we’re screwed. now what are you gonna do about it?

Social Innovation @ Ivey ForumMarch 24, 2010

First, a bit about...

me

unschooler

runner

entrepreneur

1991 2010

‘founding’

‘working’

‘career path’

Life is messy and unpredictable.

I don’t know what I’m doing.

Everything I do...

teaches me about what i’m good at...

connects me with people I can do more

stuff with...

challenges me to look deeper and ask...

What’s the point?

13,700,000,000 years ago

4,450,000,000 years ago

130,000 years ago

7,300 years ago - Agriculture

150 years ago - Industrial Revolution

We are powerful.

1945 - Hiroshima

We are dangerous.

1983 - Exxon Valdez Spill

1994 - Rwanda

2000 - Aral Sea dies

We thought we were in control.

2001 - 911

2006 - Climate Change

2008 - Global markets collapse

We were wrong.

“A flaw in the model...

...that defines how the world works.”

WE

...are making our planet inhospitable.

We are killing each other.

We are killing ourselves.

We’re screwed.

But, there’s hope.

If we created this mess...

... then we can create

something better.

social entrepreneurship = creating a better world

it happens...at many levels

social benefit

social impact

systems change

it happens... through many forms

Non-profitSocial

Enterprise

Social Purpose Business

For-profit

social movements

government

it happens...using many tools

Social Innovation

technology

financepolicy

but it all starts... with people

Prof. Muhammad Yunus

Tzeporah Berman

Tom Szaky

it all starts with...

you

what are you going to do?

Michael Lewkowitz, Igniter

michael@igniter.comhttp://igniter.com

twitter etc. “Igniter”