A) & C)

I mentor teenagers including my own that universities are the next big bubble in USA almost as dangerous to their productive lifetimes as Wall Street. Their costs and required student loans gone up astronomically, and the more expensive the university the less their principals seem to define their purpose in job creation terms

Using the microentrepreneurial language of Yunus, most work in the future will be innovated while you are still being educated and enjoying extraordinary peer networks not by getting a top grade in an exam for a job waiting you in a big corporation or big government.

A1 I therefore interpret Georgia’s 1000 youth SB competition as a breakthrough for liberating the relationship between student and teachers. Almost every idea presented needs its principal to ask where in our college are we learning to network how to create jobs from that idea. In other words the large part of funding (future) competition winners must come from changing processes and reallocation of universities own revenues as well as the state’s budgets for social or business development. However by being the first to demonstrate this method across states, Georgia and Yunus and OFCVC can claim training revenues from other states or demand other partnership exchanges. I

A2 With job creation top of peoples agendas, there is also a timely opportunity to build on integrating the constituency networks OFCVC has developed in its 10 year long sharing of an entrepreneur program across colleges such as 1 principals 2 state and local government and development organisations 3 youth 4 business leaders

A3 Two next choices seem critical – the first handful of states to extend to –what will they give to be part of the process; within Georgia who else has funds that ought to want to join in promoting an innovation out of Georgia that the world of youth wants most (jobs/ income-gen futures) Examples of Georgia-leading industries  could include coca-cola, branson who indirectly started entrepreneur training and virgin unite out of Atlanta, ted turner already a reform UN partner of yunus. Interface the world most exciting model of transforming industry to zero carbon

Ideas of which states to extend to first:

C1 interested to know where ofcvc 101 college strength is and whether eg texas is a first candidate; I was sat at dinner next to sponsoring family rehman whose daughter works for fed economic development out of Austin- Austin is where one of 2 US CEOs most supporting yunus is based – ie John Mackey whole foods

C2 I have been searching which 4 places in usa could become epicenters for Yunus greatest projects- along with Atlanta I would suggest which ever state Intel chooses (the other US major  resources partner of Yunus and worldwide leader of infotech possibilities of Yunus) ; probably Massachussetts if we could negotiate that because the future of US education is tested out of there and Yunus number 1 global partnering agent (head of Grameen America) is headquartered in Boston; and maybe the princeton /new jersey region as which is where both monica yunus and sam daley harris are based.

Although I am based in DC and Maryland, I can say from experience that I don’t find these states easy to connect universities , though would happily join a group testing inter-state demand at any future time.

C3 A lot is changing in next few months so any ideas logged up now need continuous reappraisal:

In particular 2012 is the most political in US 4-year cycle and this time jobs will be number 1 agenda

Sam daley harris is ending 15 years of making microcredit his main network focus and turning to leading a wholly civil society networks- finding out his first regional hotspots seems relevant

B0 How do Yunus methods such as SB funds and SB stockmarkets connect?

B01 When I first met yunus at end of 2007 after forming  first 1000 social business  bookclub, he had two globally popular slogans that reinforced each other”

• join human race to poverty museums
• develop social business stockmarkets

he also used a more detailed vocabulary

a)social action – one year team development of small groups of students to test an emerging social business concept;

b) social business to be the main model he used to govern any goal-oriented project, organisation or network;

c)future capitalism to be a club of global partners connecting round yunus community economic models by investing some of the world’s most advanced tech resources as well as their finance and other capabilities

B02 Something I would most like to see journal of social business do is use its back pages to catalogue/update all cases of sb funds and sb capital markets. The Economist started life with front pages on changing weekly news; and bank pages developing ever more informative data. Why not JOSB too?

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There are many variants and ways to intervene with “SB funds” but the strategic ones that the French help yunus co-create from 2005 are economically very different from the PR ones hans reitz suggests yunus should promote in any city that wants to commemorate him