Announcing: Prize draw winners -participation in EAR Market Research survey
Congratulations to Selena Flood of Collective Footprints, and to Didi LeMay a childrens’ author -both people were chosen from the Prize Draw from the pool of participants of our Market Research study.
Collective Footprints is a community of people working to change the world through social enterprise, holistic health, arts and local food. You can see more about them here or contact Selena directly.
Didi is an author of childrens’ books that educated kids about the importance of environmental stewardship. You can learn more about her here or contact Didi directly.
A special thanks as well to everyone who participated !
Photos from Dec 1st Roundtable
The roundtable on “Effective Communications -Leading with Your Why” was a resounding success.
Eighteen curious entrepreneurs attended a brainstorming session with business experts to learn how to communicate with customers using their business’ passion.
Below are some photos from the event:
Photos are copyright-protected and not to be reproduced without permission of Rudo and Kate Photography.
Announcing Consultant Roster set for Dec 1st Roundtable
The following business experts/consultants have been selected to support social entrepreneurs at the roundtable event:
- Harvey Weisfeld, Wiser Solutions
- Linda M. Eales, All One Wholistic Clinic
- Tim Harris, Star Return
- Arie Opps, Illuminate Marketing
- Selena Flood, Collective Footprints (Guest Entrepreneur by special invitation)
(bios for 1-4 available here):
Selena Flood’s Bio:
Selena Flood is a business matchmaker and community builder for the growing green and conscious community. Collective Footprints, the social enterprise she founded this year is becoming a hub for change-makers to connect and collaborate through consulting, events, workshops, and public outreach campaigns. She works with eco-preneurs, social innovators, holistic pratctioners, and artists of all kinds who are empowering themselves to make the world a better place through authentic and sincere business practices. When she isn’t talking business, she loves to dance anywhere there is music, climb trees in parks and playgrounds, or go on walking adventures with her friends.
Website: www.collectivefootprints.ca
Roundtable on Effective Communications –Leading With Your Why
WHAT it’s all about….
At the Roundtable, we’ll be discussing ways entrepreneurs can attract their customer by speaking from the perspective of your beliefs and passions –the “Why”: of your business (as opposes to “What” or “How)”
Simon Sinek, author, instructor and advertising exec, eloquently reinforces this point in his ground-breaking book “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action.”
See one of the key concepts from his book in a Ted Talk’s video. The video is here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
We will also be showing the video at the event (beginning).
About Simon Sinek,
Born in the UK, He has lived in 4 countries, and has extensive work experience in the advertising sector. He has appeared on both MSNBC and National Public Radio.
He is also quite active in the not-for-profit sector as well. He works with Count Me In, an organization committed to helping one million women-owned businesses reach a million dollars in revenues by 2012, and he serves on the Board of Directors for Danspace Project, an organization that fends for advancing art and dance. He also teaches a graduate-level class in strategic communications at Columbia University.
Announcing Book Launch – June 22nd: “The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future”
The Sustainability Network is hosting a Book Launch:
Andrew Heintzman’s: “The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future”
When Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 8:00 AM
Where: Ground Floor, 215 Spadina Ave., Toronto
In "The New Entrepreneurs," author and venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman introduces
us to a burgeoning class of entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the green-tech
economy. From forestry to water to agriculture and oil, he maps out the leading
enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, high-profit, clean-tech products and systems
for export to a vast and rapidly expanding global market. "The New Entrepreneurs" offers
a fresh and visionary approach to redesigning our current economic system, one that uses
the powerful forces within capitalism to act as a catalyst for change — and profit.
Andrew Heintzman is a co-founder of Investeco. Andrew is also the Chair of the
Premier’s Climate Change Advisory Panel. He sits on a number of corporate boards
including Lotek Wireless, Triton Logging and Horizon Distributors. In addition, he is on
the board of directors of the Tides Canada Foundation, the Steering Committee of
Sustainable Prosperity and was the Chair of the Sustainability Network. Andrew is coeditor
of a number of books about sustainability.
Andrew will be interviewed by Alternatives’ Executive Editor Nicola Ross. Nicola is an
award winning writer and author.
Admission is $20. Please register online at http://sustainabilitynetwork.ca
Article: How not to raise money for non-profits:
Star investigation: The high cost of sports charities
Published On Sat Apr 24 2010
By Robert Cribb Reporter
More than half the money raised in the name of charity by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment was spent on fundraising and administration last year. And the story is much the same at many professional sports foundations across Canada, a Star investigation has found. Lavish gala dinners, golf tournaments and lotteries held by Canadian NHL club foundations routinely eat up between 40 and 65 per cent of revenues — and as much as 80 per cent in the case of the Edmonton Oilers’ foundation in 2008 — intended for disadvantaged children and community development.
Link: Article
Article: BC-Based Private Equity fund helping green companies
Title: Investing for change: A new capitalism, coloured green
(Excerpt below)
It’s not the typical language a
private-equity fund uses to stoke interest among potential investors:
“The 21st century will see dramatic retooling of the ways we live
together on the planet.”
“There must be a philosophical reinvention of where and how capital is
deployed.”
This is a new capitalism, coloured green, as envisioned by Vancouver
investors Joel Solomon and Carol Newell, scions of American fortunes,
his from Tennessee real estate and hers from Newell Rubbermaid. They’ve
spent the past 15 years on the West Coast, putting their inherited cash
behind small companies, to make money and to make the world a better
place: “investing for change.”
For more than a decade, Renewal Partners Co. only invested the duo’s
money — $7.1-million — in startup companies such as Happy Planet Foods
and New Society Publishers.
