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SUMMARY:APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS \nThe Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (“the Fund”) provides seed grants to nonprofit\, for-profit\, or hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Preference will be given to start-up ventures that have the potential to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term. \nRead more about the criteria and process HERE. \nFor questions\, please reach out to tamersvfund@gmail.com.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-tamer-fund-social-ventures/
CATEGORIES:Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS
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SUMMARY:Making Markets Work for Underserved Communities: Micro and Small Enterprise Development
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL \n  \nTuesday\, March 20 \n6:00–8:00 p.m. \n\nColumbia Business School \n3022 Broadway\, Uris Hall\, Room 333 \nNew York\, NY 10027 \nRSVP → \n  \nHow can we make markets more accessible and competitive to enable individuals to find their own way out of poverty? How do we effectively promote entrepreneurship through government policy\, private sector business practices\, and social sector advocacy? What are the risks and challenges for micro and small enterprises in rural settings? \nJoin us for a ten-minute film screening of Zaza Rising and a panel discussion on making markets work for underserved communities through micro and small enterprise development\, featuring: \n\nAmbassador Valentine Rugwabiza\, Permanent Representative to Rwanda’s UN Mission\nKaren Yelick\, CEO of Indego Africa\nLeslie Labruto\, Global Energy Lead at Acumen\nLora Romano\, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Blue Marble Organic Ice Cream\nGeorge Franklin ’18BUS\, Founder of Baobab Circle\nBrigit Helms\, Senior Advisor at DAI\n\n  \nAbout Zaza Rising \nThis short\, ten-minute documentary tells the timely story of one Rwandan woman’s courage\, strength\, and hope for a better tomorrow. Christine Nyirahabimana started a small bakery in rural Rwanda\, hiring 10 HIV positive\, single mothers as her employees. Despite incredible odds stacked against her\, she is a beacon of light for her community and an inspiring example of how one individual can effect change and break generational cycles of poverty through social entrepreneurship.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/making-markets-work-underserved-communities-micro-small-enterprise-development/
CATEGORIES:Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS
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SUMMARY:SPARK WORKSHOP: Helping Good People Do More Good for More People
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL \nSPARK WORKSHOP \nOpen Collaborative Social Innovation: Helping Good People Do More Good for More People \nFacilitated By George Kyriakopoulos \nTuesday\, March 27\, 2018\n6-8 p.m.\nRefreshments included with RSVP \nUris Hall\, Room 140\n3022 Broadway\nNew York\, NY 10027 \nOVERVIEW\nLarge corporations are leveraging the best collaborative innovation technologies to generate billions of dollars in new business. By bringing together thousands of minds from around the world to engage on tactical\, strategic\, and operational problems\, they’re able to identify solutions that would otherwise never see the light of day. \nWhat if these same technologies could be leveraged for problem solving for social impact? What if nonprofits of any size\, anywhere around the world\, could tap into the expertise and resources of those same minds? \nEndeavour Innovation is a single\, central\, open impact innovation platform available to nonprofits at no cost. They are creating the capacity to engage with anyone\, anywhere around the world\, and at any time for social impact.\n \nAREAS FOR DISCUSSION \n\nWhat are the fundamental benefits to having a single platform for global open collaboration?\nWhat are universities’ or corporations’ willingness to pay?\nWhat would motivate individuals or teams to commit time to global innovation challenges?\n\nSPEAKER BIOGRAPHY\nGeorge Kyriakopoulos is currently a Senior Innovation Consultant at Brightidea working primarily with Fortune 500 corporations globally. He builds continuous programmatic innovation into organizations by helping to create an environment where the risky practice of innovation can survive and flourish through appropriate exposure and expansion in time. \n\n  \n \nSpark provides Social Innovators with an opportunity to explore resources\, connections and potential solutions to help their social ventures. These workshops tap into the collective knowledge within Columbia University and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community. \nSpark is a platform for ventures to make valuable connections\, as the audience is a self-selected group interested in the topic area. Ventures are also able to gather ideas through group brainstorming to help them address specific questions or problems within the business organization. \nThese workshops are free and open to all who are willing to bring their ideas\, experience\, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that social innovators aim to address. \nIf you are unable to attend the above event but would like more information on Spark\, please register for our mailing list. \nFor more information\, or if you would like to suggest a future Spark workshop\, please contact socialenterprise@gsb.columbia.edu. \nThis workshop is supported by the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship\, and the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/spark-workshop-helping-good-people-good-people/
CATEGORIES:Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS
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