Jan
29
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Four
January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Wow! Our class today was absolutely AMAZING. We had a guest speaker by the name of Kevin Jones from Good Capital and he was absolutely fantastic. Before I get ahead of myself I should say that Sophia (the class co-leader) also gave an amazing presentation about her experience and research about philanthropic foundations and non-profits. There is a lot of information from this class so I’ll focus mostly on Kevin Jones and talk about Sophia’s presentation in a later post.
Jan
22
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Three
January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, is playing an extremely prominent role in our class thus far. Not only are we researching his organization and those organizations affiliated with his, but we are also researching his beliefs and thoughts on social entrepreneurship. In fact, I believe I could reasonably argue that he is either the most prominent individual in the realm of social entrepreneurship or definitely in the top five. Most of the class today revolved around the definition of social entrepreneurship, and Mr. Drayton came up multiple times in multiple contexts.
Jan
15
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Two
January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tonight’s class was interesting and a bit of a bonding experience. I have high expectations for this class, especially since we will be spending a week traveling around visiting different socially entrepreneurial organizations, and getting to know one another even better will be extremely helpful when we start helping those organizations with random tasks. Tonight’s class definitely lived up to that expectation, and here is a quick overview of what we accomplished.
Jan
8
Social-E ASB - Week 1
January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
So one of my best friends, Kalvin Wang, who is also a senior here at Stanford, is one of the people in charge of this program/class - Social Entrepreneurship Alternative Spring Break. The objective is for students to learn what social entrepreneurship is, what’s going on in the realm, what issues are being tackled, and [...]