Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Iniative. What is SESi The Social Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Initiative (SESi) takes an entrepreneurial approach to global change by applying innovation and sustainability to the world's most pressing societal challenges.
Launched at Rollins in 2010, SESi helps Rollins students channel powerful and diverse passion for social change into solution-oriented action. Read More... Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurship Major - Belmont University. Social Entrepreneurship Across the Campus. Social entrepreneurs are growing in number on the Cornell campus, supported by a variety of courses, student clubs and university-wide efforts to encourage students to use the skills of entrepreneurship to be agents of change in the world.
See the cover story from ESHIP Magazine that details some of the ways Cornell is embracing social entrepreneurship. Cornell President David Skorton has been vocal in his support for social entrepreneurship. “If there ever was a time for higher education to be front and center in solving societal problems, that time is now,” he said during a 2009 commencement address. Cornell was chosen as one of four model universities by the Ashoka Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports social entrepreneurs and education. Through this partnership, the university will further develop its resources to support social entrepreneurs and help mentor other campuses who are developing similar programs. Social Value Creation - Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Master of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change. In light of the major social and economic issues around the world, the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) has established a new degree which will empower students to effect change at the local and global levels.
With a course curriculum that builds business, management, and leadership proficiency, the 40-unit Master of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change will encourage students to explore the root causes of pressing problems affecting individuals, communities, and nations, and develop models for sustainable solutions. Join the ranks of the many GSEP students and alumni already striving to address social challenges around the world. This program is applicable for students interested in working in advocacy, philanthropy, or nonprofit management, and who will benefit from Pepperdine’s distinguished faculty and legacy of service. Request a program packet or RSVP for an information meeting. Follow Us: Pepperdine Business Newsroom - Graziadio School of Business and Management. This time of year first-year full-time MBA students at the Graziadio School are narrowing in on summer internships.
Full-time MBA students looking for experience with companies and organizations affecting social change, and alumni seeking such talent, will find a perfect fit with the Graziadio Social Enterprise Program that is offered through the Office of Alumni and Career Services. The school’s Board of Visitors has underwritten a limited number of funds that are allocated into stipends for qualified students who wish to spend their summers applying business management skills to solutions to social problems. Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Social Entrepreneurship Courses. Make a difference in developing countries and get credit!
Get involved by taking one or more of the courses listed below. Each one is project-based so you will understand a different culture, design a new product and plan a business. Click on each course name to register for the course for the spring 2001 semester. OMT 494 Global Impact Entrepreneurship (Spring 2011 SLN 27030) - also cross-listed as EGR494 (Spring 2011 SLN 20836 - capstone project), SOS 494 (Spring 2011 SLN 21810), IND 494 (Spring 2011 SLN 21858) and IND 598 (Spring 2011 SLN 27191) - A project course to develop sustainable business ventures in the base of the pyramid populations.
MBA Students Take Honors in Social Entrepreneurship Competition. MBA student Anthony Shop presents a model for social return on investment.
Credit: Marriott School Brigham Young University GWSB MBA students earned high honors last month in a case competition that went beyond the bottom line and asked participants to measure the benefits of social entrepreneurship. The first Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition, held Feb.10-12 at Brigham Young University, asked MBA students to create a model for social enterprise organization Fundación Paraguaya and calculate its social return on investment.
Fundación Paraguaya develops innovative solutions to poverty and unemployment, and spreads them around the world. A team of four from GWSB that included MBA students Robin Pollak, Anthony Shop, Michael Nothum and Michael Battaglia, a second-year PMBA student and operations manager for the International Council for Small Business at GWSB, came in second place to the University of Michigan for the model they presented. UCLA Extension : Advocacy, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Role of Nonprofits in Society. Nonprofits play a critical role in society, often able to address social needs and issues in more meaningful ways than their for-profit and government counterparts.
Yet that role is changing. Increasingly, nonprofits must enlarge their focus to include advocacy and social entrepreneurship. We discuss the changing role of nonprofits in society, particularly zeroing in on when and how nonprofits should take on an advocacy role to address issues critical to their mission. New Wharton programs reflect social entrepreneurship trend. Amidst the recession, business has seen a shifting focus toward social entrepreneurship.
A new curriculum and several programs at Wharton reflect this trend. Every year, there are more students interested in social impact, Vice Dean of the Wharton Program for Social Impact Leonard Lodish said. Social entrepreneurship is the practice of applying entrepreneurial principles to promote a social good. It does not necessarily involve nonprofits. For-profit businesses may also promote a social good, according to Emily Cieri, managing director of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs. Wharton has made a conscious effort to promote social entrepreneurship at Penn. In December, the business school also announced the new Program for Social Impact. NYU Stern Undergraduate Program: Social Impact. Catherine B. Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship. Who are the NYU Reynolds Changemakers?
The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service. Each year, the program will expose a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students from throughout New York University to the cross-disciplinary skills, experiences and networking opportunities needed to advance and support their efforts to realize sustainable and scalable pattern-breaking solutions to society's most intractable problems.
The program will also bring the field of social entrepreneurship to the greater NYU community. All interested NYU students can take advantage of many of the program's resources, including access to influential leaders in the field, exposure to cutting-edge research and scholarship on social entrepreneurship, access to new classes, and the opportunity to participate in skill building activities and trainings. Gift Establishes the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Robert and Margaret Patricelli Wesleyan University is establishing the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, which will support students who want to create programs and organizations serving the public good – anywhere in the world.
The Patricelli Center and its programs are supported by a generous $2 million leadership gift from the Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation. Robert E. Social Entrepreneurship - AHC - Whole Systems Healing, University of Minnesota. Do you have a passion to make a difference in the world? Tap into your inner entrepreneur! You have the potential whether or not you have any knowledge or experience of business, starting things, or even working with others. All it takes is enthusiasm, a willingness to work harder than you’ve ever worked in your life, and a bit of good luck. Best Nonprofit Programs. Social Enterprise Program : The Social Enterprise Program.
University - Social Entrepreneurship Program - 2011 Professors in Social Entrepreneurship. University - Social Entrepreneurship Program - Get Involved. Leading the way in social entrepreneurship — The ASU Lodestar Center. ASU leading the way in social entrepreneurship Arizona State University January 21, 2011 - As part of ASU's ongoing evolution as a "New American University," two of its design aspirations focus specifically on building an institution that is meaningfully embedded in the communities it serves and that is entrepreneurial on all levels.
These efforts have earned ASU a "Community Engagement" classification from the Carnegie Foundation and a recognition as a Kauffman Foundation "Kauffman Campus" - a national initiative aimed at better preparing students for success in the American economy by increasing access to entrepreneurial education. In 2010, ASU was the first Western university and only 1 of 10 universities nationally to be invited to join the Changemaker Campus Consortium by Ashoka, an organization dedicated to fostering social entrepreneurship.
This podcast features a conversation with: Dr. Click here to listen to the podcast. Social Entrepreneurship - University of Baltimore. Many classes in this minor have a service-learning or experiential education component, and you will complete a semester-long field study, or internship, with a community organization in conjunction with a senior project that integrates field study and classroom and research work. You will explore courses from community studies and civic engagement, business, government and public policy, and negotiations and conflict management with particular focus on Central Maryland and its nonprofit organizations. Community studies and civic engagement majors are not eligible for this minor.
Requirements and Guidelines This minor requires you to have completed at least 24 credits with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0. You may use a maximum of 6 credits to satisfy both major (degree) and minor requirements. Minor Requirements (15 credits) Required Courses (12 credits)