Melinda Gates (the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates) recently gave a talk about the future of social enterprise at an event organized by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative. Here are some of the highlights from the article:
According to a recent study, people who spend money on others are happier than people who [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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In Built to Last, the authors said:
In examining the history of visionary companies we were struck by how often they made some of their best moves not by detailed strategic planning, but rather by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and–quite literally accident.
This week I read an interview in Founders at Work with Paul Buchheit of [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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We each have a serious problem. Everyone around us knows about our problem but us. The problem is that each of us cannot see that we have a problem. This is self-deception. Each of us engage in self-deception at times, and when we do, we live and work as if we are trapped in a [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Each year, the Mesa Arizona LDS Temple hosts the largest annual, outdoor easter pageant with hundreds of cast members, an enormous set, and amazing costumes and music. The pageant has been held annually for 70 years, and I have had the privilege of attending many times.
This year, in addition to the pageant itself, the [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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For the third time Elder M. Russell Ballard has spoken about online missionary work, this time to the Brigham Young University Management Society in Washington, D.C.
After discussing the problem of negative information about the Church in the media, he said:
So let me pose a question. What are you prepared to do about it? If you [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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I am not a professional rose gardener by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy growing roses, and have learned lessons and found symbolisms from rose gardening:
Variety
Did you know there are more than 100 wild species of roses and thousands of rose hybrids developed for gardening based on bloom shape, size, fragrance and even [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Kiva is one of the greatest uses of the Internet to do good. Kiva is an online microlending service that allows people anywhere to lend money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world. Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva works to qualify [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Giving Back, Microlending, Poverty, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 1 Comment »
If you work with a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides a community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts, [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Elder M. Russell Ballard, an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, urged 1,400 Brigham Young University-Idaho graduates to make their presence felt in the digital world at the BYU-I commencement on Friday, April 11, 2008.
Elder Ballard said: “Every month there are 60 billion searches for information on the Internet. Many are [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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All companies have goals, but many of the most successful companies set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (”BHAGs”). There is a big difference between merely having a goal, and being fully committed to a huge, daunting challenge–like a mountain to climb.
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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