Tag Archive for reSET

News from reSET, including their Impact Challenge (with intro from PCSE Director Makaela Kingsley)

Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship has many partners on campus, locally, and around the world. One of these partners is reSET, the “Social Enterprise Trust” located in Hartford. Their latest e-newsletter has several big announcement, so I’m pasting the full contents here on the ENGAGE blog.  I know that off-campus transportation is often the road block…

2015 reSET Impact Challege

reSET is a Hartford-based nonprofit organization working to “promote, preserve, and protect social enterprise as a viable concept and a business reality.” They aspire to make Connecticut – with the help of talented students like you – a hub for ventures that address our communities’ social and environmental needs. Applications are open now for the newly…

reSET Social Enterprise Awards Dinner (10/28)

reSET Invites You to the 2014 Social Enterprise Awards Superheroes of Social Enterprise October 28, 2014, 5:30 – 8:30 pm The Society Room, 31 Pratt Street, Hartford, CT Social Entrepreneurs… understand that change is driven by those who are affected most. They work to defeat injustice, save the environment, and right inequality. Through their work,…

Name the new co-working community in Hartford (and win a month of free office space)

In the latest newsletter from reSET (Connecticut’s Social Enterprise Trust), readers are invited to submit potential names for the new Incubator Workspace in the heart of Downtown Hartford. Ideas should be posted on the reSET Facebook by August 30, and the winner will receive will a one-month coworking pass. Criteria for the naming challenge: The name Incorporates…

Apply for reSET’s 2013 Social Enterprise Challenge

Call for Applictions: reSET’s 2013 Social Enterprise Challenge We are excited to announce the opening of applications for reSET’s 2013 Social Enterprise Challenge! Once again this year, reSET will recognize entrepreneurs launching or operating viable, sustainable, and socially responsible businesses that improve the community, create jobs, and demonstrate the possibilities created when both profit and purpose are pursued at the same time. Winners will receive…

reSET Social Enterprise Design Lab – Info Session Thursday 12-2 p.m. at PCSE

reSET is launching a Social Enterprise Design Lab, and they are looking for Wesleyan students to participate. Students with a business idea or a curiosity about entrepreneurship overall are encouraged to consider this. Participants will get training, networking, and other resources, including possible grant money. Ojala Naeem, Program Assistant at reSET, will be on campus this…