A great idea takes great implementation and working across borders (any border) is not always easy. Theory only gets you so far when managing beyond
Labs are an emerging way tackling complex challenges. This panel addressed how they are using this approach in their country and how social enterprises can
Corporations are moving from writing cheques to supporting social purpose work to doing it themselves. SEWF 2013 heard from a panel of experts working in
This session was moderated by Eva Friesen, President and CEO, The Calgary Foundation and featured: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and
This session looked at social enterprise policy development with a rural lens. This international panel of intermediaries and practitioners presented and discussed the features of
Too often practitioners and researchers find themselves on either side of a linguistic, technical, and cultural divide. Building on a pre-SEWF 2013 research day at
In this session public sector leaders and key practitioners took turns spending three to four minutes identifying their three key public policy “must do’s” to
This session targeted three key mindsets that cut across so many opportunities and challenges facing social enterprises and everyone else dedicated to social impact –
We hoped ‘impact’ would be a crucial component of the conversations throughout all of SEWF 2013, but we wanted to put that primacy of purpose
Two of the many goals of the annual Social Enterprise World Forum are to build international linkage and galvanize the government of the host. By