Category Archives: The Good Tribe

Our adventure education pilot is in the making

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It’s not every day I feature Brazilian adventurers on my blog. But it’s going to be more of that in the future!

This movie clip was put together by professional adventurer Diogo Guerreiro of Destino Azul, The Good Tribe’s partner in putting together an adventure education concept. The adventure eduction concept is a fusion of ideas coming from different people and will evolve around sustainability, particularly issues regarding Zero Waste.

A pilot, which will also become a TV documentary, will be shot during Diogo’s, and his partner Flavio Jardim’s next adventure, which starts in two weeks. My bestie and business partner Gayathri Rathinavelu is the driving tribster behind the concept.

Very excited to follow and be a part of the progress! Yet another piece of the Zero Waste puzzle!

Have a great weekend!

xo,

Evelina

We need your old shirts – all kinds welcome!

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Over at The Good Tribe we’re initiating a very exciting fashion up-cycling initiative. The name and other details are still a BIG secret! Nevertheless, we need your help to kick things off!

My very dear friend, Alexandra Pötz is fashion designer, member of The Good Tribe and in charge of the design process. She needs all your shirts and blouses for men, women, and children that you don’t need any more. All kinds are welcome!

If you have something to give away, please contact Alexandra on Facebook or send her an email, alexandra [a] thegoodtribe [dot] com.

Please, help us spread the word!

Thank you very much for your contribution!

Stay tuned for more info about the initiative :)

xo,

Evelina

PS. Oh! I almost forgot! We’re starting to spread the word about our next clothes swapping event, which will be held during the autumn in Graz. We’re looking for volunteers and partners for the event. Let me know if you’re interested in participating somehow. The photo on top of the article is from our last big clothes swapping. I pimped the photo with my new app love, the Pixlromatic for iPhone. This app also works to use directly on their website, great fun!

Starting to spread the word about our research

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I’m very excited to announce that we (as in Michael Bauer-Leeb and I) are preparing to go out and talk about our research on facilitating business relationships between social entrepreneurs and business angels.

This is what I dreamt about all last year, during the reading and writing, to tell people about our findings. And perhaps more importantly – to engage in dialogue on how to develop the sphere of social entrepreneurship. And definitely most important – to conduct better business in order to take better care of ourselves and our planet.

Here are some of the topics we’re going to talk about.

  • What is social entrepreneurship (and why it is so difficult to define), and its role in the currently changing economic paradigms.
  • How to enhance communication between social entrepreneurs and investors and increase social entrepreneurs’ chances of finding an investor.
  • Differences between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship.
  • How can my business benefit from including social and environmental, along side profit seeking in the core business.

Read more over at The Good Tribe.

Let me know if you have any interesting and fun people we should talk to! :)

In general I’m very proud to say that there’s loooootttss of stuff happening behind the scenes in The Good Tribe right now. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend!

xo,

Evelina

Photo: Rupert Pessl

One of my first workshops in German

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It’s always a bit nervous for me to speak German in public, when a lot of people are listening. No exception on Monday, when The Good Tribe had its workshop premiere in Vienna. German is after all my third language, and getting all the verbs right is a horror. But it was so much fun to be back in the facilitator role (after a year of only reading and writing,  and very little workshop facilitation) that I soon forgot being nervous and focused on the task.

Our task in Vienna was to provide Social Impact Award’s idea generation workshop with our two methods: Sparks (intense and fun getting to know each other) and Vision board (find your professional path in life). We got great feedback on both methods from the participant. Sparks is like always a hit (it really always works perfectly!), and it was absolutely great to see how hard everyone worked on their vision boards, first silent and smiling and then in vivid discussions.

A big thank you to the participants and the Social Impact Award team for having us! Again to all of you who participated: if you have ideas or questions, please contact us :)

Later this spring, on the 12th and 19th of March to be exact, The Good Tribe will support Social Impact Award with pitch trainings. More information to come!

xo,

Evelina

Photo: Michael Koschutnig

The Good Tribe co-organizing idea generation workshop on Monday

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On Monday, 16th of January The Good Tribe co-organize an idea generation workshop with the Social Impact Award team. Our aim is to guide you through the experience of generating ideas to solve social problems. The workshop is open for everyone, and extra super perfect if you want to participate in the Social Impact Award competition later this spring. It doesn’t matter if you already have an idea or not, the workshop will take your idea (and your thinking about your future!) to a whole new level!

When: Mon, 16.1. 2011, 5pm
Where: The HUB Vienna
Register: Sign up via Facebook or send an email to chaska.armbruster [at] googlemail [dot] com.

If you want to prepare yourself for the workshop, think about the following question: What annoys the hell out of you? The answer to this question might be your most important clue to your future entrepreneurial activities evahhhh.

I’m really looking forward to see you on Monday! This is the first workshop we’re organizing in Vienna :)

xo,

Evelina