This past spring semester, I had the great fortune to be on co-op in Cape Town, South Africa working for TSiBA Education at the Ignition Centre. TSiBA Education is a tuition-free higher education provider that focuses on building future business leaders from South Africa’s pool of talented but poor and disadvantaged young people.
As the impact of social enterprise grows around the world, we in turn are growing our capacity to meet the market need for a new generation of highly motivated and well trained social entrepreneurs.
Consistent with the unique mission and approach of Northeastern, our social enterprise curriculum is student-centered, practice oriented, and global. Our focus is on design, development and finance for enterprises working in poverty reduction and economic development in low income countries and communities. We teach students how business and business principles can be a force for global good, especially when inspired and informed young people lead the way toward positive change, meaningful impact and broadly shared value.
Through my work with Heart Capital, I have been able to get into a Skype call with one of the creators of the Acumen Fund’s reporting tool, PULSE, and into the office of J-PAL Africa at the University of Cape Town. For students of social entrepreneurship or really anybody looking for an interesting and engaging co-op position, I highly recommend the one I currently have.
For April/May edition of the SEI Newsletter Awareness, Action and Social Entrepreneurship KONY 2012. It’s been a hot discussion topic around many campuses, ours included, over the past several weeks. Is it a good or a bad thing that an organization like Invisible Children focuses on awareness, rather than action Read more…
The Hult International Business School (HIB) is a non-research based school with campuses in Boston, Shanghai, London, San Francisco and Dubai and faculty with professional experience from various backgrounds. The school is in the top 1% of international business schools with a #1 ranking in International Experience and #5 in Read more…
The Piramal Foundation Fellowship for Sustainable Business is a two-year program that places bright and talented individuals into leadership positions within developing social businesses in India. The Fellowship begins with an orientation at the Indian School of Business where the fellows attend workshops, lectures, and discussions to form a crucial Read more…