Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 PCSE Seed Grant Competition — Kindergarten Kickstart, TRAP House, and Walking Elephants Home. These Wesleyan-connected social ventures will each receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds as well as training, advising, mentoring, incubator workspace, and other resources through the Patricelli Center. One of the other six…
2016 PCSE Seed Grant Finalists Announced (public pitches 2/26 at noon)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2016 PCSE Seed Grant Competition. These $5,000 awards are intended to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. Past grantees used this seed funding to build an online employment platform in Africa,…
Discovering the International Need for Human Centered Design and Social Entrepreneurs: Morocco (by Josh Su ’17)
Josh Su ’17, a PCSE Peer Advisor, studied abroad during fall semester and sent us this reflection: I had begun my study abroad program to find solutions (economic, social, and political) for the impacts of climate change. However, even after a month in Vietnam, I had only been troubled with more issues and the hidden dynamics…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: Report #3 from Assk
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards annual seed grants to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. Each grantee reports back with blog posts and photos. Here’s the second report from Rachel Verner ’15, founder of Assk, a company that strives to normalize sexual consent through apparel and education, thereby preventing…
Free Tickets Available for Conference on “doing well by doing good” (5/31-6/2, Chicago)
Gain insight into doing well by doing good — become a staff volunteer at the Cause Marketing Forum conference on June 1-2 in Chicago! Wesleyan alumnus David Hessekiel ’82 is Founder and President of Cause Marketing Forum and co-author of Good Works! Marketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World … and the Bottom Line. Cause Marketing Forum is…
$10k Davis Projects for Peace and $5k PCSE Seed Grant (info sessions 12/15-12/17, applications due 1/24)
Are you a Wesleyan student? Do you care about social justice, human rights, environmental sustainability, education, healthcare, international development, poverty alleviation, or another local or global problem? If so, you should consider applying for a Davis Projects for Peace grant or a Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Seed Grant. What kinds of projects are eligible? The Davis grant…
I Changed My Mind About Entrepreneurship
As director of Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, I work to support students who want to tackle the world’s pressing problems with innovative, disruptive, system-changing, scalable, sustainable solutions. In other words: to support entrepreneurs. Well, I have a confession. For a long time, I believed that most mission-driven students should not, in fact,…
Attention Bay Area Alumni: free tickets to the Social Innovation Summit (November 17-18 in Redwood City)
Wesleyan alumna and Patricelli Center board co-chair Lara Galinsky ’96 wrote to ENGAGE with this offer, asking us to share it with fellow grads in the Bay Area. Lara says that she has attended in the past and found this conference useful. And even better, we see Sid Espinosa ’94 on the confirmed speakers list…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: Report #2 from Assk
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards annual seed grants to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. Each grantee reports back with blog posts and photos. Here’s the second report from Rachel Verner ’15, founder of Assk, a company that strives to normalize sexual consent through apparel and education, thereby preventing…
Introducing the 2015-2016 PCSE Peer Advisors
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) supports students and alumni interested in creating and sustaining programs, businesses, and organizations that advance the public good. We believe that Wesleyan graduates are practical idealists uniquely equipped to tackle the world’s pressing problems, and we support their work through our advising, grant, workshop, and board residency programs.…