Social Catalyst

As regular readers will know, I am one of the founders of the Camberwell Project and we have high aspirations for making an impact in the 3rd sector. Well, we are beginning to realize much of the hard work put in during 2006 and we are now looking to GROW.
Please alert yourself or your networks [...]

I am back from a much needed holiday. It has been 3 years since I took more than a long weekend off. Too long. Interesting things happen when you get back from holidays. First, you realize that you really need to take more of them and secondly you realize that, at least if you are [...]

Pay. Compensation. Salary. Bonus.This is 6th in a Series  |   Principles 6, 7 and 8 focus on structures of compensation that maintain a focus on value creation for the organisation. I am not sure these are fully adaptable to Social Enterprises as they exist in their current state, with many likely paying not enough money [...]

Seth Godin reminds us of the best time for a venture to start. And I remind you that anything worth doing is usually difficult and there is no shortage of people who will tell you it can’t be done. Think about it.

I blogged about TED back in July. Wow! Has it been that long…?
But it is worth another mention as they continue to post a video from the 2006 conference on their blog each week. I took a break on the bus a few days back and watched two really interesting presentations. One was on astro [...]

Donorblog has a funny entry on nonprofit (or social enterprise) Google. (thanks to Podnosh for the link)

Thanks to SSE for alerting me to this great conversation on how social enterprise may work. The audiocast is over a year old, but spot on for it’s focus on how we must change the paradigm of social enterprise. Evaluating Social Venture Ideas is from the Stanford University Net Impact Conference 2005 and brings together [...]

I cannot believe it has taken me this long to post about the amazing stuff happening down at the Hub in London (and other locations worldwide). Jonathan and the team combined existing models and new ideas to come up with, by all accounts, is a Catalytic Innovation for the social and business sector simultaneously. Now, [...]

I am extremely interested in the scale and impact of social enterprise. We as a team are interested in the many forms of social enterprise. So I was intrigued by an article in this month’s Harvard Business Review | Disruptive Innovation for Social Change (authors Christenson, Baumann, Ruggles, and Sadlter). The premise is that [...]

It appears, upon first glance, that there is a plethora of sources of finance for the riskier and different 3rd sector. But recently, upon closer inspection, it appears we may have some that are just playing a part in a fancy dress party.
We recently guided a client through one of these funds geared towards social [...]