social enterprise
FOX Features Social Enterprise & Small Planet Partners
Submitted by willow on Fri, 2010-05-28 16:06.
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FOX Business Live dedicates today's show to social enterprise. Small Planet Partners was pleased to take part in the show and talk about two of our recent projects: reducing mail waste by 20 - 50%, and working with the Product Stewardship Institute and two industry associations to make it easier for consumers to opt-out of receiving unwanted Yellow Pages. Want to opt-out? Visit PSI's site.
Watch the segment on FOX Business Live.
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technoratiPERT Charting for Social Enterprise
Submitted by willow on Mon, 2010-04-05 14:35.
When navigating complexities, consider utilizing "The Theory of Change," a methodology to create the kind of change social entrepreneurs are interested in. The take from the Skoll Foundation's Social Edge forum is that it "involves:
• Identifying long-term goals and the assumptions behind them
• Backwards mapping and connecting the preconditions or requirements necessary to achieve that goal.
• Identifying the interventions that your initiative will perform to create your desired change.
• Developing indicators to measure your outcomes to assess the performance of your initiative.
• Writing a narrative to explain the logic of your initiative.
You might say the Theory of Change approach is a version of the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT charting) adapted for social enterprises.
Kansas City Star Covers Upcoming E-Waste Pilot Program
Submitted by willow on Sun, 2010-01-24 14:49.
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oday's Kansas City Star reported on the broad contours of our upcoming electronic waste household collection pilot program.
Two slight corrections: though Missouri is on the short list of states where the pilot project may take place, the program will be managed from our Missouri office. The pilot is less traditional mail-in program, with more focus on on-the-ground consolidation, thereby reducing overall carbon footprint.
Agriculture = 90% of Ethiopian Exports. Who Knew?
Submitted by willow on Fri, 2010-01-08 13:45.
In November, I visited Ethiopia for the first time to make this presentation at the Ethiopian National Agricultural Learning Event, with our partner, Addis Ababa-based FarmOrganic International:
Day one of the conference featured research and best practices presented by international non-governmentlal organizations like Oxfam and CARE that have worked in the region for decades, to the federal government, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Women's Affairs, to multi-lateral, international organizations like the World Bank, to multiple regional agricultural centres and Farmers Unions which live the subject.
A straw poll of 30+ Americans and Europeans, and a handful of Middle Easterners, 
reveals that the prevailing perception of Ethiopia (for decades) has been the starving child.
Three Competencies of Leading Organizations
Submitted by willow on Sun, 2009-04-05 23:07.
Peter Senge and colleagues detail in The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World three competencies that separate leading organizations from the rest:
Changing Directions...Comments Welcome
Submitted by willow on Thu, 2009-04-02 20:10.
This Seth Godin post makes the wonderful distinction between process and content. As we prepare to publicly reorient the purpose and market position of Small Planet Partners around values -- now manifesting, though a mere murmur to the subconscious for far too long, I hope to convey process strengths in the work-in-progress that follows. Please share your candid first impressions, reactions and suggestions to this preview:
