Monday, January 18, 2010

Muhammad Yunus is coming to North Texas!

A generous offer has been made to Dallas Social Venture Parnters and friends to attend the upcoming Austin College, Posey Leadership Award honoring the 2010 Recipient: Muhammad Yunus. Spend an evening with this remarkable humanitarian and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner who will speak on his vision of a poverty-free world. Dr. Yunus pioneered microcredit, which has helped over 100 million families across every continent.

We hope to see you there!
Thursday, February 25th, 7:30 p.m.

All individual tickets are purchased through the Eisemann Center , so please enter "friends" - all lower case to receive a special 10% discount across all pricing levels

Networking with the SVP Partnership

Guest Post by DSVP Partner, Barbara Errickson

Staying in touch with your world has never been easier with Tweets on Twitter, professional connections on LinkedIn, and family and friends on Facebook. I even reconnected after over 20 years of silence with my high school graduating class from the 1960’s in time to help plan A 50th reunion ! To think I would have missed out without Facebook !

When I joined DSVP about 9 months ago I diligently entered my profile details on our DSVP intranet portal expecting to continue adding to my collaborative network. So far, it’s ratherlonely there.

We have an excellent engagement manager who orchestrates our Investee project teams and yet it’s a challenge to know each other better. Wouldn’t it be great to look up team mate biosbefore, during and after projects, and, on occasion, even to find a Partner to join you for a social event ? Can you imagine LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook with only names and no profiles or messages ? We could Do Good Even Better with more complete cross partner collaboration !

And, as an incentive, for the next two weeks, if you complete or update your profile on the SVPI Partner Portal, you will be entered to win a Sony Digital Ebook Reader that holds 150 ebooks. Deadline is February 4th and we will draw at the February First Friday. So get connected to our partner network!