Category Archives: Other Events in Boston
An Evening with Ashoka founder Bill Drayton MAY 12th
Bill Drayton, Ashoka CEO
Bill Drayton, the “godfather of social entrepreneurship” will join us for a conversation with Net Impact founder Mark Albion and Ashoka Fellows Eric Dawson and Jake Shapiro.
Ashoka is a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide by providing change-making leaders around the world with social venture capture to solve the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, over 2,500 Ashoka Fellows have worked in over 70 countries. Read more about Bill at http://www.ashoka.org/team/drayton
Hosted by Net Impact Boston and Simmons Net Impact.
Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Simmons College School of Management, 300 The Fenway.
Getting there: By T, take the Green D line to Fenway or the Green E line to MFA; parking is available in the Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, Boston. Some street parking may be available on Evans Way (off the Fenway past Palace Rd.
RSVP: jesse@netimpactboston.org
2011 Speed Networking Event: April 19th
Net Impact Boston will host the premier networking event for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability professionals. Come and be a part of it!
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: $10 Members, $20 Non-members
Space is filled on a first come first serve basis.
Please email yasie@netimpactboston.org to RSVP.
As you know, our talented and diverse members are active leaders in the CSR community ‐creating new businesses, making connections, inspiring change, and working together to make a difference. This exciting event is designed to support these initiatives and will be held in a round‐robin “speed networking” style. Participants will rotate in small groups through a cadre of special guests from the corporate and non‐profit sectors. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet many of your fellow Net Impact members and CSR leaders from Boston and beyond.
VIP guests include:
Mark Albion, Founder, Net Impact
John Hawthorn, Founder and CEO, MassChallenge
John Katovich, Founder, Katovich Law Group
Lori Van Dam, President, PlanetTran
Allen White, Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute
NIB Speed Networking is one of our most popular events. Attendees rapidly move from table to table in order to maximize the number of contacts they will meet. Conversations are engaging and dynamic. This event is surely to be a hit - join us as we strive to connect and to grow Boston’s CSR community!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Feb 17: Regional Event of Interest
Defining Sustainability: The Environmental Value of Historic Building Conservation
Date: Thursday, February 17
Time: 12:15-1pm
Location: Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston, MA
Cost: $6; Free for OSMH Members
Jean Caroon, a principal architect at Goody Clancy and the author of Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings, will discuss sustainability and “green building”. Jean will also explore the environmental value of reusing buildings and the increasing technologies that make it possible to improve the performance of all buildings, regardless of age or style.
For additional information please visit the Old South Meeting House website.
If you know of local happenings that would be of interest to our membership, email melissa@netimpactboston.org to request their inclusion in the monthly NIB newsletter.
NEC-NAEM Breakfast Event Industrializing Life Cycle Assessment’s (LCAs)
From the Net Impact Boston Community: EvAs companies seek to design new products with defined environmental characteristics, they are looking for tools for balancing environmental characteristics in the same manner as they currently balance parameters such as performance and cost.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one such tool, but today’s LCAs are too complex and costly to integrate easily into the product design process. APC by Schneider Electric has embarked on a program to “industrialize” LCAs — create a life cycle tool within the product design process that can quickly and cost effectively support product designers while they are designing new products.
Join us as we learn about APC by Schneider Electric’s journey from Ray Lizotte, Director of the Environmental Stewardship Office. Presentation will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with LCA and product design experts, including SolidWorks and Pure Strategies.
When
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010
Registration/Breakfast: 7:45 – 8:30 a.m
Session: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Where
APC by Schneider Electric
North Billerica Design Center, 85 Rangeway Rd., Bld. # 2
North Billerica, MA 01862
Phone: (978) 670-2440
When
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010
Registration/Breakfast: 7:45 – 8:30 a.m
Session: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
How Much
For members, the rate is $15. For non-members the rate is $25. Register here.
Questions: Please contact Chapter President Johanna Jobin at johanna_jobin@millipore.com or Ray Lizotte at raymond.lizotte@APC.com
Event: Challenges and Opportunities of Socially Responsible Business
Bunker Hill Community College is hosting four local entrepreneurs who have started socially responsible businesses at an event this Thursday, November 18.
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Socially Responsible Business
Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010, 1-2:15pm
Where: Health and Wellness Building Lobby, Bunker Hill Community College
Panelists include:
* Michael Murphy, Co-Founder, Mass Design Group
* Larry O’Toole, Founder and CEO, Gentle Giant Moving Company
* Jodi Rosenbaum, Founder and CEO, More Than Words Bookstore
* HeatherJean MacNeil, Founder and CEO of Proxy Apparel and BHCC Adjunct Instructor, Marketing
More Events Coming Your Way
For a complete list of Net Impact Boston events and regional events of interest, please visit our community site.
Cleantech Kingpins Speaker Series
Topic: “Save the World or Beat China: How to Sell Cleantech Investment to the US?”
Under almost any metric, the US is falling behind in cleantech investment compared with European and Asian countries.
We’re gathering a diverse group of Boston experts to answer three questions:
1. What are you currently working on?
2. From their perspective, why is this trend happening?
3. From their perspective, what are (at least) 3 things we must do to reverse this trend?
Kingpins is a forum to highlight Boston’s best cleantech innovators to share their stories, successes, challenges, and future insights with industry professionals, industry professionals and the community at large.
When: Thursday, September 30 at 6pm
Location: NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston
Website/RSVP: http://kingpins0930.eventbrite.com/
Beyond Cause Marketing Summit
The Beyond Cause Marketing summit is bringing together a diverse group of leaders to create a new framework for how companies, charities, and government can better engage and encourage the public to solve social issues. Let’s face it – cause marketing isn’t getting the job done. For all the money and attention raised, not enough is being done to address the major challenges facing society today. It’s time to shift our thinking and approach. Register at http://beyondcausemarketing.com/ by September 30 for $49 rate.
When: October 8
Location: MIT Student Center, Cambridge
Website/RSVP: http://beyondcausemarketing.com/
