We were so excited to see Francesca Jones ’12, Chief Marketing Officer of Greenway Grameen, on the Wesconnect page discussing her work at the Unreasonable Institute: Read the full Wesconnect blog post here.
Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship
The Social Entrepreneurship Corps
In browsing the Ashoka U newsletter, we came across some fantastic opportunities for students, including the Social Entrepreneurship Corps. While this program is fee-based, remember that the PCSE offers grant opportunities to subsidize such opportunities. Check out the Patricelli Enrichment Grant and the Wesleyan Summer Experience Grant‘ to help finance what may prove to be…
Upcoming Wesleyan Career Center Deadlines
Use this last week of winter break to finish some applications! Here is a sampling of some of the opportunities with upcoming deadlines from the Wesleyan Career Center: Policy Fellow, Connecticut Voices for Children: Connecticut Voices for Children is seeking a well-qualified and enthusiastic person to fill a full-time two-year policy fellowship. This is a policy position…
The Risks and Rewards of K-12 Educational Entrepreneurism (2/6 at 7 p.m.)
The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship present The Risks and Rewards of K-12 Educational Entrepreneurism Thursday, February 6 7-8:30 p.m. Allbritton 311 Presented by: Dr. Jack Leonard, Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership in Education, University of Massachusetts Boston America has a long tradition of entrepreneurism, which…
reSET’s Impact Thinking
reSET’s Social Enterprise Design Lab continues with a new topic for discussion; Impact Thinking. Entrepreneurs and organizations working in the social sector face complex community challenges and share a commitment to evaluate and improve the efforts that we make to create change in the community. reSET’s newest Design Lab on Impact Thinking is designed to introduce a series of…
Seats Available in CSPL 345: Entrepreneurship in Education
Still haven’t finalized your spring semester schedule yet? Professor Leonard is offering a course that explores the role of entrepreneurship in education. From the WesMaps description: This course examines the historic roots of entrepreneurship in education, looking at both the business side of entrepreneurism and the more recent emergence of social entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the course…
Digital Wesleyan Startup 101 (free workshop series, Saturdays starting 2/15, apply now)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) is pleased to announce the first Digital Wesleyan Startup 101 workshop series, a free six-session course held on campus Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting February 15. The curriculum includes: Introduction to computer science and application design: It’s not actually that hard to build an app. We’ll show you…
The Coworking Movement (1/22 in New Haven)
Coworking is a growing movement that is becoming increasingly popular for social enterprises that have outgrown their founders’ living room floors but haven’t scaled to the point of needing (or being able to afford) a stand-alone office and infrastructure. For some Wesleyan alumni social entrepreneurs, the collaborative energy and pooled resources of coworking spaces are…
Winter Break Career Bootcamp: Interview Questions
There comes a moment in (most) interviews, when the tables turn on you and you are asked this anxiety-producing question: “What questions do you have for us?” This was always the part of interviews that threw me. I just spent a half-hour talking about myself and switching gears seemed difficult! So, more times than I…
Become a Member of FoodCorps! (3/30)
Are you a leader passionate about healthy food, farms and kids? Then we want you to be a FoodCorps Service Member! FoodCorps recruits talented leaders for a year of paid public service building healthy school food environments in limited-resource communities. WHAT YOU’LL DO FoodCorps service members implement a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids: TEACH children about what…