cheryl dorsey

Hey Echoing Green fans! We’ve got an Internet Radio double-feature for you today.

First, you can tune in to Planet Good Radio’s interview with Echoing Green President, Cheryl Dorsey.  Cheryl and host Tea Silvestre discuss the best strategies for business models and start-up capital for modern social enterprises.  You can download the episode to iTunes or subscribe to the podcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PlanetGood (or listen directly with the embedded player below).

The Family Van, Harvard Medical School's local health clinic co-founded by Echoing Green’s President Cheryl Dorsey, has offered free counseling and tests for seventeen years to residents in Boston's low-income neighborhoods. According to the journal, BMC Medicine, a team of researchers at Harvard University studying the Family Van have found that preventive care offers an astounding economic return on investment.

Tune in tonight (or set your DVR) to see PBS's NOVA documentary, Doctor's Diaries.  The series follows the lives of seven Harvard Medical students over the past twenty years... including the story of Echoing Green's President, Cheryl Dorsey.  

Be sure to check out ThinkChange India, a blog focused on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in India. One of their features is a regular column entitled TC-I Changemakers, which highlights “organizations and people doing some remarkable work to change the world and change India.” Their latest interviewee?  Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey.

Echoing Green is set to take over Capitol Hill tomorrow, as President Cheryl Dorsey and 1994 Fellow Van Jones are slated to testify before the House Education and Labor Committee.

This is just a quick reminder to RSVP for Cheryl Dorsey's talk next month at New York University.  She's speaking March 3, 2009 at 12pm as a part of the Reynold's speaker series on "Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century."

The event will take place in Shorin, Room 802 at the NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South.  All are welcome (including those outside the NYU community), but space is limited and an RSVP is required: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228CAUV8XLS

 

Last week, our newsletter asked the question, "What is President Obama’s Social Innovation Agenda and what does it mean for nonprofits and the social sector?"

Last week, President-elect Obama launched a new website, USAService.org, to inspire and organize people to plan service projects for Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 19th).  The site features an interactive event search to find service ideas in your neighborhood.

For those of you in New York City, be sure to break out your brand new 2009 calendars and take a look at New York University's Reynold’s Speakers Series.  NYU has put together a great lineup of social entrepreneurs including our very own Cheryl Dorsey (speaking March 3rd at 12pm).  Find more information about the speaker’s series here, or RSVP directly.

Our own Cheryl Dorsey was recently written up in O Magazine for being a mentor to the eighty big-dreaming women of the Women Rule! Conference. Women Rule!