August - September 2011: Guardian Social Enterprise Network - "On Purpose interviews"
31 May 2011: Business Fights Poverty - "Are private sector supply chains the answer to scaling social enterprises?"
16 May 2011: The Guardian - "The Social Enteprise Roller Coaster"
12 May 2011: Real Business - "Happy 2nd Birthday to On Purpose"
14 March 2011: The Guardian - "Social enterprises and the private sector supply chain" (includes On Purpose partnership with O2)
14 March 2011: Real Business - "New entrepreneur training programme launches" (compares this organisation to the "very successful On Purpose"
14 February 2011: The Young Foundation - "Growing Social Ventures" (includes as case study on On Purpose)
11 February 2011: The Guardian - "Social Enterprise recruitment practices need honing"
25 January 2011: The Guardian - "Should social enterprise be looking to private businesses for contracts?"
15 December 2010: The Guardian - "On Purpose: one year on"
15 December 2010: The Guardian - "Leading Questions"
1 November 2010: The London Magazine - "The new face of doing good, meet the venture philanthropists, slick, professional and not-for-profit"
16 August 2010: Turning up for Life, by Bill Aronson, one chapter is dedicated to On Purpose
8 July 2010: Freshminds Talent - "Seeking tomorrow's social enterprise leaders"
24 June 2010: Real Business - "On Purpose - Changing the face of Social Enterprise"
10 Mau 2010: Escape the City - "Tom Rippin 'Hero' profile"
19 March 2010: School For Startups - "Featured Entrepreneurs, Tom Rippin"
15 March 2010: McKinsey & Company - "Tom Rippin: Getting a sense of purpose"
12 March 2010: Brand Republic - "Getting high-flyers into social enterprise"
9 March 2010: Third Sector - "Money Matters: Social Entrepreneurship Policy Group, Charity Finance Directors' Group and young high-fliers join social enterprises"
4 March 2010: Social Enterprise Magazine - "Leading social enterprises help lever new talent into the sector"
3 March 2010: The Guardian - "Leading Questions"
3 March 2010: The Guardian - "On Purpose: A Rippin idea"
2 March 2010: The Guardian - "Young high-flyers required for a fresh challenge"
LONDON, 12 May 2011: On Wednesday the Spring in Vauxhall hosted the On Purpose annual event, welcoming 180 guests including leaders from social enterprise, business and charities together with aspiring leaders of the next generation.
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LONDON, 2 March 2010: Last night saw the launch event for On Purpose, the programme that develops young high-flyers for social enterprise. Well over 100 guests from the social enterprise, commercial and charities sectors came together to mark the start of the On Purpose programme six weeks ago...
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LONDON, 1 March 2010: Much hope is placed in the potential social enterprises have to solve many of society’s biggest problems. Especially in these frugal times, the scalability self-sustainability of social enterprises is hugely attractive to government and other funders. However, little attention is being paid to ensuring that the sector not only has the funds but also the talent it needs to fulfil its promise...
On Purpose is a welcome initiative to encourage talented people to experience working in social enterprise with the support of relevant training and development. We need to engage people in purpose-driven organisations early in their career, so we can grow the next generation of third sector leaders.”
Dame Mary Marsh, Director, Clore Social Leadership Programme
