Charles Tsai

Admit it. The day you learned you get to give a TED talk, you couldn’t help but burst with pride. Sure, it’s not the TED conference… just a local TEDx event. But who cares?! In many people’s eyes, you’ve arrived. This is your 18 minutes of fame! Finally, you get to talk to people outside [...]

On July 15, 2010, I delivered a 2-hour keynote address on the Green Generation, a theme of the Global Initiatives Symposium, organized by the National Taiwan University.  Here’s the blurb for my talk/workshop… The Green Generation: Redefining Success, Progress and Innovation The next Green Revolution has already begun.  Its seeds are being planted not in [...]

Through Ashoka, I was invited to visit Belgrade for a week to train NGOs as well as youth in Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.  The youth were entrants in an innovation competition organized by the Ministry of Finance. From June 15 to 18, I shared with the participants various tools for “customer discovery” as well as [...]

In February, I brought a contingent of young inventors to Ashoka’s global conference called Tech4Society. The 13 youth (1 American, 1 Canadian, 2 Argentinean, 1 Mexican, 8 Indian) presented their projects to the entire conference and received the only standing ovation at the gathering. We were really proud of the youth venturers, some of whom [...]

Now that I feel more settled in Washington, DC, I hope to post more regularly, starting with this update. I’ve begun working on what should have been the first toolkit, the one that ties together all the toolkits.  But I needed to work on the individual chapters to get a sense of how they will [...]

I was honored to have given a presentation at the inaugural TEDxTaipei on October 17, 2009. I spoke about Inconvenient Youth, a term I used to describe young changemakers. When the video is posted, I will provide a link here.  Stay tuned!

I semi-officially unveiled the Creative Activist Toolkit today with an interview on Change.org.  Technically we’re still in “beta” but it’s good to test the waters with our initial chapters. It’s already getting a good response but I look forward to additional feedback in the weeks ahead. Youth can offer so much in terms of great [...]

Well, it’s official. I’ve been invited to speak at the very first TEDxTaipei on October 17, 2009. I’ve been a huge fan of the TED phenomenon for a few years now so it’s an honor to be invited to speak at a TED event. This year, the Taipei event has three sub-themes: Taiwan Stories, Design [...]

CAT008a: Pitch Template – Keynote View more presentations from Charles Tsai. A companion chapter to Perfect Your Pitch (Chapter 7), this one offers a template that you can use to create a funding pitch for your social change project. It’s also available in PowerPoint format.

CAT007: Perfect Your Pitch View more documents from Charles Tsai. If you ever have to present your project to funders, this chapter on how to “perfect your pitch” may come in handy.