In April 2013, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded five seed grants to Wesleyan students embarking on high-impact projects around the globe. Each grant recipient is reporting back about his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s the second one from Faye Phillips ’13, who designed and implemented the Women and Girls Hygiene program for Maji Safi Group, which…
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Looking Ahead
Well, the end of our orientation series has come! We hope that you have enjoyed getting to know us, have a better understanding of what ENGAGE is, have learned how to connect with us during the year, and how we can support you in your academic and nonacademic ventures, and even after you leave Wesleyan.…
PCSE Internship Grants in Action: A note from Jackie Freed ’15
In March, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded internship grants to Wesleyan students planning to spend their summers pursuing experiences in diverse fields of social change. Each grant recipient was asked to report back on his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s one, a report from Jackie Freed ’15, a pre-med Psychology and Science in Society major who spent…
Enrichment Grant Report: Zach Burns ’14
Zach Burns ’14 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. This funding helped support his six-week fellowship volunteering with the MINDS Foundation in Gujarat, India. MINDS was founded by Raghu Appasani ’12 while he was an undergraduate at Wesleyan. Read Zach’s story below, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about…
PCSE Internship Grants in Action: A note from Jessica Gorak ’15
In March, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded internship grants to Wesleyan students planning to spend their summers pursuing experiences in diverse fields of social change. Each grant recipient was asked to report back on his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s one, a report from Jessica Gorak ’15, a Science in Society major who spent…
Post-Wes Journeys in (Social) Entrepreneurship – September 27 at noon
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Wesleyan Career Center present Post-Wes Journeys in (Social) Entrepreneurship Friday, September 27 12 noon Judd 116 Beezer Clarkson ’94, Kagiso Bond ’01, and Erica Gersowitz ’01 will speak about their lives after college. Like many Wesleyan alumni, parts of their work can be called “social entrepreneurship.” Beezer…
Life After the Bubble: Civic Engagement Beyond Wesleyan
I know it seems a little premature to start talking about life after Wesleyan before you have even moved in to your first dorm room. And in a way, you are completely right. But you know what they say about it being over before you know it? Ask absolutely any person who recently graduated. Heck,…
Outside the Classroom: Civic Engagement and Extra-Curriculars
So now that you have been welcomed and maybe even met me, I decided to get started by talking about civic engagement in the form you are already probably most familiar with: through extracurriculars. I don’t think I could have fully appreciated the difference between high school and college before starting my first year at Wesleyan.…
ENGAGE Your Portfolio!
I hope that by this point you are getting familiar with your custom portfolio! It took me about two years at Wesleyan to realize it, but your custom portfolio is a place where you can really tailor the information you receive to your interests. All portfolios have pre-set Wesleyan-affiliated blogs already loaded on to your…
Introductions
Hello everyone! If you are new to ENGAGE, or if you just haven’t been here since the end of last semester, you may have noticed that you do not know me. Though part of the allure of blogging can be anonymity, I don’t want to be the mysterious person behind the curtain. I want you…