If you are a budding social entrepreneur who is ready to walk the talk or you are already in the midst of doing so, then the Rotary Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (RYSEC) might just be for you.

Through the competition, RYSEC hopes to encourage the social entrepreneurs in youths by providing assistance in securing funding, and more importantly, in gaining support from a network of experienced business people in Singapore.

Submission Deadline: 23 August 2010

For more information, do visit the RYSEC website at http://rysec.sg/

For the next installment of Green Drinks Singapore, guest speaker Steve McCoy from Green Drinks Kuala Lumpur will examine the environmental movement in the world today and share about how we could contribute. He is the founder and principal of Counterpoint, a consultancy firm which provides sustainability-related support services for corporate, government and non-profit sectors. He was also the CEO of the Force of Nature Aid Foundation which works on recovery of communities affected by natural disasters.

Date: 29 July 2010 (Thursday)

Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm

Venue: Artery, Red Dot Traffic Building, #01-04, 28 Maxwell Road

For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121829344528406&ref=nf

Learn more about the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) at ‘LOHAS: The Next Consumer Swarm?’ through speakers Adam Horler, president of Asia-Pacific LOHAS, and Tay Lai Hock, founder of Ground-Up Initiative. LOHAS represents a growing market segment of consumers who are particularly interested in issues of sustainable living, health and wellness, as well as ecology and the environment.

For this particular Social Conversation, organised by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation, there will also be a macrobiotic and vegetarian fare prepared by chef Alexandra Hsieh as well as a goodie bag from the Kranji Countryside Association for the early birds.

Date: 15 Jul 2010 (Thursday)

Time: 5.00-6.30pm

Venue: Glassroom Cafe, Level 2, School of Information Systems, 80 Stamford Road, SMU.

For more information, visit http://www.lcsi.smu.edu.sg/emailer/100715social_conversation.htm or email Jared Tham at jaredtham@smu.edu.sg . To register, go to http://www.lcsi.smu.edu.sg/prog_reg.asp.

Social entrepreneurs seek to create and sustain social value through a process of continuous innovation, adaptation and learning. Service-learning is a pedagogy that integrates community action with structured reflection in support of service to others, community development and empowerment, and reciprocal learning.  Can service-learning promote effective social entrepreneurship?

In this talk by Dr. Timonthy Stanton, he will examine the history and theoretical foundations of service-learning to consider its possibilities for strengthening the work of social entrepreneurs.

Dr. Stanton is the director of the Stanford University Bing Overseas program in Cape Town and Visiting Senior Fellow at the John Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities in the school of Education in Stanford.

Speaker: Dr Timothy Stanton, Director, Stanford University Bing Overseas Program in Cape Town, S Africa.

Date: June 21 2010 (Monday)

Time: 2pm-4.30pm

Venue: BIZ 1 #2-1, Mochtar Riady Building, NUS Business School

Caroline Casey was born legally blind but she lives beyond her disability—achieving all her dreams—to drive a race car, ride an elephant across India and start her own business. She is founder of social enterprise Kanchi which promotes inclusiveness by partnering businesses, governments, medias and the general public. She is also the first Irish person to become an Ashoka Fellow and Young Global Leader of The World Economic Forum in 2006.

Hear from Caroline yourself in Hong Kong this June. She will be sharing her life experiences as well as her work at the Kanchi Foundation. She will also be open to hearing new opportunities for people with disabilities in China and areas with potential for collaboration.

A Conversation with Caroline Casey

Date: 15 June (Tuesday)
Time: 12.30pm-2pm
Location: HKUST Business School Central, Room 1501-02, 15/F Hong Kong Club Building, 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong
Organised by: HK University of Science and Technology
To register or for more information, Interested participants may contact Ivy Ngan at ivyngan@ust.hk

Mini MaD x Caroline Casey Ability Workshop

Date: 16 June (Wednesday)
Time: 2pm-4.30pm
Location: HKICC Auditorium, 135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Organised by: HKICC (HK Institute of Contemporary Culture)
To register or for more information, Interested participants should visit http://www.M-a-D.asia