Innovation embodies many of our Empowerment Core Values. On-going innovation is dependent upon a high level of collaboration, accountability, outcomes focus, empathy, and throws in one key element. Risk. When we innovate we fail. Or as Thomas Edison famously put it “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.
It is very […]
So far in my job as FOCOPI (Spanish acronym for Community Prevention and Investment Fund) Program Director at Soluciones Comunitarias (SolCom) one thing I have learned is the importance of finding a local representative to promote SolCom’s products and services in the community. I have also found that the best local representatives tend to be […]
One of the very first things I learned about MicroConsignment before heading down to Guatemala as a Field Leader for Social Entrepreneur Corp’s summer program (http://socialentrepreneurcorps.com/jobs/) was that one of the reasons the president and co-founder of SEC, Greg Van Kirk, invented the MicroConsignment model, and founded our local partner, Soluciones Comunitarias as a business, […]
