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SEPI Innovation Awards Celebration!
We hope to see you TOMORROW!
SEPI is honorably announcing the first SEPI Student Innovation Awards for the Bartelli Bike Rack, DISI, and Hult Global Challenge Pitch!
Do you know any of the folks below? If so, give them a big high five and join us tomorrow!
SEPI Innovation Awards Celebration!
Join SEPI, the Social Entrepreneurship and Policy Initiative’s outgoing student committee, tomorrow for the LDOC (Last day of classes) to celebrate!
Rubenstein Lawn
Wednesday April 17, 5:30-7pm
Lawn games, Food and Refreshments!
We’ll acknowledge these friends and colleagues for their entrepreneurial contributions that have raised the profile of social innovation at Sanford. Learn more about these awesome projects, and SEPI too!
Leadership Award:
Danny Heller, MPP & Jenn Shen, PhD, for
DISI, Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators
Risk-Takers Award:
Hult Global Challenge Pitch Competition Team—
Pankhuri Dutt, MIDP
Silvia Fontana, MIDP
Ana Lucia Garcia, MIDP
Aung Thant, MIDP
Hrachya Topalyan, MIDP
Scaling Innovation Award:
Jeff Bartelli, MPP, for the Rubenstein Bike Rack Initiative
Fill out a quick survey and win BIG!!
Dear SEPI followers:
We’re writing to ask for 6 minutes of your time to help with an important short survey about social entrepreneurship here on campus. Participants who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for a $100 Amazon Gift Card.
Survey link: https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dauWk6PkGvoBTOB
The objective of this Duke-wide survey is to gauge interests and demand for student resources across Duke, in an effort to provide more opportunities in education, career and extracurricular activities. With your input, we can help ensure that those resources meet the needs of Sanford School, too!
Information collected from the survey will help administration determine what resources are needed to support students interested in learning more about social entrepreneurship and in becoming a part of social impact work in the future. Thank you for your help with this important process!
Questions? Email Bridget Bailey. bridget.bailey@fuqua.duke.edu
Free Webinar: The Future of Social Impact Investment
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(Presented by Harvard Business Review in partnership with The Bridgespan Group, with support from Omidyar Network)
Foundations hold $700 billion in assets. Ten million people work for nonprofits in the United States. With resources like these, why do social entrepreneurs suffer from lack of funding? And why are we still facing intractable social problems?
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In this free HBR webinar, Cohen will discuss
Join us. Ask questions and learn more about how impact investing could help resolve some of our toughest social challenges.
This webinar is part of the HBR-Bridgespan Insight Center on Scaling Social Impact, a three-month blog series on propelling social innovation. To receive our upcoming compendium of the blogs, From Start-up to Scale: Conversations on Scaling Social Impact from the HBR-Bridgespan Insight Center, please click here.