February 2010
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GSEC Week
GSEC Week is coming! Here is the calendar for the upcoming Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition! Make sure to attend the events, so you can see presentations of REAL ventures taking place right here in our campus: You are invited to attend the 6th annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) Week, Mar 2-4 Meet the 2010 GSEC teams that were chosen from a record-breaking 161...
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This Week: Sammie Rayner on Lumana Credit
This Tuesday we are very excited to welcome Sammie Rayner. She will be kicking off our three week session on turning your solution for a social issue into a viable business. Sammie is the founder of both Lumana Credit and the Social Entrepreneurship Club. Lumana is a micro-lending organization, operating in Ghana, that takes a holistic approach to alleviating poverty. Sammie graduated from the...
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This Week: Keynote with Jessica Markowitz
The Social Entrepreneurship Club, Somali Student Association, African Studies Program, and the Jackson School Student Association are excited to welcome Jessica Markowitz, who will recount how she started Richard’s Rwanda— an organization that helps provide education to Rwandan girls— at age 12. “Bonding girl to girl, building peace, and looking into the window of Rwanda to...
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New Executive Blog!
Welcome to our new executive blog! Here you will find unofficial posts from the directors about social entrepreneurship that we find interesting and worth sharing.
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This Week: Mini Social Entrepreneurship Creativity...
Last Tuesday we had a very successful meeting where we split into groups, and with the guidance of social entrepreneurs came up with ideas in solving the world’s most pressing social issues. In connection to that, this coming Tuesday we will have our Mini-SECC (Social Entrepreneurship Creativity Competition) to continue with the 2nd step of creating a social venture - FORMING A SOLUTION...
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Youth Venture Community Panel
ANOTHER IMPORTANT REMINDER from Youth Venture, an organization which helps start youth-led organization: Dear Friends of Youth Venture Seattle, Don’t miss out on our next Community Panel where you’ll have the opportunity to hear the latest and greatest social Venture ideas from the young people we have been working with through our partnership with Global Visionaries. We’ve been...
