Last spring, Francesca Moree ’14 was selected for an IDEX Fellowship working with VOICE 4 Girls in Hyderabad, India. VOICE’s mission is to enable marginalized adolescent girls in India to take charge of their futures by imparting critical knowledge, spoken English, and life skills through activity-based camps and mentorship programs. IDEX Fellows are required to…
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LEAP Skills Academy Fellowship
Attention students and young alumni: We received this email at the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) and wanted to pass it along to those of you who might be interested in working with this organization, LEAP Skills Academy, for a year or semester. We’re not aware of any Wesleyan-LEAP connections so unfortunately we can’t offer any…
Design and Communications Internship with Essmart (3/30)
We were recently contacted by Francesca Jones ’12 about an internship with Essmart, a marketplace for life-improving, essential technologies in local retail shops. This unpaid internship would start as soon as possible and has the potential to transition to a paid position. Read more about this opportunity below and apply today! Essmart Description Essmart bridges the…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: A Note from Shyam Desai ’15
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 has been reporting on his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s the second report from Shyam Desai ’15. His first is here. ****************************************** After a long planning period, I was successfully able to…
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…
Patricelli Center SOCAP13 scholarships announced
In July, Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship announced that it would award two tickets to the Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) to young alumni with an interest in how money can be leveraged to create social change. It was no surprise that those who applied were talented, motivated social changemakers working in a variety…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: A Note from Shyam Desai ’15
My flight is finally booked; I’ll be going to The MINDS Foundation’s site at Sumandeep Vidyapeeth (medical school) in Vadodara, Gujarat, India in August! With the help of The MINDS Foundation Program Staff, Lennox Byer ’12 & Mehul Solanki & Raghu Appasani ’12, I have been able to pinpoint a couple of tasks for my…