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! …
Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship 2021/2022 Year in Review
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…
2021/2022 Entrepreneurship Microgrant Fund Report
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…
Innovation Fund Report 2022: WESU Speaker Series
Wesleyan students from a range of majors and interests – all with shared interests in utilizing resources in innovative ways to positively impact the greater Middletown community – applied to the Student Innovation Fund. The fund provided up to $750 for projects that prioritized: Collaboration between student groups, faculty/staff, and/or community partners. Investigation of the impact of our…
Innovation Fund 2022: Traverse Square
Wesleyan students from a range of majors and interests – all with shared interests in utilizing resources in innovative ways to positively impact the greater Middletown community – applied to the Student Innovation Fund. The fund provided up to $750 for projects that prioritized: Collaboration between student groups, faculty/staff, and/or community partners. Investigation of the impact of our…
Innovation Fund 2022: Cardinal Kids
Wesleyan students from a range of majors and interests – all with shared interests in utilizing resources in innovative ways to positively impact the greater Middletown community – applied to the Student Innovation Fund. The fund provided up to $750 for projects that prioritized: Collaboration between student groups, faculty/staff, and/or community partners. Investigation of the impact of our…
Startup Incubator (CSPL2389) Demo Day
Re-Imagining Justice Partner Spotlight: New Britain Racial Justice Coalition
Featuring Wesleyan alumna and co-founder Alicia Strong ’18, find out about the work the New Britain Racial Justice Coalition is doing with incarcerated folks and New Britain residents affected by mass incarceration. The NBRJC seeks to empower people in the New Britain area to challenge racism through political education, coalition-building, electoral engagement, policy advocacy, mutual…
Re-Imagining Justice Partner Spotlight: Connecticut Public Defenders
The Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services zealously promotes and protects the rights, liberty, and dignity of all clients. Join us in a discussion about fostering trust and ensuring equity in public representation amid the negative public perceptions/experiences that have led to the moniker “Public Pretender”. April 26, 4:30 pm Zoom link: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/98114458278