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- New: "JERR'S JOURNAL" (a monthly blog about all things social enterprise): please click here
- New: A ten-minute video conversation between Institute Executive Director Jerr Boschee and John Bennett, a veteran social enterpriser who is now the head of WISEA (Wales Ireland Social Entrepreneurship Alliance). Please click here.
- New: A briefing document about social enterprise prepared by the Social Enterprise Alliance at the request of the White House Office of Social Innovation; Institute Executive Director Jerr Boschee served as the principal author, assisted by Lisa Nitze (the former President and CEO of the Alliance), with research provided by Corinne Gray. Please click here for a pdf version of the briefing paper.
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JERR BOSCHEE,
FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jerr Boschee, 67, has been an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for more than 30 years and has long been recognized as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement worldwide. To date he's been a keynoter or conducted master classes in 43 states and 20 countries.
Jerr served for the first six months of 2010 as the full-time interim President and CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance (www.se-alliance.org), the largest membership organization for social entrepreneurs in North America. He and five others co-founded the Alliance in 1997.
He has previously been a senior communications executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of regional newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous academic institutions, including Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Oxford, Stanford and others.
Jerr served as President and CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs from 1991 to 1999 and was named by The NonProfit Times to its nonprofit sector "Power & Influence Top 50" lists in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He also served from 2001 to 2004 as an advisor to England's Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit and is the author or editor of six books.
Please click here for his complete biography.