Exploring Social Innovation with Mentors, Social Entrepreneurs, and Legal Experts

This is a post to say thanks and mention some of the supporters, mentors, and practitioners that have inspired our posts. And we have worked with the superstar social entrepreneurs at Back to the Roots to provide readers with a discount for their truly innovative gourmet mushroom kits….find out more here!

When you start a new project in an area unknown and unexplored, you may find that mentors seem to arise from unlikely places. Deep gratitude for great insight, ideas, and food for thought:

• Green VC – read post here
• B Lab Policy – read post here

At the heart of this effort is providing useful information, tools, and news about social innovation. So many of the true inspirations have been those individuals and organizations actually in the field. Here are a few we have had the pleasure of connecting with:

• The Compromise Trap – read post here
• The Story of Stuff Project – read post here
• Social Media for Nonprofits – read post here
• Sustainable Silicon Valley – read post here
• Imagine H20 – read post here
• Social Change Film Festival and Institute – read post here
• Yellow Leaf Hammocks – read post here
• CivicSponsor – read post here
• GroAction
• Namaste Solar – read post here
• DayOne Response Waterbags – read post here
• Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) – read post here
• The Hub – read post here
• Social Innovation Journal (SoJo)
• Stanford Social Innovation Review – read post here
• MIT CoLab Radio
• SocialEarth – read post here
• BioBag Compostable Waste Bags – read post here
• Absolute Impact Partners – read post here
• Green on the Go by NetIP – read post here
• One World Youth Project – read post here
• Founder Institute – read post here
• Green Festivals – read post here
• Sustainable Enterprise Conference – read post here
• Lotus Foods – read the post here
• Back to the Roots – read post here

    
Social entrepreneur legal community

It has been immeasurably helpful to tap legal practitioners well-versed in the field to better understand how policy affects the legal landscape for social entrepreneurs and how law can evolve to support and encourage social innovation. A special thank you to the attorneys and policymakers who have provided great insight and been able to answer the big and small questions about social entrepreneurship law.

   
Readers

You inspire the best work. Attending events, seminars, conferences, hearings, one-to-one meet-ups, and talks has been made more meaningful knowing that there will be others interested in reading about key takeaways and insights. Through the last few months it has been encouraging to see new levels of interaction, such as the sharing and additions to the 50+ social innovation fellowships post. Thank you.Cheers to the social innovation exploration so far, and all that is to come!