Beyond Business as Usual Conference 2011

FARMINGTON, Conn., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- reSET Social Enterprise Trust is pleased to host its second Beyond Business as Usual Conference on October 5, 2011 at The Hartford Club. This all-day event will celebrate, educate, and germinate social enterprise! It will bring together students, young professionals, educators, public advocates, investors, and social entrepreneurs to learn from each other and become actively engaged in making CT a hub of social enterprise.

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As part of the agenda, the reSET Social Entrepreneur Award winners will be announced. This award was established to recognize aspiring individuals with viable, sustainable business plans for social enterprise that will improve the community, create jobs, and demonstrate the power of harnessing profit to purpose. The program will also include social enterprise exhibits, panels and workshops on start-up capital; how to begin; legal structures; social media, and others.

Robert Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen, will be the keynote speaker. He is the voice for change and an influential figure in the social enterprise sector. Egger opened DC Central Kitchen in 1989. It is a community kitchen that uses locally sourced food to make meals for the hungry and provide on-the-job training for the unemployed. Since its inception, it has produced over 23 million meals and helped 800 men and women gain full time employment.

To LEARN about and REGISTER for reSET's Beyond Business as Usual Conference, please visit the following link: http://www.beyondbusinessasusual.org/

About Us

reSET is working to create a hub of social enterprise in Connecticut by encouraging the development of creative, socially responsible organizations that aspire to do more than just make a profit, but are also dedicated to people, purpose, and planet. With dwindling public resources, social enterprise offers a key to solving many of the threatening issues of our day and at the same time to create meaningful and satisfying jobs.

reSET Social Enterprise Trust is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to promote, preserve and protect social enterprise.

To learn more about reSET, go to: www.SocialEnterpriseTrust.org

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