The Social Innovators Collective offers world-class educational programming for early stage social entrepreneurs, nonprofit founders and individuals working on social impact projects. Our mission is to nurture, shape, and train the next wave of changemakers so that they can demonstrate measurable social impact and achieve financially sustainability.
This February we will launch the Social Good Guides, project three years in the making. They are a series of 20 small-business guides created to support early stage social entrepreneurs, nonprofit founders and individuals working on social impact projects. The goal of the guides is to centralize general knowledge and equip changemakers with the essential small-business skills a founder needs to be familiar with in order to achieve success during their startup year. Each guide has been authored by a distinguished professional with sector expertise in the social impact space, the covers designed by a seasoned graphic designers, and brought to life by a dedicated team of volunteers.
For more information: www.socialgoodguides.com
WINTER/SPRING INTERNSHIPS
We are currently looking for interns and volunteers to help us with the robust outreach campaign we’ve designed for the Social Good Guides. We will be accepting people on a rolling basis. For more information: click here.
SPRING CONFERENCES
Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, April 15 – 17 Oxford, England
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the impact of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage and large-scale social change.
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99U Conference, April 30 – May 1 New York, New York
The goal of the 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Providing road-tested insights on how to make your ideas happen. We bring together some of the world’s most productive creative visionaries and leading researchers to share pragmatic insights on how ideas are brought to life.
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The Aspen Ideas Festival, June 25 – July 4 Aspen, Colorado
The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation’s premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times. The mission of the Festival is to create a stimulating and invigorating convocation that links some of the foremost thinkers in the world today with civically-minded leaders in business, the arts, politics, sciences, humanities, and philanthropy who will share ideas, raise provocative questions, and inspire thought to action.
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CLASSES + WORKSHOPS
We are in the process of designing courses based on the Social Good Guides. The titles include: Idea To Launch; How To Start a Nonprofit or Social Enterprise; Funding Your Startup Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Funding For Long-Term Sustainability; Business Plans and Planning for Social Enterprises and Nonprofits; What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?; Operations: An Overview; A Legal Primer for Changemakers; Accounting and Taxes for Social Enterprises; Evaluation + Impact Assessment; Marketing: Lean In and Control the Lane; Branding + Identity; Building Your First Website; Why Great Design Matters; Publicity: Getting the Word Out; What You Don’t Know About Social Media; and How to Find a Job in the Social Impact Space. Three additional Social Good Guides are in the works and will be available by June 2015: Leave Your Cape at Home: The Importance of Cultural Sensitivity; Social Good Business Models; and The Power of Storytelling.
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