What did they Say?


 "The social entrepreneur is committed to the good of all, not to self interest." -- #BillDrayton, 

"Biggest risk in life is 'existential risk' - doing something u don't love for yrs." Bornstein

 "Don't think about it in terms of deals. It's about breaking down walls." - Bill Drayton

 Bill drayton says companies that aren't change makers won't survive

Love it! #philanthropy #service @Ashoka: The greatest satisfaction is to help others be givers. -- #BillDrayton, @Ashoka #FutureSocEnt

As much as I wish I could have attended, I am left scouring the scraps, the rough gems, that attendees toss to me via the impersonal Twitter feed. Alas, even the smallest pieces do my heart good. 


The complete account of Bill Drayton's chat with David Bornstein was not made available tonight, according to my knowledge, so we'll have to wait another day. The Daily News and Liquidnet, the NY venue for their discussion offers some commentary on the event: 

Social entrepreneurship is reaching a tipping point. Rapid technological advances and globalization, combined with the blurring of boundaries between the business, public and social sectors, have primed the ground for widespread social change. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the social sector, businesses and government to work together to effect solutions to some of the world's most intractable problems. . . . What will be the tipping point to create an "everyone a change maker" world?

Is Social Entrepreneurship reaching a tipping point? I'd like to think so. A Prologue is certainly a sign of that. No longer are people satisfied with the present ideals put forth by our economic system. No longer are people satisfied to scrape the cream off the top while their neighbors go hungry. No longer do we need to see the world as game field of competition – of win and lose. We can choose to see the world as Win-Win. This is the New World. 

Daily News Provides more on Drayton and Bornstein:

Drayton has been a social entrepreneur since an early age -- during his years as an undergraduate at Harvard and a law student at Yale, he launched a number of organizations, including Yale Legislative Services and Harvard s Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. In 1970, he began his career at McKinsey and Company in New York. From 1977 to 1981, Mr. Drayton served as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he launched emissions trading (the basis of the Kyoto Protocol) and other reforms. In 1981, while working part-time at McKinsey and Company, he founded both Ashoka and Save EPA. 
David Bornstein specializes in writing about social innovation. He is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which was described in The New York Times as must reading for anyone who cares about building a more equitable and stable world. . . . David Bornstein is a journalist and author who focuses on social innovation. He is the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, a new initiative to spread and institutionalize the practice of solutions journalism -- rigorous reporting about creative responses to social problems. He co-authors the popular Fixes  column in The New York Times, a touchstone for the emerging solutions journalism field. 


A note to yall, next time please broadcast the talk live. Please. 

The Tag of the Hour: #FutureSocEnt

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