2008 Revolution Blog

2008 Revolution Conference Summary

The Second Annual Revolution Through Social Enterprise conference was held in Malibu, CA, on September 12, 2008. This event brought together academics, nonprofit and corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and lawyers from around the world. The keynote speakers for this event were:

• Alex Counts, President and CEO, Grameen Foundation; Author of Small Loans, Big Dreams
• Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, GOOD Magazine; Co-founder of Ethos Water
• John Picard, Sustainability Expert, in conversation with Sam LaBudde, Biologist and Mariel Hemingway, Actress

Social Entrepreneurship in the Second Half of Life: Why should you care?, by Jim Emerman

Why would social entrepreneurs who started their social enterprise after the age of 50 be of interest to the mostly youthful attendees of REVOLUTION? That's the question the panelists in our roundtable  on "Encore Careers - How to Combine Continued Income with Personal Meaning and Social Impact" grappled with as we faced an audience mostly consisting of students and recent alums.

Student Reflection on Revolution Conference, by Bryan Zirkel

Originally posted on the Pepperdine Net Impact Blog.

The Revolution Through Social Enterprise Conference, presented by the law school’s Palmer Center and directed by Pepperdine’s own microfinance professor, Melanie Howard, took place last Friday at the Villa Graziadio Executive Center. The conference, which brought together experts in microfinance, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and environmental causes, was an inspiring and eye-opening experience for me.

The Genius of Kiva, by Roger Alford

Originally posted on Opinio Juris at http://opiniojuris.org/2008/09/15/the-genius-of-kiva/

I had the pleasure this past Friday to moderate the Revolution conference session that featured Matt Flannery, co-founder of Kiva, one of the leading microfinance organizations on the Internet. There is so much I could say about Kiva and Flannery’s remarks, but let me just highlight a few points that were raised by his discussion.