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This is a space for your ideas. To collectively exchange, connect and collaborate for social good and to foster new thinking on groundbreaking social innovation. Change Connections is part of a wider initiative to support Nokia's potential to offer empowering solutions through new connections - between people, places, information and ideas - that improve the quality of lives, globally. We've undertaken a series of conversations and events to find out where the future of communication technology could help billions of people around the world better their lives - from organizing for collective power, to accessing health care, or learning even when getting to school is not a possibility. Along the way, it's become undeniable that this happens by building community. That's why we're connecting with you, here, now: to create a space for open ideation and change. On this site you'll find ideas from leading thinkers we've interviewed, background on some of the issues and opportunities at hand, links to our friends, and most importantly opportunities for you to connect to people, current work, new ideas and future possibilities in new and inspired ways. We've started a conversation and we're asking you to join and to help shape the potential future of communication technology for good. So jump in, and change connections.

"# Who invests in Global Partnerships funds and why: Beckett noted that GP funds are structured to appeal to a variety of social investors: * Philanthropic investors who like the 12-to-1 leverage that donating to a fund offers * Foundation investors who want to align their portfolios with their mission * Individual investors who like the fixed-income-like return and the business-like approach to alleviating poverty. "

"The community formed during the 2 weeks is sustained virtually through an MBA Course and innovation partners who provide legal, systems, management, and other development services. Social entrepreneurs represent a powerful force for addressing some of the most daunting challenges of our time. They work for a more just and equitable world for all. With this shared vision the GSBI™ is a journey of mutual discovery and transformation for everyone involved."

"NedSpace Co-Working in Portland, Oregon NedSpace offers co-working for startups, tech companies, designers, programmers, nonprofits, remote workers, telecommuters and social entrepreneurs. Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead"

"For nearly 40 years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, foundations, hospital corporations, asset management companies, colleges, and unions. "

"Social Venture Planning and Legal Guidance for a Better World"

"Thoughts on social entrepreneurship"

Rally the Cause is a blog on social entrepreneurship.

"London Creative Labs is a Social Business committed to ensuring decent work for everyone. It uses a unique and evolving combination of collaboration and business model innovation to generate new business opportunities that provide and/or enable work."

"LoCo works to support small local business to create a new economy based on relationships, self-reliance, and local economic development. We're not saying you should never buy another foreign made computer or car, but we do celebrate and support what is local to BC, those people and products/services that make us unique and a viable economy. Our bias for local is based on the principals of sustainability - that local businesses enhance our community, connect and support us socially, enhance wealth and employment by circulating dollars many times between businesses, and environmentally."

"Please add more resources to this list if you know of them, and if you have any suggestions on how to better organize/categorize this list, please add a comment to the Collaboration in the Social Change Sector discussion."

"The launch of the Social Entrepreneurs' Network (SeNet) on the 6th of September was a roaring success with more than 200 professionals attending the function. Amongst the guests were Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu, Minister of Works, Dato' S. Subramaniam, Dato' S. Veerasingam, and Dato' G. Palanivel. Also present, were a group of invited guests which includes Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam, Dato' Cyrus Dass, Prof. C.P. Ramachandran, Dato Dr. Thambirajah, Dato' Dr. Veeraramany, Mr. P.O. Thomas and Mr. Pardeep Kumar."

Bristlecone Advisors is an independent investment advisory firm and multi-family office providing objective, authentic, and comprehensive wealth management services to families and individuals. Founded in 1999, our business model has always been, and always will be, wholly driven by working for the client. As such, our advice, the solutions we provide, and the work we do for you is completely personalized and unbiased. Advisory in nature, we craft solutions with the ultimate goal of adding economic value for our clients. At the same time, we simplify the complexities that may accompany wealth by returning time and peace of mind to the client. The Bristlecone Advisors team is united in our unwavering commitment to our clients and their families. With client relationships at the heart of our organization, we place great emphasis on doing what's right for the client in every single case. You are our partner; we work with you and for you. The Change We Seek™ As conscientious business leaders, Bristlecone Advisors is committed to making positive social change through community involvement. Leveraging our collective networks, expertise and enthusiasm, we embrace our responsibility to strengthen the communities in which we live and work. Examples of community groups we have supported:

Moka Joe is a wholesale roaster of 100% Fair Trade, certified organic, bird friendly, shade grown, Kosher coffee. We work hard to entice the hundreds of natural compounds found in coffee beans into wonderful roasts and blends to suit every taste and preference. We are a small-batch, wholesale micro-roaster that deeply cares about the origins and growing methods used to create your cup of coffee, almost as much as you care about the flavor and aroma. We became a B Corp to challenge ourselves to step up to be as socially and environmentally responsible as we can as individuals and as a company. Arabica beans have the most flavor and aroma of all coffee beans. At higher elevations the beans grow and develop more slowly, leading to more complex and enhanced flavor characteristics. These are the beans we search out to purchase and roast into specialty premium gourmet coffees. As orders come in, our roastmaster selects the combination of beans and roasts them in small batches. This roasting process uses less direct heat so the roast is more gently controlled, ending with a consistent product with consistent taste - batch after batch.

About ShoreBank Pacific ShoreBank Pacific is the first commercial bank in the United States with a commitment to environmentally sustainable community development. We believe that long-term community prosperity goes hand-in-hand with a healthy environment. With that vision, ShoreBank Pacific, a Washington State chartered, FDIC insured bank, was formed in 1997 as a joint project of ShoreBank Corp., the nation's first community development bank, and Ecotrust™, an environmental non-profit. Through our lending programs, ShoreBank Pacific brings together conservation and community and economic development. We continue to create wealth in communities that wouldn't have access to banking otherwise. We've built a fantastic place to work that is founded on honesty and excellence. We became a B Corporation to support our mission and lend our credibility to a system that identifies and supports "good businesses." When you deposit your money at ShoreBank Pacific, you are helping to create sustainable companies, vibrant communities, and healthy environments by providing funds to our lending programs. Like other banks, we provide commercial loans; however, unlike other banks, we are conscientious to whom we lend, and potential customers are "scored" using a program of sustainability criteria, including conservation, community development, and economy measures. A healthy and sustainable business will translate into a healthy and sustainable community and economy. ShoreBank Pacific is wholly owned by ShoreBank Corporation, the nation's first community development and environmental banking corporation. The Change We Seek™ ShoreBank Pacific profitably assists businesses, and through them their communities, to be sustainable in economic, social, and environmental practices. * We lend money from our EcoDeposits™ program to businesses and non-profits that are committed to improving their sustainable footprint. While many of our loan customers are environmentally rel

Our mission is to help companies reach their highest potential in the context of the next paradigms in business. At shiftalliance™, we advise businesses on how to innovate their entire business model through the lens of meaningfulness, the key value driver of the 21st century. shiftalliance shows a business-any business-how to improve profitability with minimal capital investment from the companies we serve. We are experts in powerful, low-cost ways of discovering new ideas to increase the value your company generates, motivating a company's work force, inspiring its leaders and attracting new customers. Whether you're a leader seeking to revitalize the ROI of an existing business or a venture capitalist needing to optimize a business in your portfolio, shiftalliance™ can help you discover the innovation opportunities to enhance your business model and align your company with emerging shifts of the 21st century. Our singular approach comes from the combination of rigorous business analysis + design thinking + awareness mindset leadership coaching to unlock the full potential of your strategy, leaders and performance. We coach your people to lead and embed meaningfulness into your culture. We became a B Corp immediately upon discovering B Corporation. We had collected 231+ better practices in business and realized that B Lab was promoting many of these practices through their certification and legislation initiatives. We were thrilled to discover that companies could be recognized for their meaningful practices and potentially even benefit financially (through tax breaks) as a result of their commitment to socially responsibility. Most management and specialist consulting firms address business, organization development, innovation, brand or sustainability. We use the lens of meaning, the value driver of the 21c, to assess, innovate and embed all of the above into meaningful business models and unleash greater value for all stakeholders and the enter

"Pura Vida Coffee sells 100% organic, fair trade and shade grown coffee and a full line of sustainable beverages to individual and institutional customers throughout the US. We believe that companies can be both 'tough-minded and tender-hearted', integrating the discipline and rigor of a for-profit with the heart and soul of a mission-driven non-profit organization. We believe that there is a 'new sector' forming and want to be in on the ground floor! The mission of Pura Vida is to Create Good™ by using business to empower producers, motivate consumers, inspire business leaders, and, ultimately, serve the poor. By utilizing every facet of our company-capital structure, governance, employee recruitment, product sourcing, marketing and sales-to achieve social outcomes, we can demonstrate that the worlds of business and charity can not only co-exist, but can thrive on one another. Pura Vida Children The Change We Seek™ The mission of Pura Vida is to bring compassion and capitalism together in order to "Create Good™" for children living in coffee communities around the world. * Pura Vida seeks to provide all of its coffee farmers enjoy a fair wage and can support a family. To accomplish that goal, we only buy and sell 100% Fair Trade coffee, which ensures that our workers are treated fairly and that their land is preserved naturally. * We also make sure that we are active in the communities where our coffee is grown. Pura Vida operates programs for at-risk children through the sale of products and the financial support of customers and partners. We work in partnership with local non-profit agencies to provide educational opportunity and nurture physical health, confidence, character, and strength of spirit. * All of our coffee is organic and shade-grown, which means that every bean we harvest is as pure as it can possibly be. Growing our coffee in the shade preserves the nutrients and minerals found in coffee beans, and our organic status affirms

"ogether, those two things are really propelling Seattle forward, and we thought we should try to focus the event in that way, on this notion of social entrepreneurship and technology. Because it's also what we're interested in, intellectually, in our program. That was our premise for the event, and through that, we started finding speakers, all of them regionally based, that fit that mission. It was actually pretty easy."

"MissionMarkets.com is a centralized, private, password protected and FINRA regulated investment exchange. The system affords organizations and companies (issuers) that generate positive social and environmental impact a unique marketplace for raising capital. Issuers that meet minimum listing criteria may upload and display their capital requests and debt offerings for accredited impact investors via our online transaction platform. This offers an issuer a broad and diverse audience of potential investors to view their offerings and simultaneously provides accredited impact investors with a centralized marketplace with increased investment opportunities from which to choose. Investors may use our secondary market to sell or exit existing investments by negotiating the terms of a resale with other investors. MissionMarkets.com provides users with a highly efficient, transparent, regulated and secure infrastructure that will scale the impact investing markets."

"If you're getting inspired, its time for some serious internet surfing. Check out these resource links and start exploring."