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Check Out Our Post on the SEE Change Magazine blog

May 17, 2010 in media, social entrepreneurship, social ventures by Jennifer King

SEE Change Magazine, Canada’s first (and fabulous) publication for and about social enterprise and entrepreneurship, just posted Capacity Waterloo Region’s recap of Venture4Change. Check it out and let us know what you think: Ben & Jerry’s founder gives us the scoop at the Venture4Change summit. While you’re there, subscribe to their free monthly updates to get the latest on their next issue. They’re also on Twitter at @seechangemag.

Venture4Change Pics Up on Flickr

April 25, 2010 in pics by Jennifer King

Check out Capacity Waterloo Region’s Venture4Change set on Flickr. More to come.

Venture4Change Twitter Wall

April 3, 2010 in Uncategorized by Trevor Stafford

We’re adding a Twitter wall at Venture4Change, for all our Twitter fans. Follow us before, during, and after!

Brandaid Project Haiti in the News

April 3, 2010 in Uncategorized by Trevor Stafford

Check out Tuesday’s Globe and Mail article on Brandaid Haiti and its work in Jacmel. Tony Piggot, one of our country’s sharpest marketing minds, is kicking off Venture4Change. Along with Cameron Brohman and Academy-award winning director, Paul Haggis, Tony founded Brandaid Project as a radical new idea bringing modern marketing, design and celebrity power to developing world master artisan communities so they can gain access to worldwide and better markets.

Brandaid started in Haiti and the recent earthquake had a huge impact on Brandaid artisans. Come hear how Brandaid is responding to the challenge.

Social Innovation, An Ice Cream Tub at a Time

April 3, 2010 in Uncategorized by Trevor Stafford

Ben & Jerry’s has paved the way for business as a tool for social change. On March 29, come hear Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, tell us how they did it.

We’ve all heard some of their fun and famous flavours – Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – but Ben & Jerry’s is perhaps as well known for its focus on doing business while doing good. Community action, sustainable and safe food production, Peace Pops, and the PartnerShop Program. All part of the ice cream maker’s social mission, which has been part of its three-part mission statement since the ’80’s.

“If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless,” Jerry has said. “It’s a process of innovation.” Business as a Tool for Social Change: An Afternoon of Radical Business Philosophy with Jerry Greenfield will be a tribute to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit, full of anecdotes and the radical business philosophy that is at the heart of Ben & Jerry’s.