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due 1/15

  • Sign up for a day to be notetaker (below)
  • Finish writing bios on the wiki
  • Read or listen to All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones and
  • in pairs, research 6 socially entrepreneurial organizations
  • sign up your pair & your organizations below
  • Write 2 paragraphs on each and post to the Organizations page. Include what they do, and why you find them interesting
  • Link to good articles and sources
  • Pick 2 of the 6 and make a 2-minute presentation in class next week; no overlaps
  • please indicate by Sunday which two organizations your pair will present on next week
  • Need ideas? check out our brainstorm (nearly all are in the Bay Area), or the 2008 Social Capitalist Awards

    due 1/22


    choose 1:

    choose 1:

    post 2 reading questions for each article you selected

    further reading (optional)

    due 1/29


    • read Now the Good News by Keith Hammonds, Fast Company
      • revised: no reading questions
    • skim sections of Investing in Society by Meehan, Kilmer, and O'Flanagan,Stanford Social Innovation Review
      • sections: "The Social Capital Market", "The Efficiency Question", "Expect a Social Return", "What Impact, Efficiency?"
      • no reading questions
    • choose an organization (can be one of the 6 you originally researched) and post a short paragraph on the Organizations page on what makes it socially entrepreneurial
    • revised: research Kevin Jones, Principal at Good Capital who will be the guest speaker for 1/29.


    due 2/5

      • read pages 1-5, 7-12
      • read the profile on one organization from pgs 12-14 (Cadbury Chocolates, Salvation Army, or Goodwill)
      • read the profile on one organization from pgs 15-18 (Evergreen Lodge, Wolf's Neck Farms Natural Beef, or Springboard forward)
    • post 2 discussion questions

    due 2/12


    due 2/19

    • Readings:
    • Bring 1 or more interesting/weird items that you own to class, and a story about how you got it/them.
    • Make sure you did last week's reading and posted questions, because we're going to talk about it in class this week (and use it.)

    due 2/26



    due 3/4

    In week 9 we will discuss socially responsible business/corporate social responsibility and the mainstreaming of social movements, using environmental sustainability as a case study. Focus especially on the motivations of corporations, and the ethics & effectiveness of their actions.

    • read one of the following articles:

    • further reading
      • interview with Paul Rice of Transfair USA by Britt Bravo, Have Fun*Do Good
        • mainstreaming from the perspective of an NGO partnering with corporations to sell fair trade products; section on Starbucks particularly pertinent
      • Just Good Business, The Economist
        • introduction article to a special report section on corporate social responsibility in the Economist; many of the other articles are also quite informative
      • Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility by David Cavett-Goodwin, CulturalShifts
        • interesting frameworks for separating out dfferent motivations and strategies in CSR; uses Sara-Lee, Starbucks, and The Body Shop as case studies

    due 3/10

        • revised: research Fiona Ramsey, PR Director at Kiva.

        due by Saturday 3/22 (day before the trip)

        • revised: fill out a briefing sheet on the spring break speaker or organization you signed up for. Tip: fill it out in the Word document first, available here: [speaker] [organization]
            • Email a copy of the filled out Word doc to Sophia, CC'ing Travis
            • Post content to the appropriate wiki page
          • revised: Refering to your briefing sheet, prepare a 5 minute presentation on your speaker/organization

          due Mon 3/25

          • read Chapter 1 of Forces for Good by Heather McLeod Grant, who's coming to speak on the first day of the trip (19 pages);pages). You will have some free time on Sunday afternoon, so you can finish PDFthe reading then, if you attachedwish. below.