Almost forgot to post about an event that is close to my heart: When Money Isn’t the Only Measure: What Makes a Social Entrepreneur? at the Berkeley’s Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street (map). It starts at 6pm with light refreshments, 7-8 pm is the presentation or as I would call it larger conversation.
If you want to be on their mailing list sign up at the Berkeley Cybersalon website.
More details from the email (there was an update regarding the lineup, but I can't find the details, just come):
Giving is big business. It’s even got a new name: social entrepreneurship. The business tycoons of the 20th century are out, and social entrepreneurs, who apply business principles to help resolve social issues such as hunger, disease, and poverty, are in. Come meet and talk with a few of these new-millennium world changers:Martin Fisher, Ph.D. engineer and founder of ApproTEC, who decided to empower citizens in developing countries by designing simple and inexpensive tools such as a foot-driven irrigation pump;
Victoria Hale, Ph.D. in pharmacology and founder of One World Health, a nonprofit that has been conducting massive tests of orphan drugs to eradicate diseases like malaria, which kill millions each year;
Beverly Greene, executive director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, the nation's largest distributor of books from small presses, whose efforts make it possible for great writers to make their words heard everywhere; and
Boku Kodama, founder of Urban VOICE, a social justice organization that trains and empowers students from the poorest communities of Alameda County toward economic recovery and self-determination.
Find out what inspired them, how they got started, and how they manage to promote change.
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