The Executive Leadership Center

Around the world, the citizen sector is growing dramatically. As these social ventures grow - whether working to improve basic education for inner city kids, or to fight disease in the developing world - they face daunting organizational challenges. A new breed of social entrepreneur has stepped up to overcome these challenges. Dedicated to improving the social status quo, these change agents bring a fresh set of skills that combine business acumen, innovative field work and operational excellence to build large scale sustainable organizations.

No place better nurtures this new breed of social entrepreneur than Boston, which is home to nearly a fifth of the Fast Company Social Capitalist awardees as well as dozens of pioneering social enterprise investors.

The Forum for Social Entrepreneurs (ForSE) brings these social innovators together with leading business professionals, investors/donors, government officials, academics and students to facilitate the sharing of new technology and business ideas and hard-earned management learnings, and foster informed discussion and action on new social venture concepts.

ForSE 2008: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs This is an opportunity to attend the leading event that brings together like minded professionals from technology, business and social sectors with a focus on social entrepreneurship. Over 300 attendees from the Greater Boston area and beyond are expected to converge in October for an activity filled day of workshops, information sharing, and networking.

ForSE 2007: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs ForSE 2007 was the premier networking event for Boston's social sector in 2007. In addition to featuring interactive discussions with leading social innovators from around the world, the Forum provided incredible opportunities for relationship building. It was also a critical venue for emerging entrepreneurs to meet collaborators, access professional services and recruit.