Robyn Fehrman
How Can You Tell If You are Ready to Scale?
Even the most successful social enterprises face challenges as they expand into new geographies, expand their product offerings, partner with others, or grow the size of their operations. Social enterprise growth often requires evaluation and evolution among multiple dimensions, including customer-facing criteria such as market size and product-market fit; operational and business model considerations such […]
A First-Timer’s Experience: 3 Reflections from SOCAP16
This post was written by Robyn Fehrman, Managing Director of CASE, in September 2016. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend SOCAP16 for the first time. With the tagline “A Conference at the Intersection of Money + Meaning,” this annual convening of global innovators, investors, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs deeply intrigued […]
Mindfulness: A Critical Tool for Social Impact
“Those of us who are called to advance a more just society ….also have a responsibility to create change while embodying the same principles of integrity and justice we hope to see in the world. This requires a level of mindfulness” – Gretchen Ki Steidle, Founder & President: Global Grassroots and Author, A Toolkit for […]
4 Lessons on Scaling Social Ventures through Partnerships
May 2016 Bigger isn’t always better. That’s one key headline global health entrepreneurs offered staff of USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation & Impact and Higher Education Solutions Network during a recent panel discussion titled Lessons Learned on the Journey to Scale. During the panel SEAD innovators from ayzh, Forus Health, Operation ASHA, and Noora Health […]
From SBSI16: 5 Ecosystem Issues Affecting Education Innovation in North Carolina
March 2016 Tension. Blended. Experimental. These are the words our practitioners chose when asked to describe North Carolina’s education ecosystem at the recent Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference. More importantly, these words quickly came to life as Darrell Alison, Dawn Arthur (Fuqua MBA ’13), Alex Quigley, Minnie Forte-Brown, shared their diverse perspectives on the […]
Welcoming Our New Director of Programs Robyn Fehrman
As CASE continues to scale the impact of our work, we are excited to announce a new addition to our incredible team. Starting in early December, Robyn Fehrman will join the CASE team as our new Director of Programs. As Director of Programs, Robyn will be a leader of our Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke […]