Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a social entrepreneurship funder which has dispensed over $27M to projects such as City Year and Teach for America, says the people who make things happen share certain common traits.
Each year Echoing Green vets about 1000 ideas to come up with 15 projects they want to fund. The trick, Dorsey says, is ferreting out which of those submissions is not just a scalable idea, but has a person behind it with the right stuff to make it happen.
"There's truly magic to doing this work," she said. "You've got to find the right person, with the right idea, who can execute, and who's at the right moment in time for idea to take flight."
To separate the worthy from the wannabes, Echoing Green canvassed the characteristics of more than 500 Echoing Green fellows. They distilled them and put them together into something they call the social...
Each year Echoing Green vets about 1000 ideas to come up with 15 projects they want to fund. The trick, Dorsey says, is ferreting out which of those submissions is not just a scalable idea, but has a person behind it with the right stuff to make it happen.
"There's truly magic to doing this work," she said. "You've got to find the right person, with the right idea, who can execute, and who's at the right moment in time for idea to take flight."
To separate the worthy from the wannabes, Echoing Green canvassed the characteristics of more than 500 Echoing Green fellows. They distilled them and put them together into something they call the social...
- 4/16/2009
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
"The most important thing I learned in grad school is that there are no new ideas, just great executions. At Cool Hunting this is one of our underlying editorial principles. Being in the business of helping creative people get stuff done, Behance is incredibly well aligned with our perspective," says Josh Rubin, editor of Cool Hunting.
His Web site, Cool Hunting, partners with the Behance Network this week, April 16 to April 17 at the Times Center in New York, to present The 99% Conference. The conference will focus on how idea generation and organization come together to make ideas happen.
Speakers include Michael Bierut, Partner, Pentagram; Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Seth Godin, CEO, Squidoo; Ji Lee, Creative Director, Google Creative Lab; and Jake Nickell, Chief Strategy Officer, skinnyCorp / Threadless, among other visionaries who are in the business of making ideas happen.
As a media sponsor for the event, Fast Company would...
His Web site, Cool Hunting, partners with the Behance Network this week, April 16 to April 17 at the Times Center in New York, to present The 99% Conference. The conference will focus on how idea generation and organization come together to make ideas happen.
Speakers include Michael Bierut, Partner, Pentagram; Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Seth Godin, CEO, Squidoo; Ji Lee, Creative Director, Google Creative Lab; and Jake Nickell, Chief Strategy Officer, skinnyCorp / Threadless, among other visionaries who are in the business of making ideas happen.
As a media sponsor for the event, Fast Company would...
- 4/13/2009
- by Fast Company Calendar
- Fast Company
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