After a day on finance, we return to the themes of our opening keynote address. One of the distinctive attributes of social entrepreneurs is their ability to identify and mobilise very different kinds of assets – human, social and cultural. These case studies examine the ways social entrepreneurs can couple new financial resources with other assets and put both in the service of their mission and pursuit of social and environmental value.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:15, Friday, March 31, 2006 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerHead of Research, UnLtd: The Foundation for Social EntrepreneursMoritz Flockenhaus has spent most of his research career to date working on evaluation and impact assessment projects. Working in academia, Flockenhaus evaluated Home Office funded crime reduction projects before moving into central government where he evaluated various community…
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SpeakerLead Organiser, Living Wage CampaignGrowing up in South London the split between rich and poor was always apparent and appalling. The health, crime and other social problems brought about by poverty are clear and affect all of us. Doing agency work for a little extra cash I became friends with the largely immigrant workforce that…
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SpeakerCEO, Community Food Enterprise LtdEric Samuel is the Chief Executive Officer of Community Food Enterprise Limited. In 1998 he abandoned his career in banking to set up the Newham Food Access Partnership, a borough wide umbrella group/forum for providers and advocates of food access projects. In 2002, Eric established the…
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SpeakerFounder , Magic BreakfastCarmel McConnell is a lifelong social activist and award winning charity founder. She is also a best selling business author of five titles published by the FT/Pearson, including Change Activist, Soultrader and Make Money Be Happy. In 2001 she set up, and now runs, a children’s food poverty charity, the…