ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs

If you are in Boston area and would like to join the conversation on social entrepreneurship, TIE Boston Social Entrepreneurs Group is hosting our annual conference - ForSE 2009: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs on Friday Oct 23. This year it is co-hosted with Babson College’s Net Impact Undergrad organization at Babson College in Wellesley, Ma. The forum brings together social innovators, leading business professionals, investors, donors, academics, and students to help share new technology and business ideas with social impact.
 
We urge you to sign up as soon as possible as the past two years we sold out days before the event and many were disappointed. We try to make the event as interactive and intimate as possible and keep total attendance capped to 250.

Please sign up at tie-boston.org.

Keynoters this year are

    * Pamela Hawley, co-founder VolunteerMatch and founder/CEO Universal Giving,
    * Leonard A. Schlesinger, President, Babson College,
    * Carol Cone Founder and Chair, Cone LLC.
    * Andre Porter, Executive Director, Massachusetts Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Panels on leading issues including:

    * Microfinance for Investors
    * Social Media for Social Entrepreneurs
    * Valuing Social Enterprises
    * Sustainable Ventures for Non Profits

Speakers include

    * Paresh Patel, CEO, Sandstone Capital
    * Deborah Drake, VP Accion
    * Tryfan Evans, Director, OmidyarTufts Fund
    * Rodney North, Equal Exchange
    * Jodi Tillinger, Founder, More than Words
    * Jack Freele, Owner, New England Rainbarrel
    * Susan Musinsky, Director, Social Innovation Forum
    * Shruti Sehra, Manager Portfolio team, New Profit
    * Miguel Granier, Founder, Invested Development
    * John Haydon, Social Media Consultant
    * Kate Brodock, Founder & Principal, Other Side Group
    * Tushneem Dharmagadda, Advisor and Director, India School Fund

In depth case discussions and brainstorming solutions to assist three organizations:

    * Equal Exchange, an innovative cooperative farming enterprise
    * Lokvani.com, an online news service for the South Asian community
    * Peacetones.org, building peace, teaching legal rights and creating opportunities everywhere.

Judges for the Pitch contest include

    * Sushil Bhatia, Suffolk University
    * John Harthorne, CEO, MassChallenge
    * Daniel Epstein, Founder & President, Unreasonable Institute
    * Prof. Benyamin Lichtenstein, UMass Boston, College of Management
    * Angelo Santinelli, Babson College, Entrepreneurship Division

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