social enterprise

Rick Aubry, President of Rubicon Programs, Inc. delivered an inspiring key note address to a recent gathering of all ZeroDivide community enterprises.  Rubicon is one of the most successful social enterprises in the country providing training and jobs to thousands of homeless and unemployed adult to work in competitive bakery and landscaping businesses.  Aubry, a long time successful entreprenuer provided some sage advice for ZeroDivide's budding social enterprises and challenge

Jaffa is 3 years old, highly photogenic, loves to be cuddled, and is the star of her non-profit organization's social enterprise venture.  She is also a koala bear. 

Tim & Jaffa Jaffa lives at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia.  Lone Pine is the largest and oldest Koala Sanctuary in the world, featuring not only over 130 koalas, but also a multitude of kangaroos, exotic birds, dingoes, crocodiles, lizards, and the occasional tasmanian devil or two.

On my list of New Year's resolutions is to spend a few more minutes a day in the blogosphere...here's what I'll be reading.

10th Annual SEA registration now open

ZeroDivide's blog now listed under Guy Kawasaki's new Alltop.com site.

ZeroDivide consultant Paul Lamb featured on KQED radio's "Perspectives"

Is it possible to create a socially responsible advertising marketplace? Well that's the goal of Mission AdWorks, an innovative new social enterprise looking to create a link between community based organizations and social enterprises looking to gain ad revenue from their websites and socially conscious advertisers looking to connect with specific communities.

This week, I was invited by Andrea Levere of CFED to speak with Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech and ZeroDivide boardmember, in a conversation on technology and community development at the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s board of directors meeting in San Francisco.

Jim had a characteristically enlightening story about the genesis of one of his projects. A few years ago, his then 14 year-old son had installed a music exchange program onto their home computer.

Thanks to NCG, northern California grantmakers get a generous dose of social enterprise inspiration.