Jesuits Sparked Social Innovation for the Philippines 250.0
I read The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581-1768, (1961, Harvard) by Horacio de la Costa, S.J. over the weekend. After a year of looking for a copy in local bookstores – from John Nery’s effusive recommendation in a blog post and seeing a second-hand one for US$91.80, I finally found a copy I could afford [...]
Social Entrepreneurs are Unreasonable Revolutionists by Definition 227.0
Writing about what Filipino social entrepreneurs – like Reese Fernandez, Mark Ruiz and Jay Bernardo – actually do as innovators left me stumped and sidetracked. Thus, before posting about Mark and Jay, the inevitable a priori question must be asked: what makes a social entrepreneur tick? Stoking the Inner Fire. This question led me to [...]
Rags2Riches – Reese Fernandez Creates Value from Creativity 226.0
Not all entrepreneurs are innovators as categorized by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In putting together a new way for nascent entrepreneurs to work together and create value from creativity and to sustain the work over time, Reese Fernandez of RIIR is definitely in the practice of innovative entrepreneurship. I believe her pioneering effort – [...]
