Collective impact is described in an article by Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, & Mark Kramer as an approach with more discipline, being higher performing and having five conditions necessary for success. Those five key conditions that distinguish collective impact from other types of collaboration are: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and the presence of a backbone organization. The article describes how to begin and sustain lasting social progress.

Polio eradication is within our grasp. But if we don’t eradicate the disease now, the risk of crippling and deadly polio outbreaks will continue to threaten the world’s children. You can help Progress and Rotary International get the job done by contributing to Rotary’s PolioPlus program or creating awareness of polio.

Challenges to Polio Eradication

Health experts agree that these primary challenges must be overcome in order to reach the goal of polio eradication:

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Opportunity Loss: Unnoticed and Uncounted Sources of Value

This free, 1 hour webinar is hosted by the Stanford Center for Professional Development. In association with the Strategic Decision and Risk Management - Stanford Certificate Program

Speakers

The Government We Deserve
GENE STEUERLE December 14, 2011

Teddy Roosevelt Redux?
On Tuesday, December 5, President Obama went to Oswatomie, Kansas, where Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 had made one of his most famous speeches. Democrats, the current president would have us think, are following in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt in pushing for higher taxes on the rich and temporary Social Security tax breaks for the middle class.

In a time when the majority of us hardly carry cash anymore and our debit/credit card have become our medium for retail transactions the new legislature under the Dodd-Frank law has caused a chain reaction of volitile feelings through the consumer, merchant and financial institution. Considering Progress' loyalty to working with credit unions, it's important to note that credit unions are facing this dilemma too - with the debit card interchange fee reducing dramatically, how credit unions will cover that large revenue loss may come at a cost to their member benefits.

The Washington Post reported on a session in which would-be entrepreneurs spoke about their plans in hopes of getting venture capitalists to back their ideas.

The hopeful entrepreneurs got a tip from Jonathon Perrelli, founder of Fortify, VC, a venture capital firm in Virginia. It is good to fail, he told them; failure can be a badge of honor.

One hopeful, William Weil, told Perreli during the session that his failure to be accepted at Harvard Business School inspired him to work in the entertainment business in Los Angeles. He was later accepted at Harvard and did graduate.

Progress Through Business, Cooley LLP, DLA Piper, and other D.C. partners will present the second annual D.C. Entrepreneur Week November 14th -18th 2011, at various venues throughout downtown Washington, D.C. Founded with the entrepreneur in mind, DCEW co-founders, Charles Paret and Peter Stuart, have built a golden opportunity for up and coming leaders around the D.C. area to thrive through a series of panel discussions, roundtables, forums and educational opportunities.

This four week, four-credit, summer course counts toward the International Business students’ degrees at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
- If you are interested in value creation as opposed to value appropriation
- If you want to examine how innovative social ventures are tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems
- If you want to study why social entrepreneurship matters
- If you want to investigate how market-oriented activities can produce transformational goals that improve the lives of people
Then see www.cals.wisc.edu/ip/ProgramTypes/UK.html

DESIGNED BY ENTREPRENEURS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

DCEW is not your typical entrepreneur conference. We focus specifically on three key elements:

1. Allowing Entrepreneurs to pitch Investors
2. Providing actionable information to entrepreneurs
3. Networking with fellow entrepreneurs

This list of hundreds of millions in funding for Chicago digital technology illustrates the value being created in the Midwest.

Builtinchicago Funding History

Enterprises to bring pure water to rural Indian families and to provide an on-line marketplace that will let Indian college students find donors to support their education have won the Annual Oxford Saïd Global Entrepreneur Network Business Development Competition held in September.

The developers of the business plans for the for-profit Aquregia and the non-profit LetsGraduate (www.letsgraduate.org ) tied for the £2,000 prize and will split the money.

Progress' VITA program in Madison is well under way with volunteer recruitment. With over 70 students showing interest in learning more about tax law we are counting on having a surplus of volunteers (as long as itemizing doesn't scare them off!) and providing quality training.

www.builtinchicago.org informs us of another great event for digital entrepreneurs as follows:
Please join TiE Midwest on Tuesday, October 18th for the third Leaders & Legends event of 2011, an exclusive educational series for entrepreneurs, sponsored by Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. This series provides an opportunity for our invited guests to interact with, and learn from, Chicago’s most legendary and experienced business owners in a more intimate and off the record environment.

After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

In a few weeks Progress Through Business plans to offer the City of Madison the SelectAbilities platform. SelectAbilities.com was developed to create a network where local economies could grow by enabling neighbors to hire other neighbors, local entrepreneurs , or local businesses; thereby keeping the money local and reinvesting back into their community. However, SelectAbilities has not yet been able to offer this network to communities due to the lack of traffic, and profiles created.

Progress Partners, The Milwaukee Urban Entrepreneur Partnership (UEP) and the Metropolitan Business Collaborative (MBC), are about to activate a Special Project Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to plan, design and initiate the Milwaukee Urban Entrepreneurship Center.

Background on the MBC:

The final of the 6th Annual Oxford International Youth Business Development (YBD) Competition was held on Tuesday, 6th September 2011 at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. Created by the Oxford MBA Class of 2006, YBD is a global competition that calls for young entrepreneurs, aged 16-25, to develop business ideas that address real economic, social, and environmental challenges.

It may be months away, but the start of a new school year always initiates the wheels to start turning and planning to proceed. Taxes are on my mind, especially volunteer recruitment. Our success is determined by volunteer numbers, quality and quantity of available trainings and supervisory support.

Did you know that you may be eligible for a tax credit during tax season if you make eligible contributions to an employer-sponsored retirement plan or to an individual retirement arrangement?
The credit for Qualified Retirement Savings Contribution, or Saver’s Credit, helps to reduce tax liability if:
a.) You meet the income limits:
-Single, Married Filing Separately, or Qualifying Widow (er), with income up to $27,750

-Head of Household with income up to $41,625

-Married Filing Jointly with incomes up to $55,500