Social Enterprise

There is a new Social Venture Creation Course from the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. The new Social Venture Creation Course, in partnership with the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering, the School of Art & Design, and the William Davidson Institute, is an innovative, action-based learning laborat … Read more »

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I am posting a few thoughts on the SI Career Blog about my internship experience at the Columbia River Gorge Commission. I'll try to aggregate all of those posts into one post here at CiC when they are complete. Until then, you can find the posts there.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/110/next-good-money.html New Profit Make money. Change the world. Better yet, says Good Capital, do both. From: Issue 110 | November 2006 | Page 32 | By: Cheryl Dahle | Illustrations by: Anthony Freda Lee Zimmerman hoped to offer investors the best of both worlds: They could put money into a booming tourism business while providing job opportunities for inner-city youth--do well and do good. But his business, Evergreen Lodge, a mountain resort in Yosemite National Park staffed by urban teens, just confused potential investors, who were wary of mixing charity and investing.

From the course description: BIT 646 Social Enterprise 1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: F06(A) Course Prerequisites: No credit in BIT 645/STRATEGY 645 Cross-listed with: STRATEGY 646 Social Enterprise: Innovation in the Information Society --- Social Enterprise roughly means making the world better through the efforts of for-profits or non-profits and broadly covers problems in the areas of poverty, health, education, the environment, and other social issues, such as treating women and children better. We will pay significant attention to how companies working at the economic bottom of the pyramid in the developing world and the West can develop successful businesses, though we will focus on other opportunities as well. We will see how many innovations in this area embrace new business approaches supported by information and communication technology (ICT).