ASVA Countdown: Can you make the pledge?

It’s Wednesday. Today officially marks 15 weeks until the grand opening of the Asia Social Venture Academy. Yes, that’s 105 days until all of the pioneering social entrepreneurs and energetic young delegates, the training sessions and workshops, the idea exchanges and parties all collide together for one big-bang of social entrepreneurship energy. We on the [...]

Spark Beijing – building the community of innovation in Greater China

The financial crisis has increased our workload over the last year, it is increasingly important to work smart. Innovation training is the key to improving your thinking and the best way to add value to your role, company, and life. As Premier Wen JiaBao said last week, “We will make China a country of innovation.” [...]

Upcoming conference opportunities

Social iCon 23 October 2009, Singapore The Lien Centre for Social Innovation organizes its inaugerational social innovation conference Social iCon on Friday, 23 October 2009. The theme will be transformational social change: the ideas that are catalysing change, the innovations that inspire and enablers such as technology and finance that are often necessary to effect [...]

Conference opportunities

2nd International Conference for Youth Empowerment and Transformation into Sustainable Development 20-22 October 2009, Kampala, Uganda The event is about how we can integrate the youth into sustainable development with a focus of improving their life, how they work and their capacity of creating jobs. SoCap09 September 1-3, 2009, San Francisco, CA ‘Doing well by [...]

2009 Global Youth Enterprise Conference

September 29-30, 2009, Washington/ US Making Cents International’s Global Youth Enterprise Conference provides a demand-driven and participatory learning space where members of all sectors can share information of youth entrepreneurship programs, methodologies, strategies and tools; network to build partnerships; gain new technical capacity; and help build the youth enterprise, employment and livelihoods development field. The [...]

Social Entrepreneurship conferences

Ever wished you could go to an amazing, inspiring, really interesting conference just to find out that it is either to expensive, to far away or simple that the conference happened 2 weeks before you first heard of it? The great news is that most conferences now use social media to dissimilate their message to [...]