Social Enterprise News
| February 21, 2014
Manmeet Kaur '12, executive director and founder of City Health Works, is applying lessons learned from community health programs in Africa and India to East Harlem.
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Social Enterprise News
| October 8, 2013
This article originally appeared on the Columbia University News page: http://news.columbia.edu/research/3241
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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
| May 5, 2013
Professors Ray Fisman and Bruce Usher,Co-Directors of the Social Enterprise Program (SEP),shed light on some of the challenges social entrepreneurs may face in making organizational decisions.
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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
| February 21, 2013
The generous endowed gift will support the teaching, research, and ancillary activities related to Usher’s role as the SEP’s co-director.
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Social Enterprise News
| November 16, 2012
More than 20 executives of nonprofit groups in Harlem came together at Columbia Business School for a leadership training program, "Strengthening West Harlem Nonprofits."
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Social Enterprise News
| October 19, 2012
For Kesha Cash '10, being an impact investor means doubling as a social entrepreneur and as an activist for the next generation of change-makers.
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Social Enterprise News
| February 20, 2012
Daniel Mintzer '13, Morris Cox '13, Donnel Baird '13, and Yaniv Kalish '12 came in second place at the annual Ross Renewable Energy Case Competition.
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Social Enterprise News
| January 20, 2012
A new study by Professor Jonah Rockoff and colleagues indicates that good elementary school teachers have a positive effect on students in the long-term.
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