The Dollar AND Difference Show

Welcome to this latest installment in Social Entrepreneurship 101. If you missed the other lessons, check out the audio versions here. Today, let’s chat about your partners who’ll help you build your venture.

The fundamental truth of social entrepreneurship is this: we’re all in it together. Social entrepreneurs are the most generous, caring, and helpful people on the planet.  But we’re also business minded.  So, as you create your movement, come up with ways to create synergies that result in a win for all parties involved.

Welcome back to our series on social entrepreneurship!  I’m working to get you the basic foundation you’d need to get rolling as a social entrepreneur.  Oh, and btw, if you didn’t catch the first parts of the series, I’ll be posting it all on the podblog. Click here if you missed out.

Today will be a longer one, but we’re going to be covering a really important topic: how to create a product or service that will be your business and drive your social good efforts.  Let’s start things off with a quote from a social entrep

What’s krackin’?  I hope you’ve been having a swell day, and are ready to rock your Friday with some words of wisdom about social change. Before we break into today's lesson on social entrepreneurship, I wanted to apologize that I haven't put out a 'best of' episode of the podcast here in a bit.  That's my bad, and I'll work to get it rolling again soon.  The reason is exciting - our new podcast has been a blast and taking up good chunks of our time, but still, no reason we can't get some best of episodes in your earbuds.  I'll work on that this weekend and get those rolling again.  

Alright, 'nuff said on that...You’ll remember last week in social entre 101 we chatted about crafting your why (remember, if you’re still having trouble on that, hit ‘reply’ and I’ll help you).  So, I’m assuming you’ve started that up (don’t worry if it’s far from perfect - the key

I mentioned that you can get a $1k grant to start your social venture in this podcast - click here for more info.

“We’ve got trouble?”

“We’ve got trouble?”

It was the 5th time in about as many days that I’d heard this question from Arion.  Despite the fact that it typically followed one of his many classroom disturbances, it always made me smile inwardly. The little dude was a troublemaker to be sure, but he was also one of my favorite

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What’s happenin’?  I really can’t tell you how excited I am for the things we have on the horizon here at Change Nation.  From the reformatted

Hey Change Nation! This is the fourth week in July of our series featuring the 'Best of SCN'! Focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting, I believe this interview will be interesting to many. This week we discuss an area of social entrepreneurship that Social Change Nation is very passionate about: Urban Innovation. Clara Brenner, the founder and director of the Tumml has been able to change urban cities and for good with her non-profit urban venture accelerator Tumml! Their mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. With a hands-on approach, Tumml provides entrepreneurs with the tools to help scale their impact and enhance quality of life in cities everywhere.  Clara shares many stories of urban impact ventures that have solved

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Hey & happy Friday!

Hey Change Nation! This is the third week of our series featuring the "Best of SCN"! Focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting, this week we are bringing back my interview with Pure Joy Fo

An audio version of the blog post for the week.  Josh goes one on one to chat about the latest in his life and journey toward becoming an agent for social change.