In This Issue

• A Note from the Founder

• News/Student Spotlight

• Past Events/Dates

• Upcoming Events/Dates

• Internship Opportunities

• Contact Us

A Note from the Director

The following note was taken from Professor Dennis Shaughnessy's “Global Social Entrepreneurship” class to explain how social enterprises, and especially for profit social businesses, are often structured and financed.

Tra­di­tional busi­nesses find a path to finan­cial sus­tain­abil­ity by grow­ing their rev­enue, improv­ing their gross and oper­at­ing mar­gins, increas­ing their free cash flow, effi­ciently man­ag­ing both cap­i­tal expen­di­tures and work­ing cap­i­tal, and build­ing their asset base. Achiev­ing these finan­cial per­for­mance indi­ca­tors typ­i­cally result in easy access to financ­ing and higher stock prices. Read more here

• Last fall, fifteen SEI volunteers taught the BizKids program about social entrepreneurship and the basics of starting a business at Orchard Gardens K-8 in Roxbury through Boston organization Citizen Schools.

• New York Uni­ver­sity offers a graduate fellowship program through the Cather­ine B. Reynolds Foun­da­tion Pro­gram in Social Entre­pre­neur­ship.

• Several Northeastern students found rewarding co-ops at Root Cause, a research and consulting firm for nonprofits in Cambridge.

Past Events/Dates

February Lecture Series

Check out our recap of SEI's February Lecture Series Event featuring distinguished guest Professor Iqbal Quadir, the Founder and Director of MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Professor Quadir is also the founder of Grameenphone, which has paved the way for universal access to telephone service in Bangladesh.

Net Impact Networking Event with the Massachusetts Social Enterprise Alliance

Net Impact welcomed Anne Wunderli, Director of Social Enterprise of Pine Street Inn and Board Chair of the Social Enterprise Alliance, who gave members and in depth look at her work and provided insight on careers in the growing social enterprise sector.

Connect-123 International Scholarship Competition

Connect- 123 offers scholarships for a career-related international internship, covering airfare and housing to work in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dublin or Shanghai. The application deadline is March 31 and winners will be announced on April 15. For more details, click here

FACE AIDS Summer Internships

Applications due by February 29th. To apply, submit your resume and cover letter. The three internships are Campaigns Intern, Chapter Resource and Leadership Summit Intern, and Advocacy Intern

Interns work full-time in our national office in San Francisco, CA for eight or ten weeks. FACE AIDS is flexible with start and end dates, and offers a stipend of $2000 for eight weeks or $2500 for ten weeks.

Physicians for Haiti

Physicians for Haiti is offering two Volunteer Summer Intern Positions, a Medical Education Logistics Intern and an Outreach & Development Intern, to motivated individuals who are interested in global health and non-profit organization development. The positions are in Boston, from June to August for ten to fifteen hours per week. Applications are due March 11th.

Contact Us

For all inquires, please con­tact the Social Enter­prise Insti­tute at sei@neu.edu

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