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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Social Enterprise News
| October 15, 2010
Article by The Record, Columbia University, October 15, 2010
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Social Enterprise News
| June 25, 2010
With recent talks in Albany on benefit corporations, the SEP and Grameen Creative Lab are organizing a Social Business Lab.
Topics: Business Economics and Public Policy, Entrepreneurship, Organizations, Social Enterprise | Read Article
Social Enterprise News
| June 15, 2010
Being part of the solution is all the fashion on B-school campuses these days. For some MBA grads, it's more than a dream.
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Social Enterprise News
| September 23, 2009
More than 50 MBA students spent the summer working with socially engaged organizations in NYC. Here's a recap of some of their work.
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Social Enterprise News
| June 16, 2009
David Del Ser '08 developed and launched Frogtek while at Columbia Business School, and was awarded a 2009 Echoing Green Fellowship.
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