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Presentation given at the Social Innovation @ Ivey Forum, March 24th, 2010
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we’re screwed. now what are you gonna do about it?
Social Innovation @ Ivey ForumMarch 24, 2010
First, a bit about...
me
unschooler
runner
entrepreneur
1991 2010
‘founding’
‘working’
‘career path’
Life is messy and unpredictable.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
Everything I do...
teaches me about what i’m good at...
connects me with people I can do more
stuff with...
challenges me to look deeper and ask...
What’s the point?
13,700,000,000 years ago
4,450,000,000 years ago
130,000 years ago
7,300 years ago - Agriculture
150 years ago - Industrial Revolution
We are powerful.
1945 - Hiroshima
We are dangerous.
1983 - Exxon Valdez Spill
1994 - Rwanda
2000 - Aral Sea dies
We thought we were in control.
2001 - 911
2006 - Climate Change
2008 - Global markets collapse
We were wrong.
“A flaw in the model...
...that defines how the world works.”
WE
...are making our planet inhospitable.
We are killing each other.
We are killing ourselves.
We’re screwed.
But, there’s hope.
If we created this mess...
... then we can create
something better.
social entrepreneurship = creating a better world
it happens...at many levels
social benefit
social impact
systems change
it happens... through many forms
Non-profitSocial
Enterprise
Social Purpose Business
For-profit
social movements
government
it happens...using many tools
Social Innovation
technology
financepolicy
but it all starts... with people
Prof. Muhammad Yunus
Tzeporah Berman
Tom Szaky
it all starts with...
you
what are you going to do?
Michael Lewkowitz, Igniter
[email protected]://igniter.com
twitter etc. “Igniter”