Calling All Social Entrepreneurs for Duke Study

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-05 11:13:00 UTC
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I'm posting this important announcement from our friends at Duke. Its great to see the growing profile of social entrepreneurship and enterprise on university campuses, aided in large part by groups like Ashoka U and by researchers and professors like Greg Dees and Cathy Clark. Please take a minute to help them out:

With funding from the Skoll Foundation, Greg Dees and Cathy Clark have launched a three-year project at Duke to explore how social entrepreneurs' business model choices can maximize social impact. They are currently conducting an online survey of social entrepreneurs, forprofit and nonprofit, globally.

They are working on this with leading funds and membership groups in the Social Entrepreneurship space, including: Acumen Fund, Ashoka, B Lab, Columbia Business School/ RISE, Dasra, Draper Richards Foundation, Global Social Venture Competition, Great Bay Foundation, Investors' Circle, NESsT, RSF Social Finance, SJF Ventures, the Skoll Foundation, Social Enterprise Alliance, Social Venture Network, and many others.

If you are a for-profit or nonprofit social entrepreneur, we invite you to take their online survey, here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4LBk4_2bVd8g6C4W5UF37mSg_3d_3d

If you know of others who might want to be part of our work, please forward this link to them.

Ultimately, they will be reporting on findings in the aggregate, and using the data to create a set of tools, articles, and case studies to help nonprofit and for-profit social entrepreneurs make better business model decisions based on the lessons of their peers. All survey participants may sign up to receive a summary of their findings.

We hope you'll be part of this important work to improve the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship.

Questions? Contact Cathy Clark, cathy@cathyhc.com

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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