On April 23, five notable social enterprises received monetary awards totaling $150,000 to bring their ideas to fruition. The competition, called Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation was hosted by Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and YouthBridge Community Foundation.
The five winners, selected from a group of 42 entrants, were:
Fathers Support Center Legal Clinic: awarded $30,000 to support certified, affordable, paralegal services to non-custodial fathers
Missouri Women in Trades: awarded $25,000 to promote personal and professional empowerment of women through careers in construction trades
Rupununi Learners: awarded $25,000 to promote literacy in a remote region of Guyana, South America by providing books to 10,000 students
The Exchange: awarded $35,000 support a proposed resale shop of the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition targeting teens and young adults
Urban Studio Café: received $30,000 to promote creative youth development
Contributor Profile: Erik
Erik is a perpetually curious social innovator. As a serial entrepreneur, Erik knows a thing or two about change. As a co-founder of SocialEarth, Erik hopes to channel his passion for social advocacy into an innovative venue of social awareness for others. Website: SocialEarth
Twitter: @erikeliason
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Hi,
It’s wonderful to see that the works of social entrepreneurs get more and more attentions and recognitions. I would definitely follow this event in the following years.
Julie
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Keep up the great work:)
Can we and http://www.WEBiversity.org work with you?
Just created facebook group's and was hoping you could link to it from
your great facebook site and/or your site/blog?
If poss thanks….
Can we give you a FREE book?
Come to http://www.TRUSTlibrary.org or make your own Trust Library and
we can supply the books for you to read and then give away to strangers!
Join the facebook group too
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34886708...
http://www.twitter.com/trustlibrary
Also watch & share the BEST Talks (including an AMAZING talk by J K
Rowling on the BENEFITS of failure and imagination) at
http://www.WEBiversity.org and join the WEBiversity fbook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=352077702670
http://www.twitter.com/webiversity
If you have broken books look up http://www.MUSTart.org to see how you
can use them to make your own art to give away. Fbook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=685233142...
http://www.twitter.com/mustart
Create your own self sustaining charity cafe http://www.FREEtraid.org
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FREE-Traid-Cafe/...
http://www.twitter.com/FREEtraid
These collaborative projects all use the http://www.Traidmark.org
business structure that uses donations and funds to create new
innovative projects.
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19887357352
If you have any suggestions please comment on the fbook groups:) Can we
collaborate with you to have fun and do good! Ed
http://www.twitter.com/Whymandesign
http://www.Whymandesign.com
Thanks so much
Ed