As many of you may know I work together with local NGO partners in India and Kenya to better the life of vulnerable communities. One essential part of this work is not just to invest in various projects and activities, but we invest also a lot in network building among our partners, even across the…
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The world needs network builders and doers to make more change happen – Visiting impact projects in Maharashtra
Today I visited some projects in rural/ tribal areas in Maharashtra driven by the Social Impact foundation which started its activities 30 years back supported by the UN and the government. They run a bundle of different activities with women and adolescents in tribal areas – from fighting against mal- and undernutrition, women health awareness…
Real change needs many bricks
Do you have identified very clearly a social need in our society? Do you have created a solution for a particular problem? Maybe a first result or even success is visible. You could convince some investors and help some people. Maybe you have been working on it for several years already and an entire group…
My video of the month – social media for social change
Today I found this video and I just want to share with you – because it shows the networking community that empowers the different thinking. Social media, social change and social business – wherever we focus on it leads to the new way of thinking and shows the mechanism behind. Just thinking of what can…
Creating social impact: see the benefit of walking before participating in a marathon
It is astonishing how individual social entrepreneurs and/or small startups can achieve results by addressing and implementing innovative ways of social enterprises in local areas. Compared to huge organizations they are often much faster to connect and to start working together with local people on obvious needs. Probably this is due to a very pragmatic…
Socializing Social entrepreneurship – 1 + 1 makes 3
Socializing Social enterpreneurs – it sounds somehow strange, but this is what could lead to much more success in the future and accelerate social change in the world. We are just at the beginning. Having a look at ongoing social entrepreneur competitions, platforms and organizations that are involved in supporting social activities it is mostly…
Which culture do you live? Thing- or person-driven?
Probably you are aware what you and your team members know very well and are experts in. One may be a really good strategist, the next an expert of controlling and finance. And you? Maybe the marketing guy or the do it yourself man/woman. In the meetings you discuss or issues you ask yourself may…
How to succeed as social entrepreneur, part 1
Are you a social entrepreneur? Do you want to do something good and scale it up? Then you should learn from nature and increase your network channels’ usage and networking skills. Networking needs to become one of your main activities. Because this is the natural way on how things work very well and complexity can…