by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 7, 2016
Let me share a note from my friend Shel Horowitz, who co-authored two Guerrilla Marketing books with the legendary Jay Conrad Levinson. Shel is quite an interesting guy. Last time I googled for him, I got more than 100,000 hits. I’ve always thought of him as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 5, 2016
This is an excerpt from my article originally posted on the Standford Social Innovation Review on 03/30/16 We live with an illusion so powerful that we endlessly mistake it for reality. Merriam-Webster defines “free market” as “an economic market or system in which...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 30, 2016
The secret is out! Companies that give away money are actually more profitable! In fact conscious, values-driven, sustainable companies outperform the market 9 to 1! The tide has turned. Being values-driven and environmentally friendly is no longer a costly add-on to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 6, 2013
Guest post by Taliesin Nyala, a co-owner of the Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA), a worker-owned cooperative based in Massachusetts created to democratize education and the economy while furthering the cooperative movement. TESA designs curriculum and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 11, 2012
Just released today, Learning to Change the World by Charles Kane, Walter Bender, Jody Cornish and Neal Donahue delves into the implications of one of the largest social entrepreneurial initiatives, One Laptop Per Child. From Amazon’s description: Learning to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 23, 2012
After a two year absence, I was invited to return to Seventh Generation to celebrate my induction into the Social Venture Network Hall of Fame. I was honored when Seventh Generation CEO John Replogle gave an exceptional speech to commemorate the occasion and I thought...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 8, 2012
Cheryl L. Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, notes in her forward to Ron Schultz’s latest book Creating Good Work that it arrives at a critical time in the relatively short history of the social entrepreneurial movement. As Jeff Trexler points out in his...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 14, 2012
The following is a speech I gave at the launch of a new solar project that will produce clean, renewable energy at two local schools, and will provide an estimated $300,000 in direct economic benefit to the city of Burlington. This project, located at Burlington High...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 12, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Santiago Halty, Founder of SENDA ATHLETICS, Berkeley, CA How it all got started Soccer is king in Argentina, where I grew up. As a kid, there wasn’t a time when I didn’t want to play. But soccer, for me, was more than a game. It was a way to...