Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Just for a change powered by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Just for a change powered by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosts 'Conversations with change-makers'. Spotlighting the stories of innovators, social entrepreneurs, industry leaders, activists and more about the work they do, and what makes them tick. We find out how they keep the fire burning when it comes to tackling some of the most - to use a systems change term - wicked problems - facing the world today.

We aim to appeal to people who are curious about solving social issues in the world around them and especially those who believe in changing the way we're changing the world.
Monthly English South Africa Non-Profit · Business
66 Episodes
40 – 60

S2, Ep. 4: Entrepreneurship as a catalyst for systems change

The truth is that not all entrepreneurs are created equal. When faced with a backwards system with inadequate funding structures, restrictive policies, outdated networks, a huge skills gap and all the red tape around registering a business, you’re nothing less than a hero as an entrepreneur in Africa. In this…
20 Oct 2021 41 min
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S2, Ep 4 Teaser: Entrepreneurship as a catalyst for systems change

Do you believe that entrepreneurship has the power to transform Africa? It all boils down to the systems change privately owned businesses bring and their potential to drive continental development. The problems are evident in the global south but are the solutions just as evident? In this episode of Just…
15 Oct 2021 2 min

S1. Ep13 -Season Wrap-up episode - Making sense of systems justice

It’s hard to believe that the ‘Just for a Change' powered by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship is wrapping up it’s first season! When this podcast launched in the middle of the pandemic last year it was a leap into the unknown and it’s really special to…
15 Jun 2021 41 min
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S1 Teaser- wrap-up episode - Making sense of systems justice

‘Just for a change powered by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ show notes Season 1 wrap-up episode teaser: Making sense of systems justice Can you believe that we’ve reached the end of season one of the Just for a Change podcast? It’s been a jam-packed first season…
14 Jun 2021 3 min

S1, Ep.11: Youth sector - changing the way we’re supporting youth TOGETHER

With roughly 200 000 social benefit organisations listed on the department of social development, many of them working with young people it’s clear that there is fragmentation within the youth sector. The role of technology in driving integration and using technology as a leverage point to create more opportunities for…
19 Apr 2021 44 min

S1 Ep.10 Changing the way we’re financing the world

Investors around the world are reimagining how capital can be utilised to have a positive impact on the world. How, you might wonder? Through impact investing. Impact investing can be a technical and sometimes hard to grasp concept. In this episode we find out more about the world of impact…
23 Mar 2021 43 min
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S1 Ep.10 Teaser - Changing the way we’re funding the world

The chaotic year of 2020 exposed deep systemic vulnerabilities and magnified the need for an intensified use of capital to address splintering social and environmental dynamics across the globe. In episode 10 of the Just for a change podcast, we're talking all things impact investing. Subscribe to this podcast channel…
19 Mar 2021 3 min

S1 Ep.9 COVID-19 vaccination, the social justice challenge of our time

The vaccine has arrived and it’s complex. It’s been said before this pandemic has merely revealed social justice issues that have been with us for years and perhaps it is the vaccine and its roll-out that reveals these issues to their very core. Who gets the vaccine first? How do…
24 Feb 2021 44 min
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