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More Questions and Answers

More Questions and Answers
  • Duration:  09:54
  • Filesize:  7.9MB
  • 07-09-2007
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Social Entrepreneurs from all over Scotland descended on Erskine to hear Jim Schorr talk about Juma Ventures. And the questions came flooding in from delegates. Here is part six of this session.

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Building Aberdeen Foyer

Building Aberdeen Foyer
  • Duration:  08:27
  • Filesize:  6.8MB
  • 10-09-2007
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Changes to the structure of local government, meant many organisations developing social enterprises models, including Kibble. Ken Milroy, Chief Executive of Aberdeen Foyer explains how they developed this arm of the organisation in part two of his talk, including some lessons learned along the way.

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Working with Big Business

Working with Big Business
  • Duration:  05:09
  • Filesize:  4.1MB
  • 23-07-2007
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Social missions and multi-nationals don't usually go hand in hand. But the story of Ethos Water is helping to change that. Jonathan Greenblatt explains how a deal with Starbucks can help the world's poor. He addressed the 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Long Beach.

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Say Goodbye to Dusty Journals

Say Goodbye to Dusty Journals
  • Duration:  08:37
  • Filesize:  6.9MB
  • 05-09-2007
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A child and youth care library at the click of a button. In the third part of his lecture, Thom Garfat, Co-Director of cyc-net.org talks about the wealth of material available online.

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Barriers To Achieving Outcomes

Barriers To Achieving Outcomes
  • Duration:  10:32
  • Filesize:  8.5MB
  • 19-02-2008
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Roger Bullock is a Professor at the Darlington Social Research Unit and he gave a presentation on 'effective practice and measuring outcomes' at the SAF Annual Conference-December 2007, Edinburgh. In the second part he discusses how services try and tackle different challenges to achieving outcomes.

Icing on the Cake

Icing on the Cake
  • Duration:  07:28
  • Filesize:  6MB
  • 10-09-2007
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Harnessing the private sector through franchising can provide a successful social enterprise. In part three of his talk, Ken Milroy, Chief Executive of Aberdeen Foyer explains how Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream sales are helping their social mission, and what future plans they have in place.

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Never Too Old To Learn

Never Too Old To Learn
  • Duration:  10:07
  • Filesize:  8.1MB
  • 25-07-2007
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Learning new skills like business management, marketing or accounting are important to anyone running a business. We chat to Lorna Edwards from the Social Enterprise Academy, based in Edinburgh, about the opportunities available for learning.

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Coping with Aggression

Coping with Aggression
  • Duration:  07:03
  • Filesize:  5.7MB
  • 25-01-2007
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Witnessing violence among teenagers can be a frightening experience but we spoke to someone, who decided to try and understand their behaviour as a result. Dr Sybille Artz is Director and Professor at the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It's the second part of her interview.

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Scottish FGC experience

Scottish FGC experience
  • Duration:  07:27
  • Filesize:  6MB
  • 26-09-2007
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We hear how Family Group Conferencing has worked in Scotland and the response from the agencies involved, in part four of the talk by Ann Hamilton from Children First Scotland.

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A Winning Team

A Winning Team
  • Duration:  08:40
  • Filesize:  6.9MB
  • 06-09-2007
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In part two of his lecture Jim Schorr, Chief Executive of Juma Ventures in San Francisco, explains the ethos, structure and key benefits of Juma.

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