The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards annual seed grants to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. Each grantee reports back with blog posts and photos. Here’s the first report from the Wesleyan Doula Project, one of the three 2015 winners. You can read other grantee reports here. Winning the Patricelli…
Zoe Toulouse ’16 and Adriana Brau-Diaz ’16 were selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. With this grant, they attended a weekend-long birth doula training, which will allow them to work as doulas this summer and explore careers in women’s reproductive health down the road. You can read Zoe and Adriana’s reflection below,…
Wes alum Jeffrey H. Liss ‘86 wrote in with this great opportunity: At Ascena, our philanthropic vision is simple: empowering women and children to be their best. Across our communities, there are tremendous stories about individuals working tirelessly toward this goal. We’re hoping you know some of those heroes who would be able to take…
Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite For Sight, 11th Annual Conference Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Saturday, April 12 – Sunday, April 13, 2014 http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference “A Meeting of Minds”–CNN The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes…
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…
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…
