By Ritika Kumbharkar Colin Applegate is from the “Windy City.” He majored in International Business with minors in Spanish and Global Social Entrepreneurship while playing for the Northeastern Rugby Team. His three co-ops were as an administrative assistant for Pine Street Inn/iCater in Boston, intern for sustainable development for the Hispanic Read more…
By Kayla O’Neill Travel is a means through which we can explore the issues and need areas of places throughout the world. Making up nine percent of the world’s economy, tourism is a huge economic boom for places like Nepal, Costa Rica, and South Africa. But with the mountain climbers, rainforest Read more…
By Maria Bermudez Pizano Founded in 2005, some might argue that the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has been one of the most impactful organizations of modern philanthropy, having hosted or helped to broker 3,400 “commitments to action” (otherwise known as pledges) made by corporations, nonprofit organizations, and governments to address major Read more…
By Georgia Horton When I first met Luvuyo Rani during my global social enterprise Dialogue of Civilizations in Cape Town, South Africa, I was automatically impressed. I loved the work covered by Professor Shaughnessy and the local enterprise I was fortunate enough to have worked with, but Mr. Rani’s presentation of Read more…
By Brooke O’Connell All of us who eventually become interested in social enterprise have different paths to getting here, but we ultimately share the passion of doing good work for others. Ellen McNeill’s path would eventually lead her to social enterprise, but at the beginning she didn’t even known what it Read more…
By Monique Buckner It all started with an idea from leading farmers on the Ghana Cocoa Board. Nana Frimpong Abrebrese in particular, saw the opportunity in setting up farmers in a company to sell their own cocoa to the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC). The CMC is state-owned and is the Read more…