This was the year that social entrepreneurship crossed into the IT geek consciousness of South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), with the advent of Good Capitalist party (info, report). Good Capitalist, attended by nearly 2000 people, by some reports, was created by social media / social entrepreneur crossover star-child Martin Montero, aka the ubiquitous @montero in [...]

Our great friends, the inspiring change agents at the Unreasonable Institute have been doing some excellent interviews with social entrepreneurs and impact investors on the SoCap blog ever since the event ended last August.
During what any humble, reflexively sarcastic entrepreneur would think of as a week with no other good interview candidates, we got an [...]

Since we last reported on the then-named Sustainable Business Model meetup we launched in Boulder last year, we have merged with the Boulder-based social entrepreneur meetup, and have hosted four session in our new, revised format.
Today, the re-named Sustainable Ventures meetup is consistently gathering between forty and fifty change agents (which we expect to grow) [...]

In December, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that Denver is the first North American city and second city globally to be chosen by Ashoka as a “Change Your City” location.  This project, first created in Dublin, Ireland, works to raise awareness and get people involved in change-making. The video below, created by our friends at [...]

The second meetup in our series on Sustainable Enterprise Models was designed in response to questions coming out of the first one, namely:

Why are we getting together to create another meetup?
What are we going to try to accomplish together?
What is the language of sustainable enterprise, and how can we ensure we have a similar frame [...]

An in-depth report on research into sustainable economic development just got posted at nuPOLIS.  The rigor and cutting edge research that is the hallmark of this network is evident on this seminal work.
Here’s the summary:

In a new report, Sustainable Economic Development, nuPOLIS partner James Nixon details the comprehensive approaches that that cities and regions are using [...]

We’ve been party to lots of discussion about “who owns what” in the social enterprise space, from metrics to concepts, and from online profiles to the intellectual property within the discussions.  And frankly, they have all been a little bit depressing.
Today, “The Ownership of Conversation” came across the tweetstream.  Enjoy these out-takes:
So, if you think [...]

Reminder: Join the meetup tonight.
Here’s a summary of what to expect, straight from the Meetup description:

Check out #SoCapCO on twitter to track the discussion of all things related to social enterprise in Colorado.  The hashtag’s origin starts at the SoCap conference, but also implies lots of aspects we like about the social enterprise movement, with the multiple meanings for social capital, and the “co” representing Colorado, collaboration, collective and lots [...]

Topping a ten-day period of sustainability-inspired thinking pervading economic reporting in the gray-flannel-media, the old gray lady reports (PW req’d) that French President Nicolas Sarkozy initiated a shift in how the French government reports economic activity (story tip to three of favorite tweeters: @NurtureGirl, @kevindoylejones and @byrnegreen).
President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency [...]