Social Finance Forum 2012 failure panel Nobody likes failure. The associations aren’t pretty: loss, disappointment, bankruptcy. Admitting failure in social finance is particularly taboo. In a space still fighting to establish legitimacy, few social entrepreneurs...
As David LePage took the stage on Wednesday evening at the Social Impact Purchasing Summit in Vancouver, he comfortably set a conversational tone for the summit. I felt like a welcome guest to a difficult conversation many small business owners and socially conscious...
As mentioned in an earlier post, this year’s TEDxToronto saw an impressive group of speakers working to achieve Alchemy. In their effort to “bring ordinary elements together to make something extraordinary,” SEE Change was particularly inspired by...
As mentioned in an earlier post, this year’s TEDxToronto saw an impressive group of speakers working to achieve Alchemy. In their effort to “bring ordinary elements together to make something extraordinary,” SEE Change was especially intrigued with...
When you hear the word “alchemy” what do you think of? I remember my first “taste” of alchemy. I was on a travel assignment in Ottawa three years ago, searching for the city’s most newsworthy culinary establishments. I found a hands-down...
As anyone who has worked to urge behavior change will tell you, people can be stubborn. Resistance to change is something we all have in common, but in the developing world, there are added challenges – like families with limited financial resources and long-held...
