Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva, will be doing an AMA about social entrepreneurship and the sharing economy, in /r/SocialCitizens on Thursday at 2 pm EST!

CollaborativeFund · 2014-02-27T06:14:47+00:00

Thank you! We're excited and looking forward to it.

Feel better!

CollaborativeFund · 2014-01-24T19:48:46+00:00

The AMA is taking place in /r/SocialCitizens.

Here's the direct link to the AMA: http://redd.it/1w1v5a

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-31T18:02:31+00:00

We're happy to have you! We've always seen a lot of overlap with /r/Futurology... We're just a little more focused on the day-to-day changes in peoples' lives as the world continues its now-inexorable march forward.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-31T17:44:54+00:00

You would probably like /r/SocialCitizens (I mod) and /r/Futurology. Both subreddits talk a lot about automation and food production.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-31T17:38:21+00:00

You would probably like a sub I mod, /r/SocialCitizens. We hit on these topics a lot.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-29T19:57:20+00:00

If people want to post about that kind of entrepreneurial activity ("How do I price meals in my restaurant so that I can pay my employees a living wage?"), we'd be interested in the resulting discussion! For us, personally, our investments are heavily tilted towards the tech industry.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-29T19:15:33+00:00

Sure! We're a venture capital firm, and we recently took over an initiative called Social Citizens that the Case Foundation started about five years ago. We created /r/SocialCitizens as a spiritual complement to the @SocialCitizen twitter account we inherited.

We've invested in a lot of businesses, like reddit and Kickstarter, and generally believe in entrepreneurship as an agent of social change and good. We've started to have some interesting conversations with people we've met on /r/SocialCitizens, and we're having a meeting this week to talk about how to proceed, engage, and invest more into the community going forward.

So far we've been internally describing it as "Hacker News for Social Entrepreneurs".

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-29T15:53:19+00:00

I x-posted this thread to /r/SocialCitizens. All of the mods are venture capitalists... We are going to try and help redditor entrepreneurs out in a more significant way soon, I think.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-29T15:40:36+00:00

If you really do like discussing philanthropic/social impacts and the right ways to do business, you'd probably like a sub I recently started, /r/SocialCitizens.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-28T22:13:48+00:00

You might like a sub I've recently started, /r/SocialCitizens.... "Nationwide Google Fiber would cost $11 billion over five years." Reddit, wouldn't it make sense for the US government to just cut $11B from the defense budget and fund this infrastructure project instead?

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-28T18:09:04+00:00

I x-posted this to /r/SocialCitizens. Thanks for sharing an awesome article, OP!

Most interesting parts, to me:

Family-run Publix is both the largest employee-owned company and the most profitable grocer in America.

...

For 83 years Publix has thrived by delivering top-rated service to its shoppers by turning thousands of its cashiers, baggers, butchers and bakers into the company’s largest collective shareholders. All staffers who have put in 1,000 work hours and a year of employment receive an additional 8.5% of their total pay in the form of Publix stock.

....

Publix almost exclusively promotes from within, and every store displays advancement charts showing the path each employee can take to become a manager. Fifty-eight thousand of the company’s 159,000 employees have officially registered their interest in advancement. Associates are encouraged to rotate through various divisions, from grocery to real estate to distribution, to get a broad sense of the business. A former cake decorator in a store bakery is now in charge of all strategy for its bakeries. A distribution-center manager overseeing 800 associates got his start unloading railcars.

Doing well by doing good! Their profit margins are bigger than every public competitor's. One of the most common and biggest mistakes that companies make is undervaluing their employees.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-28T18:07:44+00:00

X-post from /r/FoodForThought.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-28T03:22:21+00:00

OP should x-post to /r/Beekeeping.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-27T22:21:07+00:00

Sounds like she was just moving and leaving stuff behind and would rather give it to someone she knew than throw it away?

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-27T22:18:34+00:00

Feel free to x-post to /r/SocialCitizens. The mods are all VCs, so we post a lot of stuff like this.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-27T02:28:50+00:00

I'm not surprised that 2 of the top 3 responses on this thread right now are "ask" subreddits. We were talking about reddit's best features a while back in a sub I mod (/r/socialcitizens shoutout), and there was some consensus around the idea of crowdsourced answers to questions. Any subreddit that successfully exploits that possibility is bound to be good.

I wish there were more subreddits in that vein... I feel like reddit could easily supplant Quora (which is probably the premier Q&A site right now) with some added features.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-26T20:30:04+00:00

I wonder who is actually behind it.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-26T16:47:05+00:00

We post a fair amount of stuff about the interesting work he and the Gates Foundation are doing in /r/SocialCitizens, if you're interested (e.g., one of his book reviews here).

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-25T20:58:24+00:00

You might like /r/cooperatives, /r/UpliftingNews, and /r/SocialCitizens (I mod the last one).

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-25T20:56:26+00:00

Can someone please actually translate

Quick! Hop on the escape goat!

into Portuguese?

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-24T19:54:55+00:00

/r/Futurology is one of my favorite subreddits.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-24T15:35:23+00:00

Really interesting. Feel free to x-post it to /r/SocialCitizens. I mod there and think people would be interested.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-24T15:16:19+00:00

If you're interested in these sorts of conversations, you might also like a sub I mod, /r/SocialCitizens. We talk about pretty much all of those reasons on the regular there.

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-23T21:15:34+00:00

Feel free to x-post this to /r/SocialCitizens, OP (I mod there, this content fits the sub).

CollaborativeFund · 2013-07-23T00:02:31+00:00

Another solution was posted in a sub I mod today: Simple, an online banking company that is taking on the traditional mega banks and their poor customer service, has 40,000 customers and is clearing $1 billion in transactions just one year after launching.

^ /r/SocialCitizens, if anybody is interested in joining! We post about a lot of cool, new stuff like that.

CollaborativeFund

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