Social Entrepreneurship Club UW: promoting social entrepreneurship at the University of Washington.............................................................
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Looking for summer internships? Come to Internship Night where you can find various opportunities for internships from local social entrepreneurs.
- Dress Business Casual
- This event is open to all majors
- Light refreshments will be served
Registration Link: http://secuwcharitynight.eventbrite.com/
Enjoy your drinks for a good cause! It’s happy hour all night for people who donate. There’ll be fun activities and awesome entertainment throughout the night. All donations will go to Livlife (www.livlife.org).
Livlife is a Tanzanian based charity that provide sustainable Education Centres that give people the skills, knowledge and confidence to build better lives for themselves at a free cost.
This event is also in conjunction with the University of Washington’s Future World-Class Leaders Association
Here’s the debriefing for Tuesday’s Hold-Up for Microryza!
Microryza is launching today, help them spread the word so that many fun-guys can fund innovative research!
Join our 90 minutes brainstorming session to help Microryza, a startup founded by UW students! Microryza is a social crowdfunding platform for research projects.
This is another Startup from Startup Weekend Edu in Seattle. Here is their pitch:
I bet you all wonder where the name comes from, right? It comes from Mycorrhiza. But what the heck are Mycorrhizae? Mycorrhizae are symbiotic, microscopic fungi that live in the roots of plants, and they are found everywhere that plants grow. They break down nutrients, fight off pathogens, and stabilize the soil. Although they’re small and unnoticeable, when you have lots of them they can support an entire ecosystem of roots, shrubs, and trees. Without mychorizzae many of the plants on our planet would not survive.
Here’s the Challenge: Microryza is launching this Thursday, how would you make it known to the largest number of people?
Goals:
- 100 000 users in 6 months (Seattle)
- 50 projects
- Same spirit as the website
Constraints:
- Target donors (not researchers)
- 7 people in the Microryza team (5 full time)
- Creativity > Money
This event is co-organized with MakeSense, the open movement for Social Entrepreneurship.
The second Hold-Up in Seattle brought to you by the MakeSense crew and SEC UW.
We will be solving the challenge of Street Code, a Startup that makes donations to homeless people more easy and humane through QR codes: http://swsea.posterous.com/street-code.
Street Code won 2nd place at last Startup Weekend at the Hub.
The challenge: How can we test if people would scan the qr code?
Goals:
- test with 10 homeless people
- for a week
- make sure the process is hassleless/enjoyable for both te homeless person and the passerby
Constraints:
- Affordable
- Brief
- Distribution by the organizations that help homeless people
Need to do some holiday shopping? Come visit the vendors at FAIR TRADE MARKETPLACE on November 30th, 1-5 PM.
WHAT IS FAIR TRADE?
Quality Products. Improving Lives. Protecting the Planet.
Fair Trade goods are just that. Fair. Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries make better trading conditions and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as higher social and environmental standards.fit, but we don’t do charity. Instead, we teach disadvantaged communities how to use the free market to their advantage.
HOW CAN YOU HELP THE CAUSE?
Buy fair trade products! You can start by purchasing the products here, at SEC 3rd Annual Fair Trade Markeplace. Ask the vendors what impacts are you creating by purchasing their products. They’d be glad to explain.
HAPPY HOLIDAY SHOPPING!
The Social Entrepreneurship Club is holding their 2nd Annual Networking Night next Thursday May 19th from 5:30 - 7pm. This is a chance to connect with social entrepreneurs, students and faculty all passionate about social justice. To register or find more information please go to http://secnetworkingnight.eventbrite.com/. It is at the Douglas Forum Bank of America Education Center at the University of Washington campus!
Hello SEC friends! We hope you enjoyed our speaker for our last meeting, James Dailey. This coming Tuesday, May 3rd we are hosting VillageReach! The meeting will start at 5:30 in Savery Hall 260. We hope to see you all there!
About VillageReach:
VillageReach improves access to healthcare for remote, underserved communities around the world. We partner with governments, businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations to improve the performance and reliability of health systems in the most inaccessible and isolated last mile communities.
This coming Tuesday, April 19th we are hosting James Dailey from MicroEnergy Credits! The meeting will start at 5:30 in Savery Hall 260. We hope to see you all there!
About MicroEnergy Credits:
MicroEnergy Credits is a social enterprise which links microfinance institutions to the carbon markets when they lend for clean energy. MEC sells the carbon credits earned by replacing dirty fuels like kerosene, wood, coal and dung on the voluntary carbon markets and passes the carbon revenues along to its partner institutions. The institutions can then use the revenues to offset their costs of running the clean energy program or can pass the savings along to the client in the form of reduced interest rates, free battery replacements or other benefits. In 2008, MEC won the Global Social Venture Business Plan Competition for its innovative business model which makes accessing the carbon markets easy for MFIs.
