Zoombala.com - North America's 1st Social Network & Online platform for Social Entrepreneurs

PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 02, 2008 – The Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation (CSEF) based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is happy to announce the beta launch of Zoombala.com – North America’s 1st online social network and online community for Social Entrepreneurs. Zoombala.com was developed for Social Entrepreneurs by Social Entrepreneurs.

“CSEF’s '3 pillar mandate' is to Educate, Innovate and Celebrate within the sector of Social Entrepreneurship” said Jason-Leo Carvalho, Founder of The Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation. “With the launch of Zoombala.com, CSEF's first online initiative, we will be fulfilling our mandate to Educate and Innovate.”

“Zoombala.com’s goal is to help increase deal flow” states Jason-Leo. “With real time link ups to Mentors and Investors using the most up to date online technologies, the Zoombala Team believes we have a powerful solution to real problems faced by early stage social enterprises such as understanding organizational metrics of success and finding capital.”

Zoombala.com doesn’t aim to be “another social networking website”. The goal of Zoombala.com is clear: link social entrepreneurs with capital and professional mentorship which will enable them to create sustainable social enterprises.

Zoombala.com’s Founding Sponsor is UK based Inspiris. “For those passionate about fighting poverty, there have been two remarkable trends in the last couple of years” states Zahid Torres-Rahamn, Director of Inspiris and Founder of Business Fights Poverty.

“One is the groundswell of interest in the role of business in fighting poverty, with social entrepreneurship offering the most innovative examples of this in practice” continues Zahid.

“The other is the power of new technology to transform this interest into scalable action. CSEF’s Zoombala.com – North America’s first social network and online platform developed by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs – will provide an exciting way to harness the collective energies, experiences and insights of the world’s most pioneering social entrepreneurs. As a leading advisor and connector working at the interface of business, poverty reduction and new technology, Inspiris is proud to be the Founding Sponsor of Zoombala.com.”

Zoombala.com is currently accepting beta users. It is a closed a beta and access to Zoombala.com is by invitation only. Zoombala.com is asking budding social entrepreneurs, experienced social entrepreneurs, mentors, funding organizations, educational institutions, and governments to sign up. To sign up please log onto www.zoombala.com.

Zoombala.com is an online initiative created by the Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation. You can follow Zoombala.com on Twitter at www.twitter.com/zoombala


Contact
Ken Taka
media!@csef.ca
The Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation
www.csef.ca