NEWS
About our Staff and from the World of SOCIAL PROFIT
May 20, 2005: Mark Pomerantz delivered the keynote address at the "Cultivating Communities" Conference in John Day, Oregon. His participation was sponsored by the Shelk Advised Funds of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Central Oregon Partnership.
view keynote presentation, "Social Entrepreneurs I Have Known"
May 19, 2005: Mark Pomerantz gave a presentation on "Youth Entrepreneurship" at the Puget Sound Alliance for Community Technology (www.psact.org) Youth Cluster meeting (co-sponsored by Brand-In-The-Box www.brand-in-the-box.com)
View "Why is Youth Entrepreneurship Important?" (Word file)
March 3, 2005: Mark made a presentation to Alumni Board members, administration, faculty, and students, on the pioneering social entrepreneurship work of Arthur Morgan, President of Antioch College and first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, at Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
View presentation on pioneering work of Arthur Morgan in academia and community development (.PDF file)
May 19, 2004: Social Profits was proud to collaborate with Seattle University, Social Enterprise Magazine-Online, and Mission Movers to present: Creating the Sustainable Organization: A Primer for the Social Entrepreneur, focusing on the needs of local nonprofit agencies. (Also see Curtis Brown below) view details (120k PDF).
Celia Weisman served as Interim Managing Director of Washington CASH, Washington State’s only peer micro-lending program. Celia’s role was to help improve the infrastructure of CASH and create more “institutional memory” for the organization through the development of procedure manuals, board development and training, and etc. Her appointment ended in June 2004 upon the birth of her daughter Dena. This is an example of Social Profits ability to provide high quality interim senior staffing for nonprofits.
Jim Diers is the liaison to Seattle communities for the University of Washington Office of Educational Partnerships and serves on the faculties of the UW Department of Architecture and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. His book, Neighbor Power was recently published by the University of Washington Press. click here for info (UW Press) Buy Jim's Book on amazon.com
Mark Pomerantz and Roy Soards presented a workshop on Social Enterprise Development at the Training Conference of ACCSES, the American Congress of Community Supports and Employment in Seattle on November 11, 2004.
Mark Pomerantz also gave a presentation on College Based Social Entrepreneurship Centers at the Sustainable Resources conference held at the University of Colorado in Boulder October 2, 2004.
Curtis Brown recently presented or co-presented several successful conferences with the participation of Joel Meyers, Mark Pomerantz and others. These included Critical Nonprofit Tools, Creating the Sustainable Organization, and Taking it to the Next Level I and II. For more information go to http://missionmovers.org/
Social Profits is all about Capacity Building. Click below to see our thoughts on how funders should be helping the Third Sector build capacity.
An Open Letter to Institutional Funders Interested in Facilitating Nonprofit Organization Capacity Building2
Our Portland Associate Roy Soards is a "serial social entrepreneur" who's created 15 social enterprise businesses.
Click below to see what he has to say about the dynamic tension between mission and money.
Introducing Roy Soards
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