After our amazing session on Saturday with our four guest speakers Melissa Kwee, Alfie Othman, Michael Switow and Bernise Ang, here are a few links to keep everyone thinking and acting on social innovation. The world of social entrepreneurship is vast and rapidly expanding - this is just a small start!
Syinc
ONE Singapore
Ashoka
Change.org
Some of the things our speakers said have stuck in my mind since Saturday:
- "Not taking action was worse than taking action"
- "I was already very busy, but by the end of the conversation I'd signed up to do this"
- "Those were the worst two years of my life"
- "That was one of the most moving moments in my life"
- "I know the industry inside out now"
- "I spent two years of my life getting to know the people I was working with"
- "Pick an issue that resonates within you"
- "It was not that hard getting from 29 to 4,000, but it was much harder getting from 4,000 to 14,000."
Almost all of them talked about:
- how the initiatives they've started were things they could not help but do
- how crazy ideas can go a Very. Long. Way.
- how important it is to research the issue exhaustively, think long and hard about how to effect positive social change and why one strategy might be better than another
- how important it is to build a network of support, of like-minded individuals, and to tap into that network to effect change
Yeling
Monday, January 19, 2009
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