Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Enrichment Grant Report: Vanessa Chen ’16

Vanessa Chen ’16 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship for her trip to CGI U, an annual conference at which students, university representatives, topic experts, and celebrities come together to discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. You can read Vanessa’s story below, and visit the PCSE website to…

How to Write a Winning Business Plan and Do a Stellar Presentation (lunch and lecture by Rebecca Knight ’98, 4/20)

The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents HOW TO WRITE A WINNING BUSINESS PLAN & DO A STELLAR PRESENTATION A workshop and lunch with Rebecca Knight ’98, Freelance journalist, 2015 Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan, and Harvard Business Review columnist    Monday, April 2012-1 p.m.Usdan 108 Lunch will be provided. Please register here. Whether you are seeking funding…

Creating Equity in Housing

In the final event hosted by Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan this semester, Erin Boggs ’93 will visit campus to speak about her work with the Open Communities Alliance, a Connecticut-based civil rights organization. She also discuss how gentrification and the segregation of neighborhoods creates unequal opportunities in terms of education, health care, and job prospects, and how we as…

Startup Weekend Stamford

Try something new this weekend: build a business! Startup Weekend Stamford is calling all designers, coders, professionals, and students like yourself to team up for 54 hours of innovation madness. You can register individually or with a group, pitch an idea or join a team, and then work with your new collaborators and a fantastic…

WE ARE NOT WHO YOU THINK WE ARE: Storytellers, Creative Problem Solvers and Drivers of Innovation Through the Power of Design

Calling all student leaders, graphic designers, and design thinkers on campus… Kai Wes and the “Innovation Through Design Thinking” students are bringing J. Dontrese Brown – a motivational creative design professional and a former creative director – to impart the following skills and lessons (and more): Establish credibility with the organization’s key stakeholders as creative strategist within…

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…

Alumni in Education panel (4/29)

Professor Jack Dougherty invites interested students, faculty, and staff to attend the April 29 meeting of his class, Choice: A Case Study in Education and Entrepreneurship. During this session (7-8 p.m. in Allbritton 004), five Wesleyan alumni will speak in person or by video about their work as educators. You can see the full syllabus here. Excerpt…

BUKO Site Launch

2014 PCSE Seed Grant recipient Joaquin Benares ’15 brings “the internet in a box” to the Philippines with BUKO – Boundless Update Knowledge Offline. This low-cost electronic library stores files from the web for offline use, which allows teachers to access and organize high-quality educational materials for their curriculums, even when working in areas without…