Agenda

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Agenda

• Social Enterprise Institute
• Who is your favorite entrepreneur?
• What is SEI and what does SEI offer students?
• Domestic Programs
• International Programs
• Resources for student engagement research
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Enterprises
• Hybrid models, for-profit vs. non-profit models
• Playpump, Root Capital, Acumen Fund, Kickstart,
  Kiva and Nutriset

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Who are some of your favorite social
entrepreneurs?
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Who are some of your favorite social
entrepreneurs?

• Business is about problem-solving, but it does
  not always have to be about maximizing profit.
  When I went into business, my interest was to
  figure out how to solve problems I see in front
  of me. That's whyI created Grameen Bank. So you
  can also have social objectives. Ask yourself
  these questions Who are you? What kind of world
  do you want?
• Muhammad Yunus

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Another favorite entrepreneur

• The Social Enterprise Institute at
  Northeastern University is grounded in the
  belief that business can be one of the most
• powerful weapons to alleviate
• poverty and empower people living in
  developing countries.
• Dennis Shaughnessy

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What is SEI and what does SEI offer students?

• Domestic Programs
• International Programs
• Resources for student engagement research

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What is SEI and what does SEI offer students?

• Domestic Programs
• Citizen Schools (urban engagement for middle
  school students)
• New urban micro-finance loan program for
  resettled refugees in the Boston area

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What is SEI and what does SEI offer students?

• International Programs
• Field Study Programs (Dominican Republic, South
  Africa)
• New site locations include Northern India the
  Himalayas as well as Central America
• Incorporate growing student interest in new
  emerging fields

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Field Study Program Site Locations Summer 2010

• Summer I 2010
• Southeast Asia Program (new) May 3-30 (in
  progress)
• Dominican Republic Program June 1-27 (village
  banking rural micro-finance, research emphasis)
  
• Summer II 2010
• Belize Program (new) June 29-July 25 (green or
  sustainable environmental development emphasis)
• South Africa Program July 27-August 22 (urban
  entrepreneurs, consultation emphasis)

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South Africa Field Study Program Summer 2008
NU students participated in a weekend of service
to volunteer with orphans in the township of
Gugulethu. The service project was in
collaboration with another business NU-TSiBA
consulted with called Mhani Gingi, which means
creating wealth together in Xhosa. Here,
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) middler
Colette Kessler is featured with CBA Marketing
junior Johanna Spittle and CBA Finance junior
Katy Jerdee playing with several orphans from
Gugulethu. Below, CAS middler Danielle Dobson
stops to pose for a photo.
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What is SEI and what does SEI offer students?

• Resources for student engagement research
• Incubator program
• Grants for student research and co-ops (intl and
  domestic)

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Early Social Entrepreneurship Projects

• Microcredit program in a UNHCR refugee camp in
  Zambia
• Microenterprise consulting program in the favelas
  of Rio deJaneiro
• A publishing start-up providing peace books for
  Nigerian schoolchildren
• A social networking site for newly diagnosed
  cancer patients in the greater Boston area
• A community outreach program to assist Boston
  public school graduates in closing the unmet
  need in financing a college education

Meheba Refugee Camp, Zambia
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What is Social Entrepreneurship?

• An emerging discipline within entrepreneurship
• Fastest growing segment known as social
  business
• Employing traditional entrepreneurship principles
  to address social problems such as poverty,
  disease, illiteracy and inadequate housing
• Changing the world through business
• Includes both non-profit and for profit business
  models, and global and local enterprises and
  initiatives
• Leading business schools almost universally have
  SE programs Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Stanford,
  Duke, Columbia, NYU

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Social Enterprisesusing business solutions to
end poverty

• Non Profit Organizations
• Kiva.org, Acumen Fund (non-profit venture fund)
• For Profit Models
• Banco Compartamos, Nutriset
• Hybrid Models
• For profit with a non-for profit in one
• Famous examples include Aravind Eye Care,
  FreePlay Energy, (where end user is not the same
  as the client), Grameen Bank

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Videos

• Acumen Fund http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhGJMIM
  YIhl4
• Kiva.org
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vMXk4GUGXNTQ
• Nutriset
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6VSCMoRDp2c