Presentation given at the Social Innovation @ Ivey Forum, March 24th, 2010

1. we’re screwed.
now what are you gonna do about it?
Social Innovation @ Ivey Forum
March 24, 2010

2. First, a bit about...

3. me

4. unschooler

5. runner

6. entrepreneur

7. ‘career path’
‘founding’
1991 2010
‘working’

8. Life is messy and
unpredictable.

9. I don’t know
what I’m doing.

10. Everything I do...

11. teaches me about what
i’m good at...

12. connects me with
people I can do more
stuff with...

13. challenges me to look
deeper and ask...

14. What’s the point?

15. 13,700,000,000 years ago

16. 4,450,000,000 years ago

17. 130,000 years ago

18. 7,300 years ago - Agriculture

19. 150 years ago - Industrial Revolution

20. We are powerful.

21. 1945 - Hiroshima

22. We are dangerous.

23. 1983 - Exxon Valdez Spill

24. 1994 - Rwanda

25. 2000 - Aral Sea dies

26. We thought we
were in control.

27. 2001 - 911

28. 2006 - Climate Change

29. 2008 - Global markets collapse

30. We were wrong.

31. “A flaw in the model...
...that defines how the world works.”

32. WE

33. ...are making our planet
inhospitable.

34. We are killing
each other.

35. We are killing
ourselves.

36. We’re screwed.

37. But, there’s hope.

38. If we
created this mess...

39. ... then we
can create
something better.

41. social entrepreneurship
=
creating a better world

48. it happens...
at many levels

49. social benefit
social impact
systems change

50. it happens...
through many forms

51. government
Social
Social
Non-profit Purpose For-profit
Enterprise
Business
social movements

52. it happens...
using many tools

53. technology
Social
Innovation
policy finance

54. but it all starts...
with people

55. Prof. Muhammad Yunus

56. Tzeporah Berman

57. Tom Szaky

58. it all starts with...

59. you

60. what are you
going to do?
Michael Lewkowitz, Igniter
michael@igniter.com
http://igniter.com
twitter etc. “Igniter”