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| Scaling Up Your Social Enterprise |
Ranjani Saigal
08/17/2011
(The Fifth Annual Forum for Social Entrepreneurs will be held on Oct. 1 at MIT featuring leading social entrepreneurs Harish Hande, Una Ryan, Andrew Yang and others. There is also a pitch competition. It is being hosted by TIE-SE in collaboration with the Sloan Business Club at MIT. Check out http://stageboston.tie.org/page/9/forse)
TIE-SE held its August meeting at the MassChallenge incubator in Boston on August 8th. Eric Dawson, Founder and President, Peace First, Sharad Anil Parajuli, Founder and Director, Himalyan Health Care (HHC) and Peter Haas, Founder Fifty Frogs and AIDG shared their journeys and provided insights into scaling social enterprises. Check out the Video Archive of the event.
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Aug 8
Venue: Mass Challenge
About -- Scaling up your Social Enterprise
Every entrepreneur dreams of growing their organization to achieve significant impact and scale. Yet finding that pathway to scale a social enterprise is even more tricky and elusive. What are some of the approaches that work best in this field? Will traditional commercial models work in scaling your social enterprise? TIE-SE brought together a truly award winning panel of social innovators who have each addressed these issues in interesting ways. The panel was moderated by Dr. Lakshmi Balachandar.Panelists :
• Eric Dawson, Founder and President, Peace First. An Echoing Green Fellow and Ashoka Fellow, Eric founded Peace First, an organization that empowers students to create their own safe classrooms and communities by forming partnerships with elementary schools, families, and volunteers. Peace First has taught over 40,000 students critical conflict resolution skills; created over 2,500 peacemaker projects; recruited over 4,000 volunteers to provide 400,000 hours of volunteer teaching service; and trained 2,500 teachers in conflict resolution and classroom management skills. http://www.peacefirst.org
• Sharad Anil Parajuli, Founder and Director, Himalyan Health Care (HHC). An Ashoka Fellow, Sharad has been named one of the top fifty personalities in Nepal. HHC improves health care in rural Nepal, HHC began by running "medical treks" that took foreign doctors into remote villages to treat the sick, and to train health care workers. It has expanded into income generation via handicrafts, farming and seed preservation, women's empowerment, and set up a hospital. http://www.himalayan-healthcare.org
• Peter Haas, Founder Fifty Frogs and AIDG. Peter is an Echoing Green Fellow and a TED Global Fellow. AIDG helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water. Previously Peter has also worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. http://www.aidg.org and http://www.fiftyfrogs.com
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