How Business Endurance can Change the World: Written in the midst of financial tsunami with the courage to imagine a better world

C.H. Kee and co-author Cheng Man Wah have written a book which is likely to become a standard reference for anyone who is interested in promoting and practicing social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. KK ventured to offer you a summary in English in order for the non-Chinese readers to have a feel for the intent of the authors.

Strategic Volunteering – The Role of the Intrapreneur-Volunteer

As you could imagine, all social enterprises can benefit from leveraging the time and expertise of volunteers. But surprisingly, there are also a large number of social enterprises that are not benefiting from the service of volunteers at all. What is more, there are plenty of highly qualified, motivated would-be volunteers who want to help but do not know how and where to make a contribution. What makes for this unusual and pitiful state of affairs?

Singapore Social Innovators’ Forum and Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2007

KK attended the Social Innovators’ Forum (December 14 & 15, 2007) organized by the Social Innovation Park in conjunction with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Here are his insights from the trip and the inspiring stories of the three finalists in the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007.

Social Venture Partners – The Venture Capital Approach to Philanthropy

When someone has a huge sum of money for charitable causes, he can set up a foundation with its own mission and full-time staff to manage it. For the ordinary folks who are occasional donors, they could only make the donations and hope for the best. But what about those in between these two extremes? There is a full spectrum of people with varying degree of wealth, knowledge, expertise and dedication to social causes. Beside donation, is there a better way to give?