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Want to Change the World? Start a Social Enterprise

Online Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Series brings together leading social entrepreneurs and business experts
If you're looking to change the world, Ryan Eliason recommends discovering your gifts and finding ways to use them for the greater good. Read More

Achieving 'Our Master Narrative' through Upcoming Cincinnati Summit

GBBN's Greg Otis speaks to potential of city's best-in-class working together
Asked to imagine the best that could happen if some of Cincinnati's top performers worked together, particularly in light of an upcoming city-wide Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit, Greg Otis says "achieving our master narrative would be the ultimate accomplishment." Read More

Social Finance Needs 'Pathological Collaboration'

Root Capital CEO William Foote says infrastructure, industry alliances will bring social finance to scale
It might go against all common sense to share business information with a competitor but it's exactly this type of industry collaboration needed for social finance to reach scale and unlock billions of dollars for social and environmental benefit, says William Foote. Read More

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Bring Something New Into Being

Ryan Eliason recommends discovering your gifts and then finding a way to use them to make a difference. One of his favourite pathways for doing just that is social business. Ryan is a big fan of social business simply because social business is sustainable. You can do whatever you want, as long as it's sustainable. These are great tenets in the architecture of creative work.

Discover your strengths. This truly is the first step in the path to self-discovery and being satisfyingly productive, being a creator.  If you know what your strengths are and look for ways to put them into action you will be naturally drawn to activities that make soul-sense. There are hints about what it is you would like to see in the world to be found in putting your strengths to work on things you care about. If there is one thing that doesn't currently exist that you wish did, what would it be? The answer to that question could very well reveal the one thing a person was put on this earth to bring into being.

Bring something new into being. When this is the starting point, an organization does not begin with doing market research to figure out what people want. It begins instead with, what do we want to bring into the world?  While chasing the market might be one way to make a living, it isn't as direct a way possible to live a making. Read More

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A Vast Organization Bound by Stories of Innovative Success

OACS News a venue to share stories of strength and exchange ideas

The Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools (OACS) is a hub that connects a vast range of independent schools across a geographic area from Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, to Sarnia and Windsor at the tip of the southwest.

Eastward, the alliance stretches beyond Ontario's border to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and the OACS is the thread that binds all 79 schools and the 14,000 children they serve.

The alliance is purposed to build a "flourishing community of schools responding to God's call to integrate faith and learning," according to the organization's vision statement.

For the past four years Axiom News has engaged with the OACS seeking stories of innovative success and strength-based evolution within each school's individual mandate.

Bob Moore is the principal at Guelph Community Christian School, an OACS member, and he says the OACS News has been an invaluable tool for sharing ideas and connecting the vast range of schools in the alliance.

"It seems to be a great place to exchange ideas and inspire innovation and we really need that," says Moore of the news service. Read More 

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