Gustav Borgefalk stod i centrum för Frukostklubben upplaga nr 6. Gustav talade om sitt inspirationmissbruk, Disney-filmer och reciterade Will Smith.
Björn Paulsson från Open Entrepreneurship filmade föreläsningen. Inom kort kan ni som intehade möjlighet att närvara på Breakfast Club se Gustav här på bloggen.
Med start på torsdag drar Vildmaksmässan igång. Tillsammans med tidningen Outside, ska bland annat cyklisten Alexander Amprazis, Klättermusen och Young Investors Erica Sandelin och Erik Hällås imorgon kväll prata om Socialt Entreprenörskap ETT SÄTT ATT GÖRA GOTT OCH HA ROLIGT. Kolla in hela programmet på Outsides hemsida.
18.00 Drar vi igång ute på Stockholmsmässan!
Kom med ut och bli inspirerade!
”The idea of “social entrepreneurship” has struck a responsive chord. It is a phrase well suited to our times. It combines the passion of a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination commonly associated with, for instance, the high-tech pioneers of Silicon Valley. The time is certainly ripe for entrepreneurial approaches to social problems. Many governmental and philanthropic efforts have fallen far short of our expectations. Major social sector institutions are often viewed as inefficient, ineffective, and unresponsive. Social entrepreneurs are needed to develop new models for a new century.”
- J. Gregory Dees, The Meaning of “Social Entrepreneurship” Original Draft: October 31, 1998 Reformatted and revised: May 30, 2001
A few weeks ago all Young Investors gathered at a annual meeting to discuss our past results and visions for the current year. It is so extremely inspiring to sit in the same room with a group of people in which each and everyone of them has a very special spark: we all see great potential in YI and are committed to contribute our share in making it true. That made me reflect upon what we are and where are we going. Funny enough but in my high school years I almost whished there would be some big revolution that I could go and demonstrate! But things were quite calm and instead we played some games and went out. We are lucky enough to have been brought up in a fairly leisurous world but that does not mean that all is perfect. It is not uncommon to heard that youth is apatic, we can’t be bothered by politics and even less care about the social problems. Generalising is once again misleading. We might not go out and demonstrate, we might not go and vote that very often, don’t start petitions but than again this is what our parents did and we don’t want to do this the same way as our parents didJ As mentioned we grew up in a different world; just as we’ve adapted to numerous new technologies have we found new ways of expressing ourselves and being active. We might not be Che Gueavaras neither Pancho Villa but at the same time we are not threatened by an ideology. Different time, different people, different problems and different way of dealing with them. I believe social entrepreneurship is the future of dealing with social problems. Not only that, I like to see it as the common future business form. We can’t just be taking and grabbing and not giving back a part of it, moreover we can’t just be giving in eternity because we’ve already learned that does not work. You don’t have to work yourself nuts and starve when you’re trying to solve a problem. It simply is not sustainable. Getting payed for work has never been wrong and if you’re gaining in personal growth and network at the same time: even better! That’s what we are: modern days revolutionaries thriving to move mountains of dated economic and charity forms! It is also great to see more and more similar initiatives around us: one I read about just today is Entreprenörsjakten.. definitely worth reading and learning from it!
//Vanja
Två dagar före Vasaloppet är det fantastiskt att annonsera på bloggen att Young Investor Erik Hällås har tagit sig an utmaningen en Svensk Klassiker under det kommande året. En Svensk Klassiker innebär att man genomför loppen; Vasaloppet, Vätternrudan, Vansbrosimmet och slutligen Lidingöloppet, i följd under en tolvmånadersperiod.
Inte nog med att Erik ska ta sig igenom alla loppen (som jag är helt övertygad om att han kommer göra med bravur) gör han det dessutom av en god orsak. Erik ska genomföra loppen för Young Investors (www.younginvestors.se) som verkar för Hungerprojektet (www.hungerprojektet.se).
Så här säger Erik själv: För egen del har det känts fantastiskt bra att genomföra detta ”för en god sak” och det har verkligen underlättat kämpandet och lyft mitt sinne under alla timmar ute i spåret. Jag hoppas att några av er känner att det är värt slitet så att jag når mitt mål; att samla in 10 000 kr!”
Klart du kommer nå ditt mål Erik! Och nu på söndag är alltså första etapen Vasaloppet. För er som vill följa Erik i spåret surfa in här och beställ smsuppdateringar med Eriks startnummer 9684. Eller följ oss på Twitter där vi skickar vidare smsen.
Om du vill bidra till Eriks insamling eller har någon fråga så maila på erik@younginvestors.se.
Stort lycka till på söndag Erik!
Förra veckan hade vi årsmöte, här är en kort sammanfattning av vad vi kom fram till:
- Som partnerorganisation under 2010 valdes återigen Hungerprojektet
- Nya styrelsen består av
Louise Hamilton, ordförande
Carl Waldenor, ledamot och kassör
Antonia von Euler, ledamot
Filippa Odevall, ledamot
Caroline Trege, suppleant
Richard Feigin, suppleant
Erica Sandelin och Jonatan Raber avtackades för sitt år som styrelseledamöter.
- Några preliminära aktiviteter för 2010 är: Vildmarksmässan (i veckan!), Klassikern, Marathon, Young Art, Young Music, Young Voters och Breakfast club.
- Målsättningen är att samla in 300 000 kr
Vi ser fram emot ett år tillsammans med nya medlemmar och Hungerprojektet!
It’s never easy to go up at 6 in the morning to go for a seminar. Though, for a Young Investors Breakfast Club presenting so exciting speaker as Judith it was definitely worth an effort. It was great to see so many showing up. With coffee and a snack in our laps everyone was ready for the exciting world of social media.
The talk about social media has been around for quite a while and as Judith said it might seem scary and confusing at the beginning but if you give some though and time to get to know it, it might make worthwhile. I can’t agree more especially when it comes to the enormous amounts of information and knowledge out there just waiting to be consumed. At the same time we should not forget the vast possibilities for our own expression – the democratic potentials of Internet. Not only can I read about all possible forms of for example economic activities and theories but also at the same time I am able to take part in the dialogue. We are able to express our own opinions, share our thoughts and debate around issues and topics we’re interested in. And with 1,733,993,741 Internet users around the globe you must be able to find people with similar interests. I guess that is the beauty of it: giving and receiving!
Then there’s a question of usability and as many ask themselves: is it worth spending all that time and effort? I believe an answer to that can be quite individual or as Judith said there is no worth in blogging or twittering if you don’t think it’s fun. Well even if you try very hard the readers will sooner or later see through that and just loose interest. And it is exactly that same principle that counts for corporate twitters: the fundamental principle of social media is mutual agreement of communicating two-ways. Passive, static and one-way tools/texts/sites is hard to see as sustainable in the long run.
And what did I learn today? I mostly got even more excited and inspired by the vast possibilities that social media offers. Young Investors as a non-profit organisation and members as individuals should we take advantage of that in our mission of spreading social entrepreneurship. Not only promoting it but if I dream a bit also moving the mountains of conventional commercial forms of doing business.
Hope to see you at the next Breakfast Club #6, 10th March 2010.
Från Vanja
Yep. Hans Rosling, professor of International Health, is coming to town, and not alone… Åsa Skogström, CEO of Hunger Project Sweden, will be joining him talking about International Health and Sustainable Development. I strongly recommend all Young Investors’ members to sign up for this very interesting evening…
Register at http://inspirationsgruppen.hhss.se/ as a special guest.
Eftersom vår talare insjukande igår fick vi ställa in Breakfast Club imorse. Därför talar Judith nästa vecka på onsdag istället.
Hoppas få se många av er då! Och att alla håller sig friska.
