[getsmart-l] Social Entrepreneurs: Seven Stories - Schwab social entrepreneur award

[John O'Gorman]

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: About the Schwab Foundation award
December 4, 2007 Globe and Mail
For the first time, the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award is being given in Canada. 

In all, 83 applications for the award were made through the foundation's website (http://www.schwabfound.org).

The list was narrowed to 15 contenders using criteria defined by the foundation. Six finalists were then selected by the foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, an organizer of today's Social Entrepreneurship Summit in Toronto (for which The Globe and Mail is a media sponsor). 

The winner, chosen by a six-member jury of Canadian leaders in the sector, will be announced tonight at the conference and will become part of the Schwab Foundation's global network of outstanding social entrepreneurs.


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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: GEOFFREY CAPE: FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EVERGREEN

'I wanted to make cities more liveable
GREG MCMILLAN Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

Geoff Cape was born and raised in Toronto, where generations of his family worked in the construction industry.

But it was the time spent on a rural family property north of Belleville, Ont., that opened his eyes and eventually led to 

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: TZEPORAH BERMAN: CO-FOUNDER OF FORESTETHICS

If a tree falls in the forest, she knows
CATHRYN ATKINSON Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

ForestEthics sprang from the Clayoquot Sound anti-logging protests on Vancouver Island in the 1990s, which she took part in. With staff in Canada, the United States and Chile, the organization aims to protect endangered forests by determining which are endangered and approaching companies that buy the products made from logged trees in those forests. ForestEthics asks the companies to stop purchasing those products; if the firms refuse, they are met with protests on websites and in advertisements.

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: MICHEL LABBÉ: CO-FOUNDER OF OPTIONS FOR HOMES

Affordable roofs over low-income heads
LAURA RAMSAY Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

An urban planner by training, the 55-year-old is co-founder of Options for Homes, which "delivers home ownership in a non-profit model" to low-income families and individuals. So far the company, founded in 1992, has developed and built six condominium communities in the Toronto area as well as in Waterloo and Collingwood, Ont.

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: CARING ENTERPRISES

The double bottom line: It's the new world of social entrepreneurship, where organizations work to both benefit society and run viable businesses
RICHARD BLACKWELL December 4, 2007 Globe and Mail

One is Social Capital Partners (SCP), a Toronto foundation run by former telecommunications executive Bill Young. It invests in for-profit companies that hire people on social assistance, particularly at-risk youth. SCP now has a wide-ranging portfolio, including a property management firm in Vancouver, a renovation business in Winnipeg, and a bicycle courier service in Toronto. Over all they employ several hundred people. 

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: GILLES JULIEN: SOCIAL PEDIATRICIAN

Doctor takes his practice to the people
EVA SALINAS Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

"One day the neighbour would say 'my child has fever' and that I need to examine [him]. But the issue is not the fever. The issue is how this child is living, why he's getting fever every week," the doctor says. "I discovered a new way of doing pediatrics - being at home with people, becoming friends with them, sharing the misery in which they lived."

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: TIM JONES: PRESIDENT AND CEO OF ARTSCAPE

Building artist-friendly neighbourhoods
GREG MCMILLAN Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

More plainly put, Artscape seeks to work on projects in Canada and abroad that aim to unlock the creative potential of people and places.

"I see Artscape becoming an increasingly global organization," he says of the not-for-profit enterprise, formed in 1986, that works with developers to create affordable living and working spaces for artists so cultural districts can grow and thrive.

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Report on Social Entrepreneurs: IAN GILL: PRESIDENT OF ECOTRUST CANADA

Supporting local sustainable ventures
CATHRYN ATKINSON Special to The Globe and Mail December 4, 2007

"It was either jobs or the environment," he recalls about attitudes about serving environmental causes. "I didn't really hear anyone say 'jobs AND the environment.' Only Ecotrust did that."

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Evergreen founder wins Schwab social entrepreneur award
December 5, 2007 Globe and Mail

Geoff Cape, founding executive director of the environmental organization Evergreen, is a pioneer in bringing a bit of nature to the urban landscape.
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