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‘Do Business, Do Good’ Event Outlines Three Different Social Entrepreneur Success Stories

05 November 2010

‘Do Business, Do Good’ an event hosted by South Dublin County Council and the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship as part of the Innovation Dublin programme, will take place on Wednesday, 17th of November @ 4 pm in the Seminar room, County Library, Tallaght.

“Who are Social entrepreneurs?  Individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious, persistent, tackle major social issues and offer new ideas for wide-scale change. Rather than leaving societal needs to government or business, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps”.Ashoka

Gordon McConnell, Deputy-CEO of the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, will introduce the event and three social entrepreneurs from very different types of social venture will give a short talk on their organisations development and their own personal journey.
The three-featured speakers are:

• Killian Stokes - Founder and CEO of mygoodpoints.org one of the 2009 winners of the Vodafone Ireland Foundation World of Difference programme.
• John Murphy - CEO of Speedpak and one of the winners of the first Arthur Guinness Fund Social Entrepreneurs Award.
• Michael Kelly - Founder and CEO of GIY (Grow it Yourself) who is also a winner of this year Arthur Guinness award as well as a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland awardee and Ashoka Fellow.

This will be followed by a Q&A session with the panelists, chaired by Gordon McConnell.

South Dublin County Council’s Mayor, Cllr Eamonn Maloney welcomes Social entrepreneurs to Tallaght “ I am delighted to welcome Gordon McConnell, from the Ryan Academy, DCU and the three social entrepreneurs here to tell their unique and innovative social enterprise stories. This is a time for new thinking and new ways. We need to foster this ability within our communities and look to addressing issues differently. This event will start the process of empowerment and social change for all of us”

“There has been an increasing interest in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in Ireland in recent years’, said Gordon McConnell, Deputy-CEO of the Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship. “People are now actively seeking to develop solutions to social issues themselves rather than waiting for government to solve it for them.”

To register: http://www.southdublininnovates.ie/node/450