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To all fellow women social entrepreneurs!

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Chaska at Social Impact Award just sent me a tip to have a look at Girltank’s initiative 10 000 names in 100 days, which aim at gathering the names of 10 000 women social entrepreneurs and innovators in 100 days.

Read more about one of the initiators, Tara Roberts here.

Tara’s thoughts behind the initiative:

I began to wonder what would happen if [...] extraordinary young women from [...] diverse regions could pool their resources together and access a common collective of information and inspiration. Would their capabilities as leaders grow? Would their projects become stronger and more effective? Would they begin to work jointly and create even more powerful initiatives together?

The answers to these questions became Girltank.

So, dear fellow social entrepreneurs and innovators (under 30 – buhu!!) – sign up now! We need to improve our visibility. There seem to be nice prices as well! I have two questions though: What do they intend to do with all the names they gather? (Invite them to events, and their community?) And why have they used passport stamps in the graphic design? (What does that have to do with the topic?)

xo,

Evelina

Earth from an orbital time lapse perspective

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One of the prominent guest at the Global Social Business Summit in Vienna in November was astronaut and social entrepreneurship spokes person Ron Garan. On a huge screen, with massive sound he showed several movie clips from his recent journey into space. The most fascinating movie clip was the one you can watch above.

Ron and his astronaut friends have started the social entrepreneurial initiative the Fragile Oasis.

“It is very difficult to look at our beautiful Earth from space without being moved in some way. One of the main goals of Fragile Oasis is to share this orbital perspective and inspire people to go out and make a difference; to go out and somehow make life better for those with whom they share this fragile oasis. The Fragile Oasis community was established to unite in the common goal of sharing our humanity and improving our world. Let us inspire, recognize, and help each other in our collective quest to make life better on our planet.”

Try to say no to that after having seen the movie clip. Fragile indeed!

xo,
Evelina

The true size of Africa

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Last week, I saw this very interesting image posted on Facebook. It shows the true size of Africa! I thought I had a clue… obviously I don’t. Africa is as big as big parts of Europe, China, the US, India, Japan and the UK combined! The map shows countries by their area in square kilometers, and then fitted into Africa’s borders.

The map is created by Kai Krause as means of combating immapancy, or insufficient geographical literacy. Something, I’m sure, most of us suffer from.

Our perception that Africa is much smaller remains from a seemingly outdated mapping project, The Mercator Projection from - 1569! Read more under Uses, (more myths!) regarding the Marcator Projection. Google Maps and other similar services are based on a variant of the Mercator Projection. This is how we view the world - and it’s WRONG!

Read more here and here. Some critique here.

Ahhrgg! All these myths that we surround ourselves with, and base our world view on, REALLY bug me…

xo,

Evelina

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