Regent College takes on the challenges of starting up a Social Enterprise.
I absolutely loved the conference at Regent College this past weekend. It was interesting to see all of the folks keen to put theory into practice and start transformational enterprises. Most of the participants recognized that a social enterprise is a complex venture to undertake because of the various social/ecological or other values that are in the forefront.
In presenting Living Forest Communities as a case study, I was answering questions about how I got started and what were the biggest obstacles. A major question was to define in what ways was a social enterprise different from “business as usual”.
In our case, the donation of the timber rights and a sizable portion of the profits to the Trust for Sustainable Forestry, means that the entire business revolves around the larger mandate of expanding and enhancing the practice of ecosystem-based management of the forests.
see:
http://conferences.regent-college.edu/marketplace/
Filed under: Doug Makaroff on November 15th, 2009
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