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		<title>Another successful year for ForSE 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another successful conference on Social Entrepreneurship was held on October 23rd, this time at Babson College in Boston's Wellesley suburb. Details on the conference and photos were posted in a local e-magazine, Lokvani.com and are reproduced for those who could not attend. For details go to  
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		<title>World’s largest Business plan competition looks to help social entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To help jumpstart job growth in Massachusetts, a unique public/private partnership, Masschallenge.org, was launched earlier this year that hopes to attract hundreds if not thousands of interested entrepreneurs to Massachusetts by unveiling what it claims is the world’s largest business plan competition. It hopes to change the way business plans are run by providing the winning teams with $1 million in seed funding in six different categories. With these incentives from MassChallenge and the support of the Massachusetts Government, the many entries the "Social Development and Non-profit" category will attract could help create the next new growth cluster in the state. Read my comments on this at <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com">http://blog.ambientengines.com</a>
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		<title>Sustainable Business Models for Social Ventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new breed of ventures has begun innovating revenue models to build greater capacity and sustain operations. These approaches leverage the power of markets and have discovered the sustainable power of partnering with their customers to meet their social needs. More details at 
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		<title>An Investors perspective of Microfinance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Investors perspective of Microfinance - Over the past years, microfinance has grown increasingly prominent and found its way into the common vernacular. As microfinance has become increasingly mainstream, major investors have started to take positions in microfinance companies. What are the potential returns and social impacts that investors see in this segment?  More details at <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com">http://blog.ambientengines.com</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=546&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ForSE 2009 Agenda Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs promises to continue the tradition of interactive and engaging forums that we have produced in the past. In-depth discussion with a panel of practitioners and experts in four parallel panels. Dissect the daily workings of a social entrepreneur and help brainstorm solutions. Refine your pitch and wow a panel of judges during the Pitching session. More agenda details at <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com">http://blog.ambientengines.com</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=540&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ForSE 2009 Pitch Contest &#8211; Pitching SE: How Good Leaders Sell Smart Ideas</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/10/13/forse-2009-pitch-contest-pitching-se-how-good-leaders-sell-smart-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs, will have a pitch contest for aspiring social entrepreneurs. If you have an idea with significant social impact, here is your chance to pitch it and to wow a panel of expert judges and win a prize.  Send in a short summary of your idea to pitch@tie-se.org <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=534&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs on Oct 23 at Babson College</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/10/13/forse-2009-forum-for-social-entrepreneurs-on-oct-23-at-babson-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our annual conference on Social Entrepreneurship - ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs will be held on Friday October 23. This time we are working together with Babson College’s Net Impact Undergrad organization to host it at Olin Hall on Babson College’s lovely Wellesley campus.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=528&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Drayton &#8211; Social Entrepreneurship’s Rock Star</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/03/04/bill-drayton-social-entrepreneurship%e2%80%99s-rock-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky to attend the HBS SE Conf 10th Anniversary Keynote Panel.  The panel consisted of Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka and granddaddy of social entrepreneurship, David Gergen, presidential advisor emeritus and ubiquitous political commentator, Jon Greenblatt, founder of Ethos water, and Clara Miller, CEO of Nonprofit fund. More on the panel in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=386&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HBS SE Conference Keynote by Linda Rottenberg of Endeavor</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/03/04/hbs-se-conference-keynote-by-linda-rottenberg-of-endeavor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening keynote to the 10th annual HBS Social Enterprise Conference was a truly inspirational presentation by Linda Rottenberg from Endeavor, Inc.  Linda traced the arc of social entrepreneurship as it accelerated over the past decade from an idea to formally becoming a key movement. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=379&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ForSE 2008 &#8211; Speakers and Panels for conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a terrific line up of speakers and panels for ForSE 2008 on October 10th at Boston University. See the list below. Do make sure you have registered as there are very few seats left.
To register go to: http://www.bu.edu/forse

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