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Lots to catch up on in the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship world....so without further ado: - More Voice 09 reaction from Patrick Butler at Society Guardian, Eastside Consulting, guest speaker Robert Egger, in Social Enterprise Magazine and an excellent... more

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield & Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) [review originally in Social Enterprise Magazine with a strict word limit: hence the brevity...] This book could not come more heavily garlanded... more

So on Day 2 at the SSE residential, 140 social entrepreneurs packed into the Great Hall at Dartington to hear from Colin Crooks, social entrepreneur and founder of Green-Works, the furniture recycling social enterprise It takes quite an individual to... more

The place. `Fifteen' in Hoxton. The time. Eight thirty AM. The people. Twelve or so Social Enterprise Ambassadors plus Third Sector Minister Angela Smith and her entourage of four (yes, I know) from the Office of the Third Sector. The purpose. To tell Angela to keep this mainly pro-bono ... more

I did something new this week - I followed a conference on Twitter.  Thanks to @SchSocEnt and @SEMagreporter I kept an eye on what was going on at Good Deals 2009 - the national social investment conference.  <>I learnt, amongst other things, that plenty of people are keen to see some lighter touch</>... more

My name’s Beth Tilston and I attended Chain Reaction last year.  Despite the fact that I couldn’t eat the lovely food (you’ll read why below) I had a great time and made some important connections.<>I was looking for ideas and opportunities for food-related projects and through putting a sign u</>... more