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Impact & Insight: March 2020

News, ideas, research in social entrepreneurship and philanthropy, from the Marshall Institute
 
📢 News

This month: Should we rely on billionaires help solve the world's problems? The Guardian's Simon Jenkins argues we should not, while Bill Gates, who recently committed $100m to help fight covid-19, believes we have little choice.

International Women's Day this year aimed to highlight the economic implications of gender inequality. Hilary Pennington, of the Ford Foundation, writes that while there has been significant progress towards equality in the workplace, business is still a hundred years away from closing the gender gap. Yet, Sophie Hobson, of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, points out that an estimated 45% of the world's social entrepreneurs are female. This statistic, Hobson argues, reveals the sector is notably more gender balanced than business in general.

Plus: social enterprise and the UK budget; an economist's view of the covid-19 outbreak; and how to create unstoppable success. Jobs in impact investing; a social impact fellowship in Berlin; and volunteer opportunities in the Philippines, Colombia and Kenya.
🎫 Events 

13-15 March + other 2020 dates Women of the World (WOW), New York; WOW Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 April; WOW Istanbul, 25– 27 September; WOW Rio de Janeiro, 16–18 November

14 March: Creative and Social Entrepreneurs Panel Event - Celebrating International Women's Day
Free event & all welcome | London

17 March: Gender Finance Lab
An educational workshop that aims to build awareness, understanding and skills relevant to gender lens investing. Aimed at impact investment and social enterprise practitioners | Oxford

17-18 March: Responsible Investment Australia
Conference | Sydney

18 March:
Putting Social Enterprise Research into Practice: a PLACE Model of Community Development
Lecture by Dr Natalie Slawinski, Centre for Social Enterprise, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Judge Business School | Cambridge, UK

20 March: Future Fest 2020 - a survival kit for the future
Speakers include Louis Theroux, Elif Shafak, Gail Bradbrook. Nesta | London

28-29 March: Africa’s Decade: Now or Never
LSE's 7th Annual Africa Summit
| London

2 April: Impact Agora launch event
Impact Agora aims to build a community of
over 40 accelerators, fund managers, investor networks, corporates, family offices, advisers, foundations and wealth managers - a community committed to impact-driven entrepreneurs and funds | Barclays, London

12-14 May: Frontiers of Social Innovation
Conference, Stanford University | US

5-7 June: Map the System, Global Final Event
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School | Oxford

1-3 September: 12th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC)
Call for papers. Sheffield University Management School | Sheffield


NB: events are being postponed or cancelled due to covid-19, so please check details
We are....

📚 Reading:  
Boards of philanthropic foundations are 99% white, compared to 92% in the wider charity sector, and male Trustees outnumber female Trustees by two to one | Forbes (3 min)
 
UK Budget 'underwhelming' - Social Enterprise UK
Charity sector responds to this week's budget | Civil Society News (3 min)


Non-profits work hard to protect employees and volunteers as coronavirus threat grows
Travel restrictions, remote working and better communications | Chronicle of Philanthropy (2 min)

Bill Gates: How to prepare for Covid-19 (and prepare for the next epidemic too)
Gates Notes (6 min)

We can't leave it to billionaires like Bezos and Bloomberg to solve the world's problems
It’s up to government to tax and spend for the good of all, and not the mega-rich seeking a warm glow argues
Simon Jenkins | The Guardian (2 min)

How Business Can and Should Solve Social Problems

Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School (2 min)

Teaching sustainability: How MBAs are combining mainstream with green-stream
Business schools increase focus on ‘responsible and ethical leadership' | Financial Times (5 min)

The statistics behind the spread of ideas
Tim Harford (4 min)

Why women succeed at social entrepreneurship
Sophie Hobson, of the School for Social Entrepreneurs | Thomson Reuters Foundation (4 min)


The Unfinished Business of Gender Equality
Hilary Pennington, Ford Foundation, argues women are still a hundred years away from closing the gender gap. (5 min)
 

How Thomas Piketty Lost Touch with Reality
Piketty wants to transform European politics. But he ignores the real concerns of most people, argues
Paul Collier | New Statesman (6 min)

Are Economists Really this Stupid?
Tom Chivers critiques Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future, by Mervyn King and John Kay | Unherd (5 min)



🔊 Listening to:

The Capitalisn't of Coronavirus
An economist view of the coronavirus outbreak. How should we think about the economic trade-offs of interventionist quarantine measures, could this virus change the way we work? | Capitalisn't podcast (43 min)

Power, Philanthropy and Inequality
Less than 2% of global philanthropic capital is dedicated to climate causes despite the widely shared view that climate represents a genuine and urgent crisis. | LSE (60 min)

Why this entrepreneur left the city to start a Modern Day Farm and Eco-Community
Disruptors for Good podcast | Cause Artist (59 min)

Storytelling and Social Change: Inside Social Innovation
Stanford Social Innovation Review (40 min)

Utopia or Bust: Designing a Non Self-Terminating Civilization
With Daniel Schmachtenberger, social engineer and evolutionary philosopher and strategist. He is also Founder of Critical Path Institute and The Emergence Project | Spotify (87 min)



📺 Watching: 

The Future is Hers
Ford Foundation celebrates women changemakers | YouTube (0.40 min)


5 Documentaries Every Social Entrepreneur Should Watch
The list was compiled in 2018, but includes now-classic films to inspire social entrepreneurs, including: The True Cost, Real Value and One Dollar a Day (various)

How to Create Unstoppable Success
With Marie Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable | How to Academy (84 min).

Impact: Alumni News

18Bond, a proposal to issue a universal grant to all young Italians turning 18, won first place in last month's prestigious Global Public Policy Network conference. The winning team was made up of five LSE Master of Public Administration students: Carmen Mira, Filippo Maria Bandini, Zakaria Bekkali, Antonia Ramm and Victoria Suárez-Rubio (below).

🔎 New research

Impact Investing: a theory of financing social entrepreneurship
The author presents a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists
. Benjamin N Roth, Associate Professor of Business Adminstration, Harvard Business School. Pub Feb 2020.

Awards, Fellowships, Internships, Volunteer...
 
1. Impact Investing Institute Internships. Available on a rolling basis

2. Social Impact and Career Growth Fellowship, Moving Worlds. Berlin and remote. Open to early- to mid-career professionals from across all sectors. Applications close April 30

3. Lanterne is seeking a detail-oriented intern. Currently half a day a week on a voluntary basis. The position could grow. Lanterne is an award-winning social enterprise run by LSE alumni


4. Volunteer for the Grameen Foundation, Bankers without Borders programme. Two-week placements in Kenya, Philippines & Colombia

5. Resolution Fellowships offers seed funding and support to current undergraduates and college students who are also aspiring social entrepreneurs. Register interest & listen to the podcast: Forming Socially Responsible Young Leaders
Apply: 10th Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East. Applications for the prize, which recognises technological projects with a positive impact that improve living conditions, opened this week. Closing date June 5th. Image above shows 2019 winners.
Jobs and Job Boards...

CEO iSE. iSE is a B2B social enterprise whose purpose is to grow the social enterprise sector in Birmingham and beyond. Closing date March 22.

+ One Acre Fund, Senior Product Manager, Kigali, Rwanda

+ Impact Assessment Manager. Overdeck Family Foundation. New York, NY

+ Nesta, The Innovation Foundation, are looking for an investment manager and also an investment analyst to join its new Arts and Culture Finance team. Closing date March 23

+ more: Social Enterprise UK Sector Jobs Board.... PLUS latest social sector job opportunities worldwide.... via the Skoll Community Jobs Board; the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN); B Work global impact jobs site; 80,000 Hours Jobs Board & Responsible Investor jobs.
🎓 Courses & resources...

Purpose and Profit
Intensive summer course for business executives and innovators. 8 – 12 June 2020. LSE

Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship
The Marshall Institute

MOOC: Becoming a changemaker
Introduction to social innovation. Free six-week course. Bertha Centre & RLabs

School for Social Entrepreneurs offers low-cost day courses all over the UK

Start your Social Enterprise
A free, practical guide to setting up and managing a social enterprise. Published by Social Enterprise UK.
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