[ Cross-Sector Partnerships in Social Entrepreneurism - The Presentation ] [ Post-Presentation Discussion ]

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Cross-Sector Partnerships: New Perspectives in Social Entrepreneurism was presented at the Wired.org on-line conference by Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky as representatives of Sohodojo and the North American Rural Futures Institute (NARFI).

Traditional approaches to public-private partnership often have an unspoken assumption of Big Is Good underlying them. Funders too often tell us things aren't worth doing unless they are done in a big way, with large-scale impact. This puts rural communities and distressed urban neighborhoods at a disadvantage where constituencies are often small, and geographically or socially isolated.

In this session, we'll explore emerging organizational and operational strategies for social entrepreneurism that creatively combine non-profit and for-profit organizations in an extended enterprise to support solo and family-based entrepreneurship. We'll focus on how Open Content and Open Source licensing can be used to outsource R&D and technology support for microenterprise networks.

Please see the following documents for additional resources:

• Cross-Sector Partnerships - The Flash Audio-enhanced Streaming Version
• Cross-Sector Partnerships - The PDF-based slides with scripted notes
• Sohodojo's Favorite Social Entrepreneurism Links - Supplementary Material
• Sohodojo's Small Is Good Parallel Universe Links - Supplementary Material

Section sublinks:  [ Janet Salmons on Sector Roles, the Greater Good, and the Small Is Good World ] [ Amy Krause Wonders About Nanocorps and Influence Without Authority ] [ Mari Pearman Asks About Small Is Good Support Policies ] [ Naomi Rue Supports Small is Good Consumerism and Partnering ] [ Cole Keirsey Speculates About Software Technologies to Support Small Is Good Business ] [ Christopher Johnson Seeks Reading Recommendations ]

	NARFI Highlights
	This was our third on-line conference hosted by iCohere, and our first as a presenter. The iCohere platform doesn't get in the way of learning and social networking. And since the conference site stays on-line for months after the real-time event is history, it has an added value that can't be matched by traditional, physical space conferences.

The post-presentation discussion was primed with a few provocative questions to stimulate the conversation:

• Do non-profits feed off the scraps of capitalism?
• What