Since the new year started, I’ve had the opportunity to hear two exceptional social entrepreneurs speak: in January Bill Strickland, who heads up the Manchester Craftsman Guild in Pittsburgh, spoke before a group brought together by the Surdna Foundation, and Cheryl Dorsey, who heads up Echoing Green here in New York, spoke as part of [...]
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SEQ-Social Entrepreneurial Quotient
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Strickland, Cheryl Dorsey, echoing green, Manchester Bidwell Corporation, social entrepreneur on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Japan 2.0: A Search for Meaning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Lehrer, daniel rosenblum, death by overwork, economics, Japan, Japan Society, karoshi, search for meaning, social entrepreneur on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the day, working in Japan meant working for the sake of nation-building. Japan was determined to put its economic house back in order. Legions of salarymen toiled. Rebuilding Japan into an economic juggernaut was reward enough.
But then the recession came. Salarymen still toiled. “But for what?” many asked. “Japan – let’s take a rest” was a slogan oft heard as the [...]
Civic Ventures’ Encore.org Launches Encore Career Finder
Posted in Civil Society, Improvisation, Innovation, career finder, civic ventures, collaboration, encore, social innovation, tagged career finder, civic ventures, social entrepreneur, social innovation on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The new Encore Career Finder, created in partnership with Simply Hired, lists thousands of openings at nonprofit, environmental, health care, education, social service and governmental organizations.
To read more about the Encore Career Finder, please visit http://www.encore.org/news/encore-career-finder.
To search for the Encore Career Finder, please visit http://encore.org/careers.cfm.
Echoing Green Announces 2008 Fellows
Posted in Civil Society, Innovation, change, collaboration, echoing green, fellows, social innovation, tagged echoing green, fellows, social change, social entrepreneur on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Echoing Green announced twenty-seven entrepreneurs as their 2008 fellows, one of its largest classes to date. The entrepreneurs, selected from a record pool of more than 1,450 applicants from eighty-three countries, will launch nineteen start-up organizations.
This year, for the first time in Echoing Green’s twenty-one-year history, more than half of the fellows are developing [...]
Social Entrepreneur Bill Strickland Speaks at Japan Society
Posted in Bill Strickland, Changemakers, Civil Society, Education, Innovation, Japan Society, Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Nana Watanabe, U.S.-Japan, architecture, change, chapter based organization, collaboration, communities, connectivity, creativity, design, future, storytelling, sustainablity, tagged Bill Strickland, Changemakers, creativity, design, Frank Lloyd Wright, Innovation, Japan Society, Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Nana Watanabe, social entrepreneur, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LECTURE SUMMARY
Changemakers: Make the Impossible Possible
February 27, 2008
SPEAKER
Bill Strickland, President and CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation; author, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
MODERATOR
Nana Watanabe, photographer and author, Changemakers: Social Entrepreneurs are Making a Difference and Changemakers II: Working as a Social Entrepreneur
Armed with [...]
Upcoming Event – Lecture: Changemakers: Make the Impossible Possible
Posted in Bill Strickland, Changemakers, Civil Society, Education, Improvisation, Innovation, Japan Society, Jazz, Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Nana Watanabe, U.S.-Japan, architecture, chapter based organization, collaboration, communities, creativity, design, storytelling, tagged Bill Strickland, Changemakers, creativity, design, Innovation, Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Nana Watanabe, social entrepreneur on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, February 27
6:30 pm
Japan Society (333 East 47th Street, New York, NY)
Over the past 30 years, Bill Strickland, a leading American social entrepreneur, has been transforming the lives of thousands of people through jobs training center and community arts programs at Manchester Bidwell. He and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adults the [...]
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