Archive for May, 2008

The Road Home… A Service Project Worth Remembering

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Tuesday, May 27. Salt Lake City, Utah. Business casual and shiny cars drive cautiously to the shelter. The sign says, “Honk for Donations.” In succession the cars drive through the ominous gate.
I’ve grown up in Salt Lake. But this area of town is unfamiliar. The building and stretch of [...]

It’s All About The Triple Bottom Line

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I have spent the last three years of my life working in the growing segment of businesses known as triple-bottom-line companies or social ventures. According to the Skoll Foundation (http://www.skollfoundation.org –a foundation based on the principles that strategic investments can lead to lasting social change) a social entrepreneur is: society’s change agent, a pioneer [...]