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In This Issue...

CASE Corner with Greg Dees: Entrepreneurship in Philanthropy

CASE News

Research: Pay Attention to the Behavioral Details

Business Skills in the Social Sector: NESsT Promotes Business Ethics

Conference on Social Enterprise

SE@Work: Social Enterprise at Work in Bulgaria

SE in the Classroom: Social Enterprise Goes to School

Contact

CASE
The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
case@fuqua.duke.edu

J. Gregory Dees
Faculty Director

Beth Battle Anderson
Managing Director

Matthew T.A. Nash
Associate Director

John Kalafatas
Senior Research Associate

Pam Wilson
Program Coordinator

Resources

Social Enterprise Reporter - CASE Discount! Read more

Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team (NESsT)

CASE Social Enterprise Conference Materials

MBA Enterprise Corps

2005 Statewide Conference for North Carolina's Nonprofit Sector

Ashoka Changemakers.net Innovation Award Competition:
Market-Based Strategies that Benefit Low-Income Communities

$100,000 Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award

For a more comprehensive list of resources, see the resources section of the CASE website.

CASE Corner-by Professor J. Gregory Dees

Entrepreneurship in Philanthropy

Entrepreneurship occurs in all spheres of productive human endeavor, including philanthropy. It is the major force for progress. In this article, I will address what it means to be an entrepreneur in philanthropy and outline a range of entrepreneurial strategies in philanthropy.

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Business Skills in the Social Sector

NESsT Promotes Business Ethics in the Field of Social Enterprise

NESst logoAnticipating the need to maintain the trust of social sector stakeholders, NESsT has drawn upon best practices in the private and social sectors to develop the first "code of ethics" designed to help social enterprise leaders recognize and better prepare for the unique ethical challenges of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector.

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Fuqua Alumni and Nonprofits Benefit from Conference on Social Enterprise

Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and Duke Law School’s Community Enterprise Clinic (CEC) teamed up June 1 to help nonprofit organizations understand how they can use business strategies to help support their charitable endeavors, co-sponsoring a one-day conference on the theme, “Developing Earned Income Strategies to Enhance Social and Community Impact.”

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SE @ Work
Dolls

Social Enterprise at Work in Bulgaria

In a small, tired municipal building in the Gotse Delchev district of Sofia, surrounded by block apartment buildings, a few women are working patiently to change the nature of economic development and social support in Bulgaria. They would not describe their endeavors this way: to them, they are simply doing what they can to help socially disadvantaged people in Bulgaria. They work from their hearts. They did not set out to effect economic change or become part of a concept of generating income that questions more than the profit motive. But they are an impressive example of what is possible for Bulgaria.

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CASE News

ATTENTION STUDENTS: Day in Durham, August 27th!

City Year and Timberland Leaders to Speak at the 2005 Coach K & Fuqua School of Business Conference on Leadership

Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp Receives CASE Award

CASE Awards First Social Sector Scholarships

Give a Day Campaign Funds CASE Summer Internships

CASE Welcomes Senior Research Associate John Kalafatas

Research

Want to Have Impact?
Pay Attention to the Behavioral Details

Effecting social change often requires changing behavior, and little things can make a major difference when it comes to behavior. Princeton Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Eldar Shafir delivered this powerful message in a presentation on the behavioral economics of poverty at a recent conference at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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SE in the Classroom

Social Enterprise Goes to School

The turn of the millennium has seen the rise of a vast array of campus-based programs that train MBAs and not-for-profit professionals in the areas of social enterprise and nonprofit management. Led by many of the world's top business schools, these endeavors signal that social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have gained strong cultural legitimacy.

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