Social Enterprise News
| June 9, 2022
Four new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| May 3, 2022
Donnel Baird ’13 is the founder and CEO of BlocPower, a clean tech startup based in New York City that develops portfolios of clean energy retrofit opportunities in underserved communities and connects those opportunities to investors seeking social, environmental, and financial returns.
Topics: Energy, Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| March 8, 2022
Governor Deval Patrick is one of the country’s most talented and inspiring leaders who has blazed many trails across and between the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. We explore some of the through lines in a career that has included successful chapters in civil rights law and activism, policy and politics, and entrepreneurship and investing.
Topics: Capital Markets and Investments, Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| December 21, 2021
Three new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| June 17, 2021
Four new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
School News
| April 16, 2017
The second annual Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Awards Breakfast drew more than 250 attendees and raised a record-breaking $1 million.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Press Release
| December 21, 2016
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School announced the winners of its most recent round of funding. Three new social ventures, including the first nonprofit organization and first all-undergraduate founding team, received $25,000 each from the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures.
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Social Enterprise News
| June 21, 2013
Columbia Business School would like to invite you to our new Spark Social Venture Workshop series!
Spark provides Social Innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections and potential solutions to help their social ventures, by tapping the collective knowledge within Columbia University, and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community in the New York area and beyond.
This workshop is open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that these social innovators aim to address.
This event is supported by the?Social Enterprise Program, the?Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center and the?Social Enterprise Club?at Columbia Business School.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| March 6, 2013
Social Enterprise Program student Donnel Baird ’13 was recently featured on PBS Newshour as an “Agent of Change” for his social enterprise, BlocPower. BlocPower is an organization that aims to provide job training and energy-efficient products in underserved New York City neighborhoods.
Read the full article.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| October 15, 2010
Article by The Record, Columbia University, October 15, 2010
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