Creating Infectious Action through Social Enterprise

calendar April 24th, 2007 by md

I am involved in teaching two courses this quarter at Stanford. One is titled Creating Infectious Action which I co-teach with a wonderful group of faculty from academia and industry. It’s essentially a project-based class focused on why ideas or behaviors “spread” in the Gladwell-ian sense, and “stick” in the Heath-ian sense. We are holding a mid-course mini-conference on May 3 to mark the start of our second project of the quarter. Since the project is in the social enterprise sector, we thought it would be a good idea to focus the mini-conference on the same topic. It’s open to the entire Stanford community — which by extension I think includes you if you want to come. Here are the details. I hope you can make it.

CIA: Creating Infectious Action through Social Enterprise

A d.school Mini-Conference

May 3, 2007 – 3:30PM – 6:45PM

Hewlett 200 Auditorium

3:30 – 3:35 Opening – Debra Dunn, d.school

3:35 – 4:05 Growth Capital for Social Enterprise – Jim Fruchterman – Founder & CEO, Benetech

4:05 – 4:50 Enabling Direct Global Philanthropy – Dennis Whittle and Mari Kurashi, Co-Founders, Global Giving

4:50 – 5:20 Person-to-Person Micro-lending – Jessica Flannery, co-founder Kiva.org

5:20 – 5:30 Break

5:30 – 6:00 Panel Discussion with Q&A – Facilitated by Debra Dunn

6:00 – 6:10 Closing comments – CIA-KGB Faculty

6:10 – 6:45 Reception in the lobby with drinks and snacks

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3 Responses to “Creating Infectious Action through Social Enterprise”

  1. Ruth, on May 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm Said:

    Tell us more about the humane society gathering?

  2. md, on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm Said:

    Good point. I will do that in another post.
    MD

  3. GG, on May 5th, 2007 at 5:03 pm Said:

    wished I lived closer to attend

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