The Social Capital Market, the market at the intersection of money and meaning, is gaining strength and momentum. Join me at SOCAP09 on September 1-3, 2009 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco to learn from the people and organizations who are making it happen. Click here to register.

The Global Knowledge Partnership has posted video clips of their Tiger's Lair SE biz plan pitching sessions and talk show: Social Entrepreneurs Spearheading a Better Future, held at their May 21, 2008 Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, held in Kuala Lumpur.

The four young social entrepreneurs who pitched plans to VC "Tigers", were selected through the GKP Youth Social Enterprise Initiative Programme, (www.ysei.org). The GKP will also hold a Social Entrepreneurship Forum: Empowering Youth, on August 13, 2008 in Quebec City in conjunction with the World Youth Congress.

To download the video clips, go to http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/newsmaster.cfm?&menuid=2&acti...

Will Morgan is facilitating the Social Enterprise Working Group for The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network. Will needs your help:

* Sign up for the first online conference "Defining Social Enterprise" (July 15-30) to discuss a SE positioning paper with a broad audience
* Recruit 5-10 of your personal contacts to join this online conference. Send them to The Social Enterprise Working Group online workspace, or forward this post.
* Contribute and discuss specific examples of Social Enterprise programs.
* Decide if SEEP should be a home for a SE program or platform.

Participate during the conference with as much time as you can offer. Both long thought-out comments and short, quick comments help advance discussion and provoke new ideas.

I recently spoke with Andrea Buffa, the new Communications Analyst at the University of California Berkeley Labor Center. The Labor Center has developed a new education and research program on green jobs in California and is assisting with the development of a green jobs workshop track at the June 11-13 Workforce and Economic Development Conference in Los Angeles.

Expected workshop topics include what and where are the jobs; green manufacturing possibilities; job quality and the green economy; and best practices in environmental/labor collaborations; among others. This track, developed in partnership with the Apollo Alliance, and the Ella Baker Center, will explore the extent of retooling and what it means for industry and labor, the opportunity for new employment in “green collar jobs”, and how to build new educational, economic, and social supports to make the transition successful.

The Building Workforce Partnerships conference takes place June 11-13, 2008 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles.

WED Green Jobs Workshops include (not a complete list):

What and where are the jobs?
-Michael Renner, Worldwatch Institute; or Jill Kubit – Cornell Labor Center
-Janet McGenty, Economic Strategy Panel
-Jennifer Oliver, Director, Greater Silicon Valley Center of Excellence)
-Jason Walsh, GreenforAll

Successful environmental/labor collaborations
-Jose T. Bravo, Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance
-Dave Campbell, Secretary Treasurer, SWA Local 675
-Ricardo Hidalgo, Organizer, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-tentative: Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

Training for entry and re-entry populations
Ian Kim, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Raquel Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University
Sal Vaca, Richmond Build

How our sector is responding to change
-Eric Emblem, Sheet Metal Workers
-Mike Massey, UA – United Associated of Plumbers and Pipefitters
-Von Ton Quinliven, PG&E

Green manufacturing possibilities
-George Sterzinger of the Renewable Energy Policy Project
-and others …

Funding for green job creation

Community College Green Job Training Programs
-Peter Crabtree
Dean of Instruction, Vocational Technology Division, Laney College, Oakland CA
-Roger Ebbage
Director, Northwest Energy Education Institute , Lane Community College, Eugene OR
-Greg Newhouse, Associate Dean/Special Projects Manager, Advanced Transportation Technologies
Mirmar College, San Diego CA
-Reid Strieby, Professor, Bronx Community College CUNY, Bronx NY, Principal Investigator of Environmental Entrepreneurship Program, Center for Sustainable Energy, Bronx Community College
-Moderator: Marcy Drummond, LA Trade and Technical College

How labor can get involved with climate change legislation
-Dave Foster, Blue-Green Allliance (tentative)
-Sharon Anderson, CA Air Resources Board
-Carol Zabin, UC Berkeley Labor Center
-Barbara Byrd, Oregon AFL-CIO

Ensuring Union Jobs in Green Construction
-Myung-Soo, LA Federation of Labor
-tentative: Madeleine Janis, LAANE

Emerald Cities
-Kate Gordon, Apollo Alliance
-Fred Lucero, Richmond BUILD/Solar Richmond
-Elsa Barboza, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), LA Apollo Alliance
-Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, New York University

Jade States
Robb Smith, Massachusetts office of economic development
Wendy Patton, Ohio governor's office
Patrick Neville, Washington State Apollo Alliance

Go to http://www.wed-works.org/info.html for more info.