Category Archives: Spotlight Stories

Social Enterprise Institute Heads to Clinton Global Initiative University

By estherchou | Published: March 20, 2013
President Bill Clinton & Jon Stewart at CGIU 2012

Launched by Pres­i­dent Clin­ton in 2007, the Clin­ton Global Ini­tia­tive Uni­ver­sity (CGI U) aims to engage the next gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers on col­lege cam­puses around the world. CGIU con­venes annu­ally with over 1200 stu­dents, in part­ner­ship with youth orga­ni­za­tions, topic experts, and celebri­ties to dis­cuss and develop inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to press­ing global chal­lenges. CGI U’s five focus areas include: Edu­ca­tion, Envi­ron­ment and Cli­mate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alle­vi­a­tion, and Pub­lic Health.

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Katie Messick in La Chureca

By estherchou | Published: March 18, 2013
Katie Messick

Located out­side of Nicaragua’s cap­i­tal city of Man­agua, La Chureca is a com­mu­nity of 1,200 indi­vid­u­als liv­ing in the city’s munic­i­pal dump. The com­mu­nity is severely under­served in access to pub­lic ser­vices and unable to sus­tain them­selves. Manna Project Inter­na­tional (MPI), an orga­ni­za­tion work­ing to empower com­mu­ni­ties in need through vol­un­teer sup­port and edu­ca­tional pro­grams, is …
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Business Model Design for Social Impact— How NEU Students are Bridging the ‘Valley of Death’

By estherchou | Published: March 18, 2013
Dr. Gordon Adomdza

“The Val­ley of Death is the chasm between a new social inno­va­tion and the mar­ket that could greatly ben­e­fit from that inno­va­tion.”   - Pro­fes­sor Gor­don Adomdza  “The Val­ley of Death is where all good prod­ucts go when you don’t have the right busi­ness model to carry them across the val­ley to suc­cess­ful launch.”  - John DiRienzo, …
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Alumni Sean Smith at Invested Development

By ward.kell | Published: March 18, 2013

            Impact invest­ing has recently become one of the most uti­lized meth­ods to effect social change in the devel­op­ing world. Many orga­ni­za­tions world­wide invest in socially minded busi­nesses, with the inten­tion of gen­er­at­ing social and finan­cial returns. One such orga­ni­za­tion is Invested Devel­op­ment, an impact invest­ment man­age­ment firm that focuses on …
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Sarah Hodsdon, Kenya

By ward.kell | Published: March 11, 2013
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“Look­ing back, it was pretty crazy,” Sarah Hods­don said of her idea to travel to Kenya. The fifth-year senior, major­ing in inter­na­tional affairs with a minor in social entre­pre­neur­ship, just returned from a leave of absence dur­ing which she jour­neyed around the African coun­try. When asked how she came up with the idea to go, …
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Andrew Cabasso: A New York lawyer with a love for development

By ward.kell | Published: March 8, 2013
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A short while ago, I had the chance to inter­view Andrew Cabasso, a North­east­ern alumni class of 2009, and recent grad­u­ate of Fordham’s School of Law. Prior to speak­ing with him, I looked a lit­tle bit into his expe­ri­ences whilst at North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity, specif­i­cally with the Social Enter­prise Insti­tute where I dis­cov­ered that, as an …
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