http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/spinning/ Connect. Educate. Innovate. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-46066 michele klein Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:11:08 +0000 http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/?p=3808#comment-46066 The Wing of Love experience in Israel, which provides a rehabilitation service for young offenders, following a tender to privatize welfare services in Israel, fully supports Daniel Sieradski's claim that social innovation is only for those with means. You need private means to cover the non-profit organization's overdraft when the Welfare Ministry is late in its payments for the innovative service that it receives and to cover the legal bills, when the local authority clamps your personal bank account illegally in a bid to throw out the non-profit organization you set up to run the program for young offenders. there is no jackpot in this enterprise. There is only the need to give and give and give, from your heart, from your pocket, from your day, from your life. But each time you can give a boy a hope for the future you know you must continue. The personal price for the social innovator is enormous. The Wing of Love experience in Israel, which provides a rehabilitation service for young offenders, following a tender to privatize welfare services in Israel, fully supports Daniel Sieradski’s claim that social innovation is only for those with means. You need private means to cover the non-profit organization’s overdraft when the Welfare Ministry is late in its payments for the innovative service that it receives and to cover the legal bills, when the local authority clamps your personal bank account illegally in a bid to throw out the non-profit organization you set up to run the program for young offenders. there is no jackpot in this enterprise. There is only the need to give and give and give, from your heart, from your pocket, from your day, from your life. But each time you can give a boy a hope for the future you know you must continue. The personal price for the social innovator is enormous.

]]> http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-46031 rejewvenator Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:55:56 +0000 http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/?p=3808#comment-46031 Entrepreneurs do put in sweat equity, but they also hold, well, actual equity in their companies. If their businesses prove successful, they cash in. That upside attracts many very talented individuals in a way that social entrepreneurship does not. If we fail to find reasonable models for compensating social entrepreneurs, we'll lose them. It's all well and good to say that people should be driven by their passions, but it's foolish to build our hopes for communal innovation on the willingness of our most talented to endure a decade of poverty in pursuit of their ideas. Entrepreneurs do put in sweat equity, but they also hold, well, actual equity in their companies. If their businesses prove successful, they cash in. That upside attracts many very talented individuals in a way that social entrepreneurship does not. If we fail to find reasonable models for compensating social entrepreneurs, we’ll lose them. It’s all well and good to say that people should be driven by their passions, but it’s foolish to build our hopes for communal innovation on the willingness of our most talented to endure a decade of poverty in pursuit of their ideas.

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