Feel dwarfed by the social challenge you’re tackling? Then you’re in good company.
This April, UC Berkeley Haas and Duke Fuqua Schools of Business will host David Haskell to present on the paradoxical power of weakness to leverage mission impact. But Berkeley and Duke graduate students are anything but weak. These MBA programs rank among the top ten worldwide for social entrepreneurship and nonprofit management. Continue reading Too Weak to Fail: Haskell at Berkeley and Duke
Dreams InDeed hosted a conflict resolution practitioner in Amman, Jordan from December 9 to 11 to convene with a community mobilization expert. Bringing formidable experience to the table, each collaborated with Dreams InDeed staff to design a Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) for an at-risk community. Continue reading Synergizing Dreams and Talent
Are values such as love and respect mere sentimentality, just marketing slogans? Or are they pivotal to delivering social enterprise impact? A case from Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring answers that question definitively. The Olayan School of Business at AUB featured David Haskell in its Mikati Corporate Social Responsibility Speaker Series. Continue reading Haskell Presented a Social Enterprise Case at the American University of Beirut
Social Enterprise Alliance Annual Summit convened in Chicago from October 30 to November 2, 2011. On November 2, David Haskell presented the Dreams InDeed networked approach for mission impact and a case from Egypt on a panel chaired by the Duke University Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship on Strategy Drivers for Growth: Scaling Social Impact: Exploring Strategies Beyond Replication and Growth (Nash, Bohen, Hall, Haskell, Trask). Continue reading Social Enterprise Alliance Summit
David Haskell and Jane Wei-Skillern of Stanford Graduate School of Business and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business co-presented a case from Egypt on the networked approach for mission impact at Growing Social Impact in a Networked World: A Grantmakers’ Gathering on Networks. Continue reading Growing Social Impact in a Networked World
A simple, yet powerful formula. Innovative Social Entrepreneurs + Committed Social Investors = Synergy on Social Dilemmas
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David Haskell is one of the most articulate, inspiring speakers I’ve ever heard.
Continue reading EPCON 2011: Better Together; Tweeters Respond to Haskell’s Keynote
Bludgeons. Tear gas. Water cannon. Live ammunition. Upheaval is rocking the Middle East.
We tracked the action on-line while on assignment in Southeast Asia. A photo-journalist who’d covered our dreamers in Beirut was man-handled in Cairo’s alleys. Our Egyptian friends dropped into a black hole with internet and phone service severed.
And then, we suddenly got a line back into Cairo! Continue reading New Dreams in Harder Places
Their mission is noble.
Social Venture Partners (SVP) aim to catalyze significant long-term positive social change in their communities by developing lifelong philanthropists, and by building the capacity of investee nonprofits for sustained impact. Continue reading Dreaming of Synergy: Haskell Delivered Keynote to Social Venture Partners
Nearly 200 people rose to their feet and clapped enthusiastically. Richard and I standing in the back of the room were speechless. View SVP powerpoint presentation. Continue reading Social Venture Partners Rise to the Challenge
Richard Speck, VP of Operations for Dreams InDeed International, will present at the 18th Annual Nonprofit Conference on Sustainability Strategies sponsored by the Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation. Continue reading Systems to Keep Dreams Alive: Speck to Present at Arizona State
“It’s broken!” A phrase no one likes to hear. Brokenness touches all areas of life – objects, the environment, relationships, bodies, spirits. Each of us is broken one way or another. For some, brokenness strikes suddenly and on many levels. Take Omar. “I can’t feel my legs! What happened? Why can’t I feel my legs?!”
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