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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

Master’s thesis’s executive summary online

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Collage featuring my broken nails, the executive summary on The Good Tribe’s blog and my nervous breakdown on Skype.

This turned into a real nail biter ;) I usually don’t bite my nails. But tonight I really did…

Our BIG master’s thesis draft on how to facilitate a business relationship between social entrepreneurs and business angels is ready – and the executive summary is online on The Good Tribe’s blog. This is our most humble Xmas gift to all social entrepreneurs, social and commercial business angels, impact and social investors out there, trying to facilitate well working business relationship, and of course a taste of our full master’s thesis.

How on earth am I going to be able to sleep now!? I’ve been looking forward to this day for over a year! Amazing feeling!

I’m also incredibly tired. When I wrote the preface I got so emotional that I started to cry…

Perhaps shutting off the computer is a nice way of starting to relax… tomorrow will also be a busy day.

Happy reading

The battle of social entrepreneurship discourses

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Last week me and Michael put up a blog post about the highly interesting battle of the hero and the communitarian discourses within social entrepreneurship. It’s great fun that the article is getting lots of hits – and we already got quoted for the draft of a book about social entrepreneurship. Exciting!

Excert from the blogpost:

These two movements are trying to control or even manipulate the discourse to gain credibility and justification for their definition by heavily pushing their own narratives. And there are strong indications that the hero entrepreneur with their powerful organizational and financial backing and sophisticated marketing is winning this battle. Aren’t we all sharing success stories and using words like scale, philantro-capitalism, professionals, leadership, result-orientated, pragmatic, risk-taking, visionary and passionate instead of social value, social justice, social change, advocacy, grants, donations, localism, cooperative and third-sector right now?

Read the full blogpost here. And read more about Earth overshoot day, which we also mention in the article here. The rest of the year we are living on recourses stolen from our children. Doesn’t feel that great if you ask me…

I can highly recommend reading the article, which inspired us to write our blog post: The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre-Paradigmatic Field by Alex Nicholls (2010). One of the most difficult academic texts I have ever read – bot SO worth it. Incredibly well written!

Movie from the roundtable discussion with Yunus

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In the beginning of June this year I was invited to participate in a roundtable discussion with Nobel peace prize laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. I got the invitation not even two days before the event and I ended up on a 28 hours long train from Austria to Sweden arriving the very minute the whole thing started. You can read my full stories about the trip on The Good Tribe’s blog, here and here.

The discussion with Yunus was very interesting indeed! I still cary some of the statements with me. Like the importance of realizing that we cannot know what the future will look like since we try to understand it with our thinking of today.

Today Sven and Arne of GlobalFocus who invited me to the event posted a beautiful video where they have summed up Yunus’ statements from the discussion. Watch it below! Full of important insights!

And oh! Btw! The first part of the movie answers my question to Yunus: What do you think the world will look like in 2030?

Thanks again to Arne and Sven of GlobalFocus and the rest of you behind the scenes for the invitation! :)

Time to sign up for Hjärna. Hjärta. Cash!

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One of the latest projects The Good Tribe has gotten involved in is Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. is part of Rework the World, organized by LSU – Sveriges ungdomsorganisationer and financed by Västra Götalandsregionen.

Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. is an intense idea competition for teams of young leaders, whom during 48 amazingly exciting and challenging hours develop the sharpest society changing business ideas. As the Swedish name suggests, the challenge unites Brain (Hjärna), Heart (Hjärta) and Cash; a union of intelligent ideas, social responsibility and cash – everything you need to change the world!

The competition is held in Gothenburg, Sweden, on the 7th to 9th of May, 2010.

The goal of the ideas that are developed during Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. is to generate more job opportunities for young people. The ideas should also be socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. All participating teams will be coached by business development, marketing, sustainability and digital media experts throughout the competition.

The application time for participating in Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. ends on April 23rd, 2010.

More information on Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash.’s website.