Jon Axtell

Recent Activity

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  Jon signed the petition | 1 day ago

  Apple: Protect Workers Making iPhones in Chinese Factories
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  Jon commented on the petition | 11 months ago

  Tell Go Daddy's CEO: Real Men Don't Kill Elephants

  No Daddy!

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  Jon commented on the article | over 1 year ago

  Facing Forward: The End of the Social Entrepreneurship Blog on Change.org

  Nathaniel,

  
  

  Thanks for documenting the past few years.  A lot of us owe our understanding of the field to you. I'm really thankful for all of the great coverage you've shown SOCAP, but I'm also excited to see this next step.  

  
  

  BTW, Nathaniel showed me blueprints of Assetmap a little over a year ago and it was pretty incredible.  I'm sure it's come a long since then.  Can't wait to start using it.  

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  Jon signed the petition | about 2 years ago

  Tell Kraft to Adopt Cadbury's Ethical Behavior
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  Jon commented on the article | about 2 years ago

  The Life Investment

  Hub Bay Area is working on an event for this string of conversation.  Nathaniel, we'll be in touch about it, soon.  The email string was extremely interesting and I can't wait to see some in-person dialog about the topic. 

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  Jon commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  All At Once Entrepreneurship In China

  Hey Nathaniel,The revolution is coming.  I worked as a business teacher in rural Anhui teaching Entrepreneurship and it was incredible to see the next generation of leaders interest in the topic.  For Chinese people living under a communist system, it was easy to be stagnant and believe it was the purely the government's responsibility to respond to social challenges. Even post-Sichuan earthquake the government quickly tightened restrictions on non-profits(http://www.pri.org/business/nonprofits/china-sichuan-philanthropy1404.html).  It's for this reason that social business should have wide appeal to the Chinese government. The government has allowed free enterprise to thrive and utilizing businesses with a social focus to help tackle the economic divide is an easy way to avoid the political possibilities of a non-profit revolution.   This step is an important one in the overall development of Chinese responsibility towards the outside world.  With the critical ethical issues China faces in Sudan, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and other hotspots, it is essential that a new generation of social entrepreneurs takes the lead in economic development.  Here is an organization I recently came across that has some affiliation with Ashoka:http://english.youcheng.org/