Social Entrepreneurship Institute

Posted by on August 26, 2013

You and your students and colleagues may be interested in attending the Social Entrepreneurship Institute on Friday, December 6, 2013, at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.  Presented by Unite For Sight, the Social Entrepreneurship Institute provides mentoring, guidance, and successful strategies for participants to apply to their work in global health, social entrepreneurship, and international development.  In addition to unique interactive sessions by leaders in global health and social entrepreneurship, the Institute also includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner networking receptions with the speakers.

Space is limited, and early registration is encouraged. A very reduced early bird registration rate is also offered through the end of August.

The confirmed Social Entrepreneurship Institute speakers are:

• “Rethinking Social Entrepreneurism: Moving from Bland Rhetoric to Impact,” Ned Breslin, CEO, Water For People
• “Global Health 2.0: Creating Health Care Systems in the World’s Most Impossible Places,” Mark Arnoldy, Executive Director, Nyaya Health
• “Growing an NGO and Making Systemic Change,” Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University; Global Health Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
• Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO, Envirofit International
• “Launching a Tech Startup with a Social Mission,” Jen Chiou, Executive Director, Crisis Text Line
• Annie Duflo, Executive Director, Innovations for Poverty Action
• Debra Eschmeyer, Co-Founder and Vice President of External Affairs, FoodCorps
• “Tools and Strategies for Staying True to Mission,” Sophie Faris, Community Development, B Lab
• Will Harris, Designer, Design that Matters
• “Leveraging the Marketplace and a For-Profit Model to Maximize Impact,” Rodney North, The Answer Man – Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• Manoj Sinha, Husk Power Systems
• Salimah Walani, Director, Global Health Programs, March of Dimes
• Donya A. Williams, Director of Operations, City Health Works

Complete details and the Institute schedule can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/institute/