[Opportunity] Director of Social Enterprise - Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network

Founded in 1989 the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) does a lot of things very right as a social enterprise. The VSEF is very pleased to pass along the announcement of an opportunity to assume responsibility as PLAN's "Director of Social Enterprise".

PLAN’s mission is to help families secure the future for their relative with a disability and to provide you with peace of mind. This means ending isolation and loneliness, creating financial security, enabling everyone to make a contribution, ensuring choice, and creating genuine homes.

Here's a video to help you understand PLAN a little better:

About the role:
Founded in 1989, PLAN is an award-winning social enterprise that assists families in securing a good life for our relatives with disabilities. We are looking for a passionate, self-directed and entrepreneurial individual with a track record in business or social enterprise, combined with some experience in the financial sector. Demonstrated writing skills and e-business savvy are critical.

Job Goal:
Generation of revenue through business activities, development of corporate partnerships and grant-writing

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing, developing and implementing business activities that include product and service development, which support our mission and generate revenue


• Maintaining and developing corporate partnerships


• Developing new markets


• Grant-writing and fund development

Qualifications:

• Relevant University Education


• Business experience, preferably in the financial sector


• A successful track-record in business/social enterprise start-up

The successful candidate will be self-directed, energetic, committed and entrepreneurial. He/she will possess:

• Knowledge/experience in business planning, corporate structuring, and equity financing


• E-Business savvy


• Demonstrated writing skills

To learn more please contact Alexis Pidlisecky or visit the PLAN website.

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Interested in learning more about social enterprise? Take a browse through the Vancouver Social Enterprise Book Store (Vancouver United Kingdom United States) and see what other social entrepreneurs recommend reading.

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Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein

David Bornstein is the author of of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Guy Kawasaki posts ten questions he asked David.

Here's one of Guy's questions:

Question: How can social entrepreneurs attract talent when there aren’t high salaries and options?

Answer: By offering people employment opportunities that align with their talents, interests, and values. By inspiring them with a vision of changing the world, of being part of something bigger than themselves. We have to think about an assumption behind this question—namely the notion that people seek to maximize how much money they make. Certainly, we all care about making money. But choices that people make every day—becoming teachers, having children, giving money to charity—indicate that we are complex creatures motivated by many different things.

We are also at an interesting point in America’s history. With all our wealth and freedom of choice, we seem to be obsessed with finding happiness. Everyday it seems another book is published focusing on how we can make ourselves happy. Most Americans today are phenomenally wealthy compared to their grandparents, yet many studies show we are no happier, and we actually may be less so. At the very top of the list of things that make people feel happy and fulfilled are doing work that you find challenging and deeply meaningful with colleagues whom you respect and care for. Social entrepreneurship offers this.

Great questions, better answers.


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Doonesbury marks a philanthropic generation gap. Way ... cool!

While BC Business extols the new face of philanthropy in British Columbia, Doonesbury notes a benchmark.

The image links to Sunday's strip, then you can read the exchange between the characters.

[A nod to Lucy for beating us to the post.]
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Interested in learning more about social enterprise? Take a browse through the Vancouver Social Enterprise Book Store (Vancouver | United Kingdom | United States) and see what other social entrepreneurs recommend reading.

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