Praxis Social Entrepreneurship

by Dave Blanchard

Every person has the chance to create and cultivate good culture in the place God has called them. For those with an entrepreneurial bent, the opportunity can be enormous. Unfortunately, many great ideas die because the entrepreneur lacks the proper wisdom, experience, strategy or community necessary to see that idea take off. Dave Blanchard and Stephen Graves share profound insights on why some great ideas make it and others don’t.

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steve scott

A place for the artists and artistic thinking? I don't just mean Tim Brown/IDEO although basing your solution design on empathic listening to your hosting community is certainly important. I mean the kind of mindset talked about by writers such as Hilary Austen and Roger Martin. If how we change the world is based on how we see the world and how we imagine alt: `what if' then those gifted or tasked with being our eyes/heart are certainly important, no? (compare a newspaper story on the pattern bombing of a Basque village by Franco's planes in the 1930s with Picasso's `Guernica' and you'll see its not JUST about distribution of information)

I `get' Bill Drayton/ASHOKA..Paul Light's search for the social entrepeneur and so on, but I also get the `Relational Aesthetic' of nicolas Bourriaud. (plus much lese to do with art...and not just the post gallery participatory public models)

Please talk to me about the provision you are making or hope to make concerning the arts......//Steve

Natalie

I so hope I can be a part of this one day

Maureen Laniak

Hello,

I just missed the deadline for the Praxis submission for my idea for ministry/business last year. What is the deadline this year? I don't want to miss it!

Many thanks for this great institution and support,

Maureen

Imago Dei Inc.

derek guthrie

I have just found your site. It talks to me. I hope it will be possible to engage in correspondence. I was the co founder of an art journal with my late wife Jane Addams Allen.the grand nice and ardent beliver in the principals of Jane Addams of Hull House.

the history of the New Art Examiner is unusal and turblent.

Last year in very unusal circumstances Northern Illinois University Press published an anthology The Essential New Art Examiner. (see Google search) the art world is decimated by a culture that is shaped, and riven and part of consumerisism. Artists are not educated to think around these complex problems.

The New art Examiner as Jane Addamms did we placed the idea of discusion and freedom of speech above all and we payed the price for political incorectness.

I am now retired and live in the UK. their is a small group in Chicago who wish for the rebirth of the publication as it is now a beacon of light in memory. a place were all could

particapte and attempt to reconcile the problems of reality and aesthetics in the Visual Arts. easier said than done. thank you for you attention I look forward to hearing from you. As I undertand you phillosphy I agree engagement is Essential A point that Jane Addams made and cultivated many years ago. .

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