Social Firms UK

The contributors to this American chronicle are staff from various departments throughout the university.  Articles include the following topics:

• how a Seattle nonprofit became an international role model for nonprofit entrepreneurs;
• how one social entrepreneur risked everything to employ people who are disabled;
• how a former drug addict and criminal is helping recovering drug users turn their lives around;
• how a state centre for the blind became a $56 million social enterprise;
• how a tiny non-profit has survived without government funding for 50 years,    and many more.

Guy Kawasaki is the CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capitalinvestment bank for high technology companies, and a columnist for'Forbes'. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computercompanies, Guy was one of the individuals responsible for the success of theMacintosh computer. He is also the author of seven books including 'Rulesfor Revolutionaries', 'How to Drive Your Competition Crazy', 'Selling theDream' and 'The Macintosh Way'. His presentation accompanies an audio recording, available on loan on either a tape or CD. Be prepared to laugh!

This is a recording of Jed Emerson's presentation at the 5th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance. Jed Emerson, twice selected by 'The Non-profit Times' as one of its '50 most influential people in the non-profit sector' (USA) does what he does best - challenge the audience to think about the transformation of the sector in new and different ways. Jed is a Senior Fellow with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He is also Lecturer in Business at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His work involves an array of issues related to the development of investment strategies that leverage the greatest value from both philanthropic and market-rate capital in pursuit of a Blended Return on Investment (which includes financial, environmental and socialreturns/metrics). This recording accompanies the slides,as well as the publication, 'The Blended Value Map'.