SE Summit 08: Making a living while making a difference

SES08 – Making a living while making a difference – at any age from SiG @ MaRS on Vimeo.

10:35 Dorothy Engelman, Executive Producer of GetInvolved.ca showcasing a short video documentary.

Getinvolved.ca is a companion piece to our TVO television series. On TVO, Get Involved is 25 documentary shorts celebrating people from 7-70 who are making a difference in their schools, in their community and through their work. They are stories of inspiration. GetInvolved.ca was created to transform that inspiration into action. Our mission at Get Involved.ca is to create a lively socially conscious networking community for individuals, not-for-profits, charities and community organizations to connect to one another and make a difference.

10: 50   Introduction – Dr. John Evans, Chair, MaRS/ Lisa Torjman, Associate, SiG@MaRS Social Entrepreneurship can be a life long vocation.  This panel will present on “Making a living while making a difference – at any age!” Speakers:

• David Galenson, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, author: “Old Masters, Young Geniuses”
• Dev Aujla, Founder, DreamNow, author: “Occupation:  Change the World”
• Julia Moulden, Founder, The Company of New Radicals, author: “The New Radicals”

Dev Aujla – DreamNow

Mission DreamNow is a charitable organization that produces ideas that do good for the world. As a producer, we bring together people, raise money and plan for the growth of ideas that we believe will do good for the world. We are a charity but some of the ideas we help grow are social enterprises while others are more traditional such as research programs.

They are looking into the question of “how do you make money AND change the world?” Findings will be out soon. This is a topic that I have been giving a lot of thought in the past year and a half as well, looking forward to reading their report.

Julia Moulden – The Company of New Radicals

3 different types of “new radicals”

Activists: Left career that you started out on, and went to work for an organization that is doing good. E.g. Rocco Rossi, now CEO of Heart & Stroke Foundation

Entrepreneurs: People who create organizations whose core mission is ‘doing good’. E.g. Geoff Cape, and Wendy Kopp who created Teach for America

Innovators: People who stay inside their field and organization and drive change within. E.g. Chef Jamie Kennedy, advocate for regional and seasonal cuisine

David Galenson – Author, “Old Masters, Young Geniuses”

By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime.

Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past.

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