Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 PCSE New Venture Awards (formerly Seed Grants). These student-led social ventures will each receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds as well as training, advising, mentoring, incubator workspace, and other resources from the Patricelli Center. Recipients were selected from a pool…
Latest News The Allbritton Center Welcomes 3 New Faculty/Staff Members: Ahmed Badr: Interim Director for the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy Briana Bellinger-Dawson: Coordinator of Community Participation at the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships Jacqueline Rabe Thomas: Koepell Journalism Fellow The Patricelli Center New Venture Awards (NVA), formerly…
The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life is excited to welcome Ahmed M. Badr ’20 as the Interim Director for the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy! Ahmed is an Iraqi-American author, poet, and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of creativity, climate action, displacement,…
Every year, student leaders from around the world are awarded $10,000 grants to implement a “Project for Peace” over summer break. The program, which was established by international philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis in 2007, is designed to encourage young adults to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Along the…
Hi! I am excited to join the Allbritton Center as the new Civic Engagement Fellow! I graduated last spring and I triple majored in Education, Psychology, and American Studies. My biggest passion was working with the Traverse Square community. The children and families who I connected with taught me so much about what it really…
Each month, I send an email to a group of Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship alumni leaders. I have decided to archive all those emails here for anyone who wants to see them. If you’d like to be on my email list too, just send me a note and I’ll be glad to add you! …
A MESSAGE FROM THE PATRICELLI CENTER DIRECTOR As I write this, I am sitting in my office on the ground floor of Allbritton Hall, where the WesStation mailroom was during my undergrad days in the mid-1990s and where the Patricelli Center opened in November 2011. Through my window I see the PAC renovation underway, and…
As a scholar of entrepreneurship, twentieth century French economist Joseph Schumpeter recognized what he called the “perennial gale of creative destruction.” To be an entrepreneur is to be a creator – a maker, an innovator, someone who sees the world as it currently exists and conjures up something new. Artists, activists, and instigators are all…
Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 PCSE Seed Grant. These student-led social ventures will each receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds as well as training, advising, mentoring, incubator workspace, and other resources from the Patricelli Center. Recipients were selected from a pool of finalists who submitted written…
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 PCSE Seed Grants. Finalists will pitch in a public event via Zoom on Friday, February 25, at noon Eastern Time. [RSVP here] These $5,000 awards are intended to fund the launch or early stage growth of a social enterprise, project, program,…
