Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab

04/19/2018

Deadline to apply for videographer and graphic design positions have been extended to April 27th! Learn more at: https://sei-lab.wustl.edu/join-us/

04/12/2018

"The course is about learning how to take an entrepreneurial perspective to bring new ideas to challenge nonprofits to be a little bit more business-like. I really like that because i think a lot of nonprofits could be more financially stable to be more successful."
Melanie Goldring (MSW-MSP '19)

Learn more about our graduate courses in Social Entrepreneurship and read the full interview with Melanie at: https://sei-lab.wustl.edu/2018/04/12/graduate-courses-an-entrepreneurial-perspective-in-social-work/

04/05/2018

Friend and collaborator of the SEI Lab, Paul Dinkins (WUSTL MBA 2018), is co-launching Wabbani, a social enterprise. Check out the Kickstarter for your chance to be a part of the story!

From their website:
"Wabbani LLC is a for-profit social enterprise that produces handmade, culturally-authentic home décor, personalizing IKEA products while fitting their exact specifications, and preserving cultures and habitats in marginalized communities... Our goal is to serve as a global platform connecting remote/rural artisans with customers everywhere."

Congratulations Paul and April! We're excited to see your impact flourish!

We preserve threatened cultures and habitats, serving as a global platform connecting remote/rural artisans with customers everywhere.

04/04/2018

Our interdisciplinary teams of graduate students are tackling racial inequity in infant mortality. Come listen to their final pitches this Friday (April 6th) from 9-11am in Goldberg Formal Lounge.

03/29/2018

Learn more about these 30 young Asian entrepreneurs creating social change in their communities:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ranawehbe/2018/03/26/30-under-30-asia-2018-the-social-entrepreneurs-bringing-positive-change-to-asia/

Be it poverty, lack of access to education, poor record of women's rights or environmental impact, these inspiring 30 Under 30 Asia list honorees are tackling big issues and finding innovative and sustainable solution to make a positive change in the region.

03/28/2018

Increased demand from institutional investors has led Partners Group, the second largest private equity fund by market capitalization, to launch a $1 billion global impact fund.

Read more:

Aim to invest in line with UN’s sustainable development goals

03/21/2018

Yesterday, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) released a roadmap for the future of impact investing. Learn more about the progress the industry has made and take action to reshape the financial market.

Reshaping financial markets to work for people and the planet.

03/20/2018

Social entrepreneurship is changing the way nonprofits get funded and bringing about systems change across various sectors. PlusAcumen offers free online courses for nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs. Check them out!

Nonprofit leaders share original ideas to generate funding through social enterprise & sustainable business models

03/12/2018

INTERNSHIPS in Social Enterprise!!
Visit https://seic.wustl.edu/programs/summer-intern/ to learn more.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 31, 2018
Contact Kalin Pearce with any questions regarding eligibility or the program.

03/09/2018

Browsed around today because who isn't always thinking about food? Found this internship, don't know any of the details but it looks pretty cool!
http://www.urbanharveststl.org/internship

03/09/2018

Our Idea Phase accelerator helps budding social entrepreneurs create a minimum viable prototype (MVP) to test their idea for a social enterprise.

https://seic.wustl.edu/programs/accelerator/

03/09/2018

We celebrated the opening of our lab space in Goldfarb 32 with breakfast followed by a talk by Rick Alexander.

Rick Alexander has practiced law for 26 years at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, including four years as managing partner. He remains counsel to the firm. During that time, he was selected as one of the ten most highly regarded corporate governance lawyers worldwide, as Delaware Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year, as Delaware Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year, and as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States.

In 2015, Rick became the Head of Legal Policy at B Corporation. In that position, Rick works with lawyers, companies, investors, legislators and regulators around the world, seeking to create sustainable corporate governance structures.

Rick has written three books, The Public Benefit Corporation Guidebook and The Delaware Corporation, and his third book, Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose, published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.