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4BlackYouth.com

The web site says "We are a group of African-American professionals and students who are on a mission to leverage new technologies to educate and provide opportunities to those who need it most. Since there are so many things against black youth, we are For Black Youth because we feel that the African-American community needs targeted solutions to combat our unacceptably low educational, income and employment statistics. However, this site wholeheartedly welcomes individuals of all ethnicities who would like to contribute to or who can benefit from our offerings. Come join us. We will make a change."

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A Vision for the Sharing Economy
This article reflects on what's possible in the "sharing economy" and talks about opportunities to shape the direction of this movement".
The writer says "the sharing economy is not only a real solution, it’s also an inspiring true story. People experience it as empowering. It puts people in a new, constructive relation to one another. In the sharing economy, we host, fund, teach, drive, care, guide and cook for friends and strangers alike. This is a world where people help each other. It’s also a world where self-interest and the common good align."

Read more and follow the links to build your understanding of the "sharing economy" and it's impact on you.
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Additional Ideas for Social Entrepreneurs
This is part of the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site where additional links to and ideas are available.
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Advancing Social Entrepreneurship (pdf)
From the PDF:

"Advancing Social Entrepreneurship introduces policymakers and leaders in government agencies to social entrepreneurship as a new way to address old problems."
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Advancing Social Innovation blog
It will take all three sectors of society - public, nonprofit, and private - working together to better invest taxes and philanthropic dollars, as well as to better utilize markets in more creative and strategic ways to solve social problems. This blog is written by Andrew Wolk of Root Cause.
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Adventures on New Giving - new ways of helping
This site has a list of new enterprises and crowd funding sites that aim to meet the growing demands of social entrepreneurs and non profit organizations. Follow the articles to stay informed.
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Architecture of-a Social Business - blog article
The writer offers uses a graphic design and architectural perspective to stimulate thinking about social businesses and what is involved.
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Article: Hybrid Model Not working

This New York Times article is worth reading for any on profit that thinks creating a business model is easy, or that it always works.

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Ashoka.org - Supporting Social Innovation
To ensure that the leading ideas for social change are fully developed and sustained, we have designed an approach that offers critical interventions on three levels—the individual, the group, and the sector.
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Association for Enterprise Opportunity AEO

AEO provides a wide range of supports to help small enterpreneurs succeed. Browse the web site to learn more.

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Aura's House
Aura's House was launched in June 2004 by an Art Professor in New Jersey and her web design students. To date this online project has raised over $12,000 to build and furnish homes for needy families in Guatemala and Honduras. Our latest project is to raise $1850 to construct a well in the Indian Village of Khordanahala. To get safe water, residents currently have to make a half-mile trek to a well that is often broken down, which leaves them no choice but to use water from a contaminated pond for drinking, cooking, and washing. This leaves many of the most vulnerable in the village- babies, small children, and the elderly at risk for stomach-related illnesses and even potential death. The new well will be built in a better location with modern technology to facilitate the drawing of clean water for local families. We are also running a new ongoing project which helps send Zambian children to school for a year: $30 pays for their uniform, books and all school supplies. Without these items, children are not allowed to attend the free public schools. Since $30 is more than most Zambian families make in a month, many children are left without even a basic primary school education. Please visit http://www.aurashouse.com for more details. Photos of the people whose lives you?ll be changing are at the site. All donations are 100% US Tax Deductible.
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BALTA - BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance
From the web site:


"BALTA is a regional research collaboration amongst community based organizations, universities and colleges in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, with an interest in the social economy. BALTA's mandate involves researching various aspects of the social economy with a view to both increasing knowledge about the sector and identifying ways to strengthen and expand the sector. BALTA is the BC-Alberta node of a pan-Canadian research initiative, the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships (CSERP). This five year research initiative (2006-2011) is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).


This website and the linked online library contain an extensive and growing body of information about BALTA, its research and other programs, research results, and the social economy more broadly."
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Beyond Good Intentions
This organization's goal is to identify and discuss effective models and innovative approaches in international aid and development that go beyond good
intentions to address the needs of the world's poor.
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Blog focused on improving lives of world's poor
A BOPreneur is an entrepreneur focused on improving the lives of the world's poorest people, the 3 billion people who earn less than $3/day, often referred to as the Base of the Pyramid (BOP). This blog shares experiences and opinions about the BOP, social entrepreneurship, sustainability.

This article is a guest post titled "Unreasonable Crowdfunding."
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Brain is More Important than Capital - message to entrepreneurs
This blog has many ideas that innovators and social entrepreneurs might learn from. In the article I point to the author says "an entrepreneur is a “Master of ideas and concepts” in contrast to a “Master of business administration”. Instead of micro-managing what exists an entrepreneur creates something new."

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Busniness Plan Competitions - list
This page points to a list of business plan competitions with a Corporate Social Responsibility/ Sustainable focus or track.
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Canadian Youth Business Foundation.
Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) supports young entrepreneurs throughout the life-cycle of their businesses by providing pre and post-launch coaching, financing, mentoring and business resources.

This web site offers a wide range of resources for young people looking to be entrepreneurs. mentoring and school to work connections.

Take a look at the resources for mentoring and coaching on the site.
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Changemakers
Changemakers is an on-line community connecting innovators, investors, and advocates committed to building solutions to world problems.
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Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC)
From the web site: "(CEC) is a non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs on their path to building high-growth, sustainable businesses that serve as platforms for economic development and civic leadership. Its flagship project, 1871, fulfills CEC’s vision of a central address for entrepreneurs in Chicago. CEC runs and operates the workspace, develops programming, organizes events and ensures that the culture of 1871 allows entrepreneurs the greatest opportunity for success."
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Creativity, Social Benefit and Job Creation (PDF)
Creativity, Social Benefit and Job Creation: The Potential for Social Entrepreneurship in Ontario is the full title of this working paper, written by Andrea Baldwin.

This paper makes the case that "social entrepreneurship - both in the for-profit business sector, and the non profit sector, creates economic value by creating jobs. Furthermore, it also creates service delivery and, in some cases, stimulates employment for economically disadvantaged regions or individuals."

The ideas in this report could be applied in Chicago, New York or any other city.
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Crowdhoster - Crowdit - Open Source Crowdfunding API
This looks like a useful resource for intermediaries who want to build crowdfunding sites but do not have the tech and coding talent to do it. Here's a developer page:
https://www.crowdtilt.com/learn/developers
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Dell Social Innovation Challenge
From the web site:

"The Dell Social Innovation Challenge identifies and supports promising young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world's most pressing problems with their transformative ideas. We provide university students with world-class teaching and training, as well as with start-up capital and access to a network of mentors and advisors."
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Design competitions - hosted by UK Design Council
This organization stimulates the thinking of others by hosting design competitions on a regular basis. This is something Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC would like to be part of in conjunction with US organizations focused on education, non profit sector, etc.
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Design for Social Impact
This Social Edge discussion includes references and links to many articles and web site that support design applications.  I encourage you  to visit the discussion and see the context in which these links were recommended.

Or just browse the links below and dig into this information from that perspective.

Some of the links

Design toolkit - https://client.ideo.com/hcdtoolkit/

Use of Appropriate technology article - http://www.enewsbuilder.net/whatworks/e_article000193305.cfm
Social Capital Markets: http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/index.php
Design for Learning: http://www.ideo.com/thinking/focus/design-for-learning/

Corporate ethnographers gather for an annual conference, called EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference). Here is the next one, to take place in Copenhagen: http://www.epic2008.com/

A Better Place.org Projects: http://www.betterplace.org/projects/236

Social Design Network: http://www.design21sdn.com/

Open Innovative Community: http://www.innocentive.com/

A few other interesting sites and discussion forums:

http://www.core77.com/

http://www.poptech.org/

http://www.kluster.com/

Open Architecture Network: http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/
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Encore Nation - Seniors Making a Difference
From the web site:

"Encore.org is for people interested in encore careers – jobs that combine personal meaning, continued income and social impact. The site is published by Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank on boomers, work and social purpose.

While Encore.org is not a job placement service, it provides free, comprehensive information that helps people transition to jobs in the nonprofit world and the public sector."
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