Social Enterprise Summit 2013

How do we create enterprises, work, and ultimately an economic system that builds a healthy economy: one that cultivates local entrepreneurship, attracts businesses to locate and remain, provides enough wealth, and nurtures a resilience that allows it to withstand extremes caused by manipulation and excess?

The Creating Good Work - Building Healthy Economies session is a collaborative interaction workshop that brings together social enterprise and local economic development leaders. This session will be an excellent chance for SEA chapters, as representatives of their local social enterprise communities, and EDCs to engage in meaningful discourse. It will foster continued collaboration between EDCs and SEA Chapters to make tangible contributions to their community’s economic health.

It is designed to explore solutions as to how we can bring meaning and purpose into the workplace (establish work that serves others), build an economy that has a positive impact on all sectors within a community, and allows all those who participate to generate enough wealth. This is not something we dream into existence. We build it.

With Ron Schultz, who conceived and edited the recently released book, Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy, and Claudia Viek, CEO of California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO).