Welcome!

to the March 2011 Woman's World edition of our micro-magazine.

1- Women's Social Leadership Awards- 11 days to nominate!
2- Featured Social Innovator: Becky Jones from womadeyourpants?
3- Global Tribal Blog Redefining Employment - Open Source
4- Events: SocapEurope- International Women's Day- etc.
5- Be lazy! Tools for campaigns, business and innovation
6- About Ogunte

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FROM THE GLOBAL TRIBAL NETWORK

This Month's Featured Social Innovator:

Becky John from whomadeyourpants?

whomadeyourpants? is about two things. It's about pants, gorgeous, not guilty, ethical pants. And it's about women. Amazing women who want work but who don't get many chances.
The team at whomadeyourpants? think that every day should be a good pants day, and that there should be a little bit of something lovely under everyone's clothes, just for them.
Read Becky's moving interview here.

GLOBAL TRIBAL BLOG

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Taste the energy of the open source mindset

Redefining Employment Phase 1

Redefining Employment Phase 2

EVENTS

Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 - Celebrating Women Filmmakers

Opening on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Festival showcases an electric and eclectic programme of inspiring, enchanting and challenging work by women across the world. Highlights include Susanne Bier’s Oscar-nominated In a Better World, incendiary and illuminating documentaries Women of Hamas and Countdown to Zero, and a new musical commission by Imogen Heap performed live to silent classic The Seashell and the Clergyman.
Dates: 8 - 17 March 2011
Location: BFI Southbank, ICA & Southbank Centre
All the details on Birds Eye View Website.

It's Fairtrade Fortnight. 28th Feb - 13th March 2011

Get involved!
For Fairtrade Fortnight 2011, The FairTrade Foundation are asking the nation to show off about buying Fairtrade which offers 7.5 million people in the developing world a more secure future.
More info here

WOW - Women of the World Festival

Launching this year, WOW – Women of the World – is a joyous celebration of the formidable strength and inventiveness of women – a pioneering, groundbreaking annual festival, which will present, recognise and celebrate women, and act as a conversation space for issues of all kinds.
Servane, founder of Ogunte, will be interviewed by Lynne Frank, the PR and Lifestyle Guru, about Women in Ethical Business. Join them and other great entrepreneurs on March 11th, and "together we'll explore in depth some of the most potent topics for women today." (Jude Kelly, Women of the World Festival Director)

Further information here

Business Link London: We Mean Business

Join the Ogunte team at the BL networking afternoon on Wednesday 16th March 2011 at the Camden Centre in Kings Cross. This FREE event is designed to inspire and provide support to female entrepreneurs to help build self-confidence; which will ultimately help grow a successful enterprise. The event includes talks from Dawn Gibbins MBE, and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year award, a range of workshops, a business support exhibition and a coaching zone
To book, click here or call 0845 6000 787.

Global Summit of Women 2011

Also coined the "Davos for Women", The Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding women’s economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in different parts of the world.
Through an annual forum, research, diversity roundtables and other programs, the Summit seeks to inform and promote women's economic
advancement globally.
Registration and further info here
Dates: May 5-7, 2011
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

SOCAP EUROPE Social Capital Markets Conference

For the first time, SOCAP/Europe invites you and 600 other key European stakeholders of the Social Capital movement to join in an interactive, participatory event. Convening in spring 2011 at the historic Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, SOCAP/Europe brings the world’s leading social impact innovators together in a lively conversation to explore models, form partnerships, and fund innovative solutions, to the world’s great challenges.

Dates: May 30, 31, June 1st, 2011
Location: Beurs v. Berlage, Amsterdam, NL
Further info here.

Breaking Through: Courageous Strategies for Extraordinary Leadership

Attend the MBA Women's Conference, (Forté Foundation)
Dates: Jun 10-11 2011
Location: New York City, US.

BE LAZY! TOOLS for campaigns, business and innovation

We love: From Apps to Zen

Discover Sinead McManus' fabulous tools to make your life as easy as it will ever be. An 8Fold Ebook. For free.
Download here

The Role of Intermediaries and Investors

Find out more about the latest policy paper from Nesta and the Young Foundation on Growing Social Ventures, and how intermediaries (like Ogunte) and investors can help you with this.

Human Rights Search Engine

HURIDOCS is an international NGO helping human rights organisations use information technologies and documentation methods to maximise the impact of their advocacy work.
Hurisearch is their search engine.

Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing tools

Find more about intermediary platforms, predictions tools, co-creation engines, examples of product ideas crowdsourcing, P2P, peer production, software and free-lancers platforms....
Frankly, if you still haven't cracked your innovation issue after using this list, maybe it's time to close the shop!
Get that list now here.

OGUNTE?

A better World. Powered by Women.

Ogunte is a Social Innovations Development company focused on women-led social ventures. We understand the social issues and we believe that women have practical answers to these pressing issues.

Ogunte Ltd has a track record of adding value to the pre due-diligence, investment and commissioning processes by clarifying and assessing social enterprises' proposals, help them articulate their social impact, and develop strong market places.

Learn more about our programmes and services here.

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