of) and MBA-focused shape of social entrepreneurship, particularly in the US. See Who's in the Social Entrepreneurship Club,...

Leaders of all ages

2009-06-19T16:47:49+01:00

The blog has been a little quiet of late as I've been travelling around, establishing some sort of weekly record of combined air and rail miles over the last week or so (Belfast, Beijing, Penzance and Nottingham). Highlights have included...

International social entrepreneurship

2009-06-02T15:19:39+01:00

Our focus of late at SSE has been pretty relentlessly on our existing and planned activities in the UK; following the government investment in the national network back in February, our Network team have been working hard with our regional...

Thursday round-up: CEOs, Clore, Kevin and Kiva

2009-05-28T18:17:49+01:00

It's been a little while since the last round-up, so here goes: - First up the big, breaking news is that Jonathan Bland is stepping down as CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition, moving to Finland with his (Finnish) wife....

Passion is important for social entrepreneurs, but what sort of passion?

2009-05-26T12:55:08+01:00

One of the things people talk about social entrepreneurs needing is passion. Although it's never entirely clear what is meant by that: something to do with being able to see it through the hard times (can't give it up because...

What the expenses scandal means for social entrepreneurs

2009-05-20T17:27:29+01:00

It was interesting to read today that the CEO of Barnardo's is going to publish his (and his senior management team's) expenses, on the back of the MP's expenses scandal. [NB - if you're an international / non-UK reader and...