How the SE101 resource came to be
This collection of links and resources arose from a chance conversation between Dagmar of d. connects in Berlin, Alban a French business school student traveling the world to identify opportunities to leverage technology for social good, and me (Kate), an interdisciplinary pollinator who avidly follows the social enterprise market. After a two hour whirlwind of ideas and information sharing about who is doing what, where to find them, cool projects that have succeeded, tips for global enterprise, we closed Peace One Day's 10th Anniversary party...
I put my programming & social entrepreneur experience into action to build a platform for social entrepreneur to exchange with the hope of connecting passionate people to expand the power and impact of our collective action. Alpha version 0.1 (forums on a squarespace site: moxy2be June 2008) --> Alpha 0.2 (ning: December 2009) --> Alpha 0.3 (leadership & social enterprise primer content here, for now) & the social enterprise ethics collaborative platform under development ---> www.socentethics.com
Vision
A Global Sustainable Leadership Circle of social entrepreneurs and social change agents who lead sustainable, inspired change with a commitment to Excellence, Transparency, Humility, Inclusiveness, Courage, Service in every action.
Disruptive technology and social enterprise promise to change fundamentals about people, interactions, and society. This human terrain differs from classic business and purely economic transactions. While social enterprises may unleash innovation, eliminate inefficiencies, and promote the common good, they may also threaten the status quo prompting fear, anger, resistance. Engaging social change may threaten identity, power and privilege at many levels, and even the best of intentions may lead to unintended consequences that jeopardize visions for empowerment, hope, and change.
This resource aims to build a community to ask what are the best leadership paradigms, practices, and formulas for success in the social change domain. A social enterprise changes the metrics of success. How do you measure success? What practices have succeeded? How can we, as leaders of social enterprise and social change, optimize the impact of effort for sustainable change? What models do people have for leading a new paradigm, an inclusive approach, a collaborative way for social change? This platform connects like-passioned people in order to harness wisdom to promote sustainable leadership in engaging social change.
Mission
Our mission is
.... to strengthen the global network of people engaging change with sustainable leadership practices by connecting people who are passionate about social change.
....to build a hope-filled, inclusive world for tomorrow's children by creating an "exchange" for sharing, collaborating, and expanding experience-based knowledge, ideas, skills, resources for impact-focused action by social entrepreneurs.
Intention
The time for change has come. Creating change leads to new problems; we see those problems as opportunities. Our intention is to see that new problems catalyze new strategies for addressing the problems that lead to innovative solutions. Changemakers work with passionate determination that requires attention and diligence to maintain their fire. We believe that when unleashed the human capacity for innovation and creative problem solving is limitless.
The intention is to create a forum for social change leaders to light their own torches to let their passion shine and to expand the creative flow for problem solving among leaders actively engaging social change.
Leaders of social change may benefit from:
Transparent Engagement
The aim is to create a transparent, user driven resource. Editing will follow these guidelines. Requests for clarification are welcome. This note will be modified to transparently explain decisions if issues arise.
Disclaimers
This is a resource page based upon resource that have been found, experienced or recommended. Inclusion does not necessarily endorse programs and projects listed.
I put my programming & social entrepreneur experience into action to build a platform for social entrepreneur to exchange with the hope of connecting passionate people to expand the power and impact of our collective action. Alpha version 0.1 (forums on a squarespace site: moxy2be June 2008) --> Alpha 0.2 (ning: December 2009) --> Alpha 0.3 (leadership & social enterprise primer content here, for now) & the social enterprise ethics collaborative platform under development ---> www.socentethics.com
Vision
A Global Sustainable Leadership Circle of social entrepreneurs and social change agents who lead sustainable, inspired change with a commitment to Excellence, Transparency, Humility, Inclusiveness, Courage, Service in every action.
Disruptive technology and social enterprise promise to change fundamentals about people, interactions, and society. This human terrain differs from classic business and purely economic transactions. While social enterprises may unleash innovation, eliminate inefficiencies, and promote the common good, they may also threaten the status quo prompting fear, anger, resistance. Engaging social change may threaten identity, power and privilege at many levels, and even the best of intentions may lead to unintended consequences that jeopardize visions for empowerment, hope, and change.
This resource aims to build a community to ask what are the best leadership paradigms, practices, and formulas for success in the social change domain. A social enterprise changes the metrics of success. How do you measure success? What practices have succeeded? How can we, as leaders of social enterprise and social change, optimize the impact of effort for sustainable change? What models do people have for leading a new paradigm, an inclusive approach, a collaborative way for social change? This platform connects like-passioned people in order to harness wisdom to promote sustainable leadership in engaging social change.
Mission
Our mission is
.... to strengthen the global network of people engaging change with sustainable leadership practices by connecting people who are passionate about social change.
....to build a hope-filled, inclusive world for tomorrow's children by creating an "exchange" for sharing, collaborating, and expanding experience-based knowledge, ideas, skills, resources for impact-focused action by social entrepreneurs.
Intention
The time for change has come. Creating change leads to new problems; we see those problems as opportunities. Our intention is to see that new problems catalyze new strategies for addressing the problems that lead to innovative solutions. Changemakers work with passionate determination that requires attention and diligence to maintain their fire. We believe that when unleashed the human capacity for innovation and creative problem solving is limitless.
The intention is to create a forum for social change leaders to light their own torches to let their passion shine and to expand the creative flow for problem solving among leaders actively engaging social change.
Leaders of social change may benefit from:
- practices for self care for sustainable leadership
- tools to include resistors in planning
- strategies to allow people to light their own torch breaking cycles of inequity/oppression
- capacity building to face others' fear with courage while embracing the fear with compassion
- resources for inclusive leadership methods that embody social change
- guidance to lead in a manner that models the ideals of the social change we seek to create
Transparent Engagement
The aim is to create a transparent, user driven resource. Editing will follow these guidelines. Requests for clarification are welcome. This note will be modified to transparently explain decisions if issues arise.
- Excellence: Built by a social entrepreneur/ social change agent for social entrepreneurs and social change agents, this resource's goal is to be practical, relevant, and inspiring. Your collaboration, input and participation are essential in this process. I see excellence as a learning process- daring to push the margin of our potential to optimize what we do. I welcome your feedback and value your suggestions.
- Trustworthiness: decisions about what to include, what not to include may arise. For now, the aim is to share resources that have crossed my radar as a prompt for you to share your favorite resources. If other issues arise, I am committed to addressing them transparently.
- Humility: this exchange is intended as a dialogue and resource for interlearning. The hope is to build a community of like-passioned people asking similar questions and open to learning. This is not intended as a place ideological dogmatism. The ideas and strategies shared come from our knowledge, experience, and building on the wisdom of others... This platform serves as a resource to light one's own torch with tools for sustainable leadership of social change.
- Integrity: congruity and values alignment are core commitments; the means is the end and this platform seeks to model what it values and hopes to create: respect, excellence, transparency, humility, congruity, inclusiveness, collaboration, service.
- Commitment: this resource will be updated regularly, every few days. The hope is to grow a global community of editors to support more regular engagement.
- Service: this platform is a service project and a non-commercial resource listing.
- All original content and work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Disclaimers
This is a resource page based upon resource that have been found, experienced or recommended. Inclusion does not necessarily endorse programs and projects listed.