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Sequel's Consignment Shop
Schools are always raising money for books, supplies, equipments, etc. The same is true for schools in Arizona’s Amphitheater School District.
However, what makes this school district unique is something I recently learned about while eating lunch at my most recent Northern Pima County Chamber of Commerce Luncheon.
The Amphitheater School District has implemented the principles of empowerment and Social Entrepreneurship to create a Cash Machine.
Instead of focusing on bake sales and car washes that only generate a few hundred bucks at a time. The schools in this district have forged alliances with each other and their community to start Sequels, an upscale Consignment boutique.
Sequels offers it’s clients the best in reused name brand fashion at reduced prices. Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Chicos, Hollister are just a few of the brands you’ll find on their racks.
Community members that like name brand clothes, love discounts and appreciate the idea of supporting area high schools shop at Sequels religiously.
This business model has Sequels shoveling in so much cash until they are in the process of looking for a larger location.
The money earned by Sequels will be used to design 21st century classrooms fully equipped with Smart Boards, projectors and internet capability.
Now this is what I call fundraising.
1. E-180
Ok, that’s us. We keep you posted on social entrepreneurship, consensual education and social media. News, fellowships, training programs, resources.
2. CSR Wire
CSRwire is the leading global source of Corporate Social Responsibility news.
3. Change.org – Social entrepreneurship
The social entrepreneurship blog @ change.org. Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.
4. Stanford Social Innovation Review
Strategies, tools and ideas for nonprofits, foundations and socially responsible businesses
5. Fast Company – Social Responsibility
Fast Company often features articles on social responsibility and social entrepreneurship. They also organize every year the Social Capitalist Awards. Along with the 45 world-changing nonprofits, they also honor ten companies not only striving to make a profit, but to also make a difference.
6. Social edge
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources. A Skoll Foundation initiative.
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.
8. Alltop : Social entrepreneurship
The best of blogs on social entrepreneurship, from Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.
The best of blogs on social good, from Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.
10. Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
11. Echoing Green
Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world. They provide seed money, in the early stage of a social venture.
12. Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Their main funding program is the Skoll Awards for Entrepreneurship
13. Tides Foundation
Since 1976, Tides Foundation has worked with donors committed to positive social change. They put resources and people together—strengthening community-based nonprofit organizations and the progressive movement through innovative grantmaking.
They identify the world’s leading social entrepreneurs: Over the past eight years, the Foundation has been selecting 20-30 social entrepreneurs annually from around the world into its network of leading social entrepreneurs. The social entrepreneurs are selected from more than 1000 candidates that apply every year either to a national “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” competition or directly to a regional selection of the Foundation.
The Reynolds’ Foundation funds two great social entrepreneurship fellowships : one for Harvard graduate students and one for NYU graduate students.
+ Unltd
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs – people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.
16. Net impact (Multiple locations)
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world. We offer a portfolio of programs to educate, equip, and inspire more than 10,000 members to make a tangible difference in their universities, organizations, and communities.
17. StartingBloc (Boston, New York & London)
StartingBloc’s curriculum is delivered through their signature program – The Institute for Social Innovation. The Institute is a two-month program anchored by four one-day conferences. They provide students and young professionals with the training, education, and networks necessary to turn any career into a socially responsible one.
18. Global Social Benefit Incubator (Santa Clara, US)
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™), a program developed by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society in partnership with Social Edge. It assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing business plans that enable their organizations to reach increasing numbers of beneficiaries.
+ School of Social Entrepreneurs (Multiple locations: UK, Australia)
The SSE runs practical learning programs aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organization simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
This list was published by CNN Money in 2007.
19. Babson College (Boston, MA)
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship is the hub for entrepreneurial activity at Babson. The center’s mission is to lead the global advancement of entrepreneurship education and practice through the development of academic, research, and outreach initiatives that inspire entrepreneurial thinking and cultivate entrepreneurial leadership in all organizations and society.
20. Columbia University (New York, NY)
Columbia offers the Social Enterprise program, where students develop a perspective on how to apply business skills to social enterprise endeavors and align personal and professional values in careers that result in social benefits to a broader community. The curriculum explores social enterprise within four focus areas: Public and Nonprofit Management; International Development and Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.
21. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
At the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, they believe the private-sector has a critical role to play in helping solve the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. They work directly with companies around the world to identify, understand, and capitalize on these competitive opportunities.
22. Duke University (Durham, NC)
A research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the thoughtful adaptation of business expertise.
23. Harvard University (Boston, MA)
Grounded in Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.
24. New York University (New York, NY)
The Satter Program in Entrepreneurship is to educate, challenge, and inspire social entrepreneurs to leverage intellectual, social, and financial capital resources with a focus on social change, innovation, and impact.
25. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Their Center for Social Innovation aims to inspire and educate social innovators, providing knowledge and ideas that strengthen the capacity of current and future leaders to champion social change.
+ Oxford Saïd Business School (Oxford, England)
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 2003 at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, to promote the advancement of social entrepreneurship worldwide. In addition to delivering innovative teaching programmes, the Skoll Centre has developed a portfolio of research which employs theory but that is also valuable to practitioners in the field.
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