A recent Guardian article reminds us that social enterprise in deprived areas needs to be encouraged. On the whole, I agree with this article for 3 reasons:
1. Mixing of networks; bringing people outside the community into the challenging community is important to changing perceptions and creating real opportunities for those living in the community.
2. Raising [...]
Future Focused, Present Participant
No, it’s not an English grammar lesson. Although the dangling participle remains that most annoying memory of the 10th grade.
Rather, it is a reminder to keep you mind on the future of achievement and not the present of the interesting. Derek Sivers points out brilliantly this conundrum.
I will only add that entrepreneurs should read my [...]
Funding is not the Key
Seth Godin is spot on (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/06/getting-funded-is-not-the-same-as-succeeding.html). How many times have you thought, “if I just get that loan or grant, we will be ok”? This is the classic self preservation trap. Where is the client in this thinking, where is the follow on graft? It’s not there bc we think the funding is the goal.
What [...]
7 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
I was not much of a book reading in high school or university. I read what was necessary for class (most of the time!) and read lots of magazine articles to fill my thirst for education outside school. However, over the past 10 years, I have become obsessive about books. Why? Because great books deliver [...]
Building an Experience Worth Talking About
How do you innovate a dinosaur industry like the meeting and conference industry – while creating a space that is a platform for social change?
One aspect at a time. I suppose.
I tried to convey a vision to the team this week; one filled with grand ideas of the business of why? and how we can deliver [...]
Focus: find it or perish
That one word, focus, sums up the biggest missing element of our 5 year journey in social enterprise business. We have such high aspirations; £1b in value creation in 10 years, £1m venture fund in 3 years, and generally trying to hyper expand the sector. As a result, we *tricked* ourselves into thinking everything we started [...]
Solving Big Problems? Stop being so Serious
Maybe what we need to solve big problems is a little more levity. When you take everything, at all times, so seriously, you probably alienate 75% of your potential supporters. This is a great example of bringing attention and making people think about a serious issue in a funny way. Mr. Colbert reigns in the [...]
Outputs or Real Change?
Ever notice that the public sector, while probably the slowest movers in society, are also the most impatient? This is probably why so many organisations simply fill the damn forms in and focus their energy on appeasing the beast. We are attempting to create sustainable solutions to social and economic problems, and I think this [...]
Shine On, Lablets!
After 5 years or pushing forward the Shine concept, it is starting to feel like others are seeing the potential of the model to transform society. Or at least they are speaking in the same language. Our flagship model is both pushing forward to success in the worst economy and balancing on the head of [...]
School for Social Entrepreneurs and its Fellows Spread Their Wings
They came, they saw, they conquered. Our first cohort of social entrepreneurs have graduated! Congratulations to the 17 newly minted Fellows.
We couldn’t be more proud, as this was a 4 year old dream realised for Camberwell. I can still remember our first conversation with Nick (SSE HQ) at a cafe in Islington. Chris and I [...]
About Todd
Todd Hannula was a self-confessed “corporate boob”, before moving to Yorkshire and making things happen. He is a co-founder and CEO of Leeds-based social entrepreneurial platform for change Shine a place where people are inspired to make things happen; located in the heart of a challenged neighbourhood, trying to raise aspirations and create real opportunities.
About Chris
Chris Hill has worked in the field of enterprise and regeneration for twenty years and is Shine's co-founder and business development director. His specialist areas include development trusts and associated property development, business planning and enterprise work with housing associations.
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Funding is not the Key
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