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to the April 2011 edition of our micro-magazine.

UNCOVERING WOMEN SOCIAL INNOVATORS

1- Women Social Innovators- Can you name one, two, three?
2- Stand Up and Be Counted: Get the campaign T-shirt
3- Featured Social Innovator: Lily Lapenna from MyBnk
4- Global Tribal Blog Meeting the One and Redefining Employment 3d phase
5- Awards, Equity and Grants Nectar, Chamber of Commerce, Women's Foundation and more
6- Be savvy! Resources & Advice for businesses and activists
7- Events: Ashoka Changemakerds - SocapEurope- Live Ogunte
8- About us

Women Social Innovators

Can you name a few?

If you are working on a venture or a project and have an impact on people and planet AND if you are a girl, there's one web page you ABSOLUTELY need to be featured on:

Unique -OGUNTE Scoop it: Women Social Innovators

Recent add-ons:

Adital Ela, Israeli Sustainabilty Designer, capturing urban wind for street lighting. (More about her work here)
Jane Burston from Carbon Retirement: forcing European industrials to pollute less.
Tessa Tenant from MyIce.
Shirin Ebadi on Human Rights, Education and Islam
Susan George on Speaking Freely...

Soon:...

YOU AND YOUR VENTURE?

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STAND UP and BE COUNTED

Be part of the movement that connects and develops Women Social Innovators

and all aspiring women leaders who have solutions to pressing social and environmental issues.
A better world. powered by women, the organic Tshirt, comes in two sizes, swish white and grey letters on a black background.

Cost: £15 all in, free shipping to the UK.
Proceeds go towards learning and networking events for Women Social Innovators.
To get more info and to order your t-shirt, click here.

FROM THE GLOBAL TRIBAL NETWORK

This Month's Featured Social Innovator:

Lily Lapenna from MyBnk

MyBnk builds young people's knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their money effectively, and to make enterprising choices throughout their lives. Lily was made a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum along with only one other UK woman and this week, she has being inducted into the Ashoka Fellowship.

"Lily, give us your Top 3 Tips for women who want to make change locally and globally."

1) Learn by walking: don't wait till you know how to do things to get started, start and learn as you walk. Learn something new everyday and do something with it the next day.

2) Fail, forward, fast: don't be afraid of failing it is the best way to learn but it is important to move forward and to do it fast. Don't dwell on failure.

3) Listen listen listen: to what your team and to what your users are not saying to you! The more your team grows and the further removed you become from your participants/users, the more carefully you need to listen. Listen internally more than externally, people on the outside will always want to influence you, however it is your people on the inside who often have the ideas and the solutions.

and number 4 is a must: have fun with it...!

Read Lily's full interview here.

GLOBAL TRIBAL BLOG

Feel free to share your comments!

Meeting the One: Let's make it happen!

The Secret of a Good #Socent

Redefining Employment Phase 3 (Check phases 1 and 2 to pick up the project and have a go yourself!)

AWARDS, EQUITY, GRANTS

Women's Foundation

The Women’s Foundation increases self worth and promotes confidence in Women and Girls in the U.K. by supporting charitable groups that address gender specific issues arising from abuse, disease or social exclusion due to isolation, neglect, loneliness or lack of education.
Contact Emily Simon for eligibility criteria: on +44 2074492267
Click here for the Women's Foundation Website
Check Women's Foundation page on Facebook.

Nectar Small Business awards

Open to all UK small enterprises and UK social enterprises.
These awards have 5 categories, among which the “Contribution to the Community Award” -a small business or social enterprise whose product or service is sold or supplied with the aim of making a positive contribution to the community it serves.

For further details and to enter follow this link here.
Deadline for entry: 30th April 2011.

The 2011 Chamber Awards: Put your #socent forward!

Celebrating the success and achievements of businesses around the UK, the entry is exclusive to UK-accredited Chamber of Commerce members.
The overall winner will receive £50,000, and previous winners have experienced year-round exposure from the awards programme, including appearances on television.
Check all categories and further information here.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 24 June 2011.

Crowdcube

The world's first equity-based crowdfunding community dedicated to business investment.

A University of Exeter business has created a website to help small companies seek investment from the public. Crowdcube, which is based at the university's innovation centre, makes it possible for people to buy shares in start-ups and growing businesses. (PS: It's not limited to Exeter!)
Check their website here.

Contracts Finder

The Government has launched a new website aimed at helping third sector find public sector contracting opportunities. This website - Contracts Finder, will list all such opportunities worth more than £10,000.
For more info, click here

BE SAVVY! Resources and Advice for Social Ventures and Activists

TrustLaw

TrustLaw is a global centre for free legal assistance and anti-corruption news, run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world's leading provider of news and information, Thomson Reuters.

In common with all of the Foundation's programmes, TrustLaw aims to empower people in need by providing trusted information and leveraging professional expertise. They offer services to improve access to the rule of law and foster greater transparency.
More info on this newly launched service here.

Fenton: Proving Your Worth

10 Ways to measure the impact of your communications by Fenton. In this practical guide, the Fenton team outline 10 key questions to help evaluate whether your communications are
effective. Did you:
1) Advance your advocacy goals?
2) Change behavior?
3) Raise money?
4) Grow your membership?
5) Build the skills of your staff?
6) Build new relationships with influentials?
7) Reframe your issue?
8) Introduce a new word into the lexicon?
9) Strengthen your organization’s position, brand and power?
10) And, are you quantifying and qualifying your results effectively?
Click here to get the details in a pdf guide.

Mentoring for London Social Entrepreneurs- By BITC and KPMG

We’re all aware that the personality of the entrepreneur differs from that of corporate professionals, but the fact remains that both sides have many skills that will benefit one another. This is why BITC (Business in the Community), in association with KPMG, set up a mentoring programme for social entrepreneurs to be matched with senior business leaders. Currently matching 60 mentors to social entrepreneurs a year, BITC receive great feedback from both sides: For the mentors, it takes them out of their comfort zone and forces them to communicate their expertise to a new audience. For the social entrepreneurs, they gain a different perspective and help putting their ‘house in order’, making sure all the systems and processes are in place ready to grow.

For more information, please visit BITC
or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call on 07715 612164.

Money Advice Service

MyBnk is launching a free face-to-face Money Advice service in April 2011 which offers independent, sales and jargon-free guidance on all matters relating to personal finance.
Anyone over the age of 16 will be able to access help from their trained staff, although the service is particularly targeted at those who are most vulnerable to the consequences of poor financial decision making.
For more information about the sessions and how your beneficiaries can access the service please please call Johnny at MyBnk on 07891217702 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The Fresh Outlook - Women section

The Fresh Outlook is the conductor for great news about and from people who work for people and planet. The mother company, Freshties, is a not-for-profit organisation that is about people-helping-people. Through their activites, your discover priceless ways to spread knowledge, opportunities and happiness.
For further info click here.

AND BECAUSE LIFE IS TOO SHORT...

and you still have to do a PowerPoint presentation or a Campaign video or a corporate training... have a look at Don McMillan, the Corporate Comedian, and its hilarious take on “Life After Death by PowerPoint” and “Live from My Cubicle”.
Strongly recommended before you deliver this consultation or seminar...
See Don's website here and his YoutubeChannel. Prescription: one a day!

EVENTS

Ogunte Live in the Lounge -at B.Hive, a working space for female entrepreneurs.

Servane from Ogunte will be sharing with B.Hive Members the "4M - 3C's - What you need to think about, and double-check, before you look for business partners, mentors, funding or investment!"
Date: Thursday 7th April 2011 - 12.00pm 13:00.
Location: B.Hive London | Covent Garden
For B.Hive Members only. More info on B.Hive and how to become a member here.

Ashoka Changemakers' week -16 to 23d June Paris, France.

The first and largest global gathering organized for and by Changemakers!
For the last 30 years, Ashoka has built a network of more than 3,000 social entrepreneurs all around the world. This concept, unrecognized until a short time ago, is now about to be acknowledged on the international scene.
Henceforth, to be able to face the acceleration of social and environmental problems, the sector now has to change scale, to imagine new bridges and alliances, and to empower individuals to become changemakers.
Want to learn more? To read about Changemakers’City and to get your invitation, click here.

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.

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.

You can find out more about the Ogunte team by visiting our website.

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