Social Entrepreneurs: How the Law can be Friend or Foe to Your Mission
Jan 11th, 2010 by martin
February 1, 2010 6:00 – 8:00 PM
MercyCorps NW
43 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, OR 97204
This 2-hour seminar begins with an introduction to social entrepreneurship, followed by a general overview of some basic legal issues that social entrepreneurs need to consider in order to protect both the business and the enterprise mission. It will also touch on the choice between non-profit, for-profit and hybrid legal entity models.
Space is limited. Please contact Tichelle Sorensen for additional details and registration.
Presenters:
Cindy Cooper, Co-Founder, Speak Shop. The poverty Cindy witnessed growing up in Brazil fueled her drive to make the world a better place. Cindy is Co-founder of Speak Shop http://www.speakshop.com, an award-winning certified B Corporation that offers live online Spanish lessons with teachers in Guatemala. Cindy also teaches social entrepreneurship and oversees the Social Innovation Incubator at Portland State University’s School of Business Administration http://sba.pdx.edu/cgls/. Previously, Cindy developed and managed programs for non-profits such as the Social Entrepreneurship Incubator and Net Impact and worked in international marketing and marketing research at Nike and The Capital Group Companies Inc. She has consulted on strategic planning, marketing, social entrepreneurship and sustainability to clients such as Nike, Meyer Memorial Trust, Verité and Ashoka’s Changemakers. She holds a Master of International Management with distinguished honors from Thunderbird and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish.