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July 31, 2007
Phoenix Project Luncheon with Mark Warner a Success!
Last week the Phoenix Project was honored to cohost with former Virginia Governor Mark Warner a luncheon and panel discussion on Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship in Virginia. One-hundred and thirty leaders of Virginia’s public, private and nonprofit sectors and representatives of twenty-one Virginia institutions of higher education gathered in Falls Church for this groundbreaking dialogue. The positive feedback from this event has been extraordinary.
We invite you to join us in formulating the next steps in our shared mission to bring Virginia to the vanguard of the social entrepreneurship movement. Click here to see dozens of pictures from the event, read transcripts of speakers’ and panelists’ remarks, or tell us your ideas for next steps.
Excerpts from Gov. Warner’s comments:
“How do we marry the new energy and enthusiasm that is being brought to the sector by social entrepreneurs and their ìwhy isnít is done yesterdayî approach with the folks who have been in the trenches for 20 or 30 years leading existing nonprofit and governmental organizations?”
“…too often nonprofit funders are willing to fund the good idea, but not willing to take the next step and allow their nonprofit leaders to engage with the policy makers on how to take this good idea and build it into a public policy framework.”
These and other observations of the various speakers are innovation friendly, forward thinking. I applaud the Phoenix Project for bringing together these leaders to share their observations and for making these observations available to the community.