In this email, you will find: EVENTS- Seminar on Faith & Activism, Delivering Capital & Changing Lives in India, Teaching for Equity, Launching a Social Venture Workshop, Duke Blueprint Conference, SBSI Conference 2018, Demo Day for Innovate Durham, StartupConnect Networking Fair, The Innovation Co-Lab Roots Program// OPPORTUNITIES- I&E Social Innovation & Policy Pathway, Learn about the 2018-2019 Bass Connections Projects, Archimedes Project’s Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellowship, Venture for America Fellowship 2018, GlobalGiving Accelerator, Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship, Davis Projects for Peace Award, The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
EVENTS
Seminar on Faith & Activism
On January 27, join Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for a Mobile Course in Public Theology and Activism, co-sponsored by Duke Divinity School. The two Divinity School alumni will lead the afternoon seminar regarding a “freedom Movement framework” for understanding faith in American public life.
Delivering Capital & Changing Lives in India: Q&A with Eric Savage of Unitus Capital
Monday, January 29th from 11:30am-12:20pm
Esbenshade Meeting Room at the Fuqua School of Business
Join CASE i3 for a moderated Q&A with Eric Savage, Co-Founder and CEO of Unitus Capital. Unitus Capital is the biggest and most successful impact investment banking firm in India. Eric has incredible insight due to his vast network of impact investing, VC, corporate, and PE connections in the growing market for impact investing in India. Eric is a Duke alumnus, CASE i3 advisory council member, and a huge fan of Duke Basketball!
CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark will kick off the conversation with Eric then turn it over to students - bring your questions about business in India, supporting a growing capital market, and the impact investing ecosystem.
RSVP by emailing carrie.gonnella@duke.edu
Teaching for Equity: Lessons Learned and Creating Classroom Change
January 30
Attend Teaching for Equity: Lessons Learned and Creating Classroom Change to hear a panel of faculty members who have participated in the “Teaching for Equity Fellows” Program share what they are learning about teaching for equity, how it is changing their teaching, and how the program might benefit you.
Launching a Social Venture Workshop with Alden Zecha
Wednesday, January 31st from 9am-12pm
Kirby Reading Room at Fuqua; RSVP here
What is the reality of launching a social venture – the conceptualization, business model design, common challenges, and success factors? Join CASE’s Executive in Residence, Sproxil® Co-Founder Alden Zecha, for an interactive pop-up workshop covering steps and tactics to build an impactful venture. All are encouraged to attend – whether you are a budding social entrepreneur with an idea to share or are just interested in learning more about the social venture creation process. We'll provide a light breakfast. Casual attire.
For registrants: If you have a venture idea or venture-in-progress, we would love to use it as an example for the small team work during the workshop. Please complete this brief survey by January 28th so we can include your venture! (Seeking multiple volunteers.)
More info at: Triangle Global Health Career Day
Duke Blueprint Conference
Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) invites you to participate in Duke Blueprint February 2-3 on Duke’s campus! Reserve your spot by applying at dukeblueprint.com.
Blueprint is a sustainable tech ideation conference: we bring together passionate students, visionary experts, and forward-thinking organizations to address critical environmental issues. Blueprint brings together people of varied backgrounds to address problems in a new way. Putting diverse perspectives in such proximity drives valuable insights, ideas, and awareness. This context leads to the most effective win-win solutions. Check out this video to see what Blueprint is all about:
Blueprint is hosted by Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) in partnership with numerous organizations including P&G, WWF, Microsoft, and National Geographic. The event will include opportunities to:
· Attend workshops on applying cutting-edge technologies in sustainable tech,
· Engage with experts from organizations including National Geographic, Procter & Gamble, WWF, Conservation X Labs, and more,
· Exercise and showcase your skills, using them to tackle wicked problems, and
· Join and participate in a community of people with a collective effort to change the world!
At Blueprint, participants work in teams, collaborate with experts, and innovate actionable blueprints for projects/technologies/apps that will reconcile the inevitability of human progress with the natural world.\
Sign up at dukeblueprint.com to complete the application and reserve your spot!
If you have any further questions, please direct them to joshua.furth@duke.edu. Thank you, we look forward to receiving your application, and hope to have you join us in February!
Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference 2018
February 7 from 9am-5pm in the Fuqua School of Business
Join us to discuss topics including: Blockchain, the future of food, diversity, the opioid epidemic, impact investing, AI, and more. Conference is free to Duke students. www.FuquaSBSI.com
Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program
Thursday, February 8, 5:30pm at the Hayti Heritage Center (flyer attached)
Learn how local startups are bringing new ideas into City Hall. Come celebrate the 2017 InnovateDurham cohort. The four 2017 cohort participants in the City of Durham’s Innovate Durham program will share presentations about their company and the work they did in partnership with City departments at the program’s first-ever Demo Day. The event is open to the public and will provide an opportunity for residents and other local startups interested in civic technology to see a model for government innovation in action. Refreshments will be served!
durhamnc.gov/3165/Innovate-Durham
Want to intern at a startup this summer? Come to the 5th annual StartupConnect Networking Fair!
February 20th, 6-8 pm, Gross Hall
Join us for 5th Annual Duke StartupConnect Networking Fair! Students from all schools at Duke University are welcome to visit with startup employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni. This is a great place to bring your questions about what it’s like to work at a startup, learn more about opportunities at startups, and find internship and career opportunities. No dress code required.
RSVP now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128241254517547??ti=ia
List of companies will be posted in future weeks.
The Innovation Co-Lab Roots Program- No Experience? No Problem. Learn Tech Skills for the Tech World
The Innovation Co-Lab Roots program a technology training workshop series. They offer a variety of training opportunities in a wide array of topics, and they just updated the spring semester schedule with all the exciting new classes for January. Classes are
free and open to any Duke students, faculty, or staff. Just register at
the links below. Remember if a class is full sign up for the waitlist, and stop by anyway in case someone didn't make it!
- Introduction to Connected Hardware - Jan 24th, 3 - 5pm
- Introduction to iOS - Jan 25th, 3 - 5pm
- WebDev Introduction to HTML and CSS - Jan 29th, 1 - 3pm
- Introduction to Linux - Jan 30th, 1 - 3pm, and Feb 1st, 1 - 3pm
- DTech Scholars: Design Thinking - Jan 31st, 1:30 - 3:30pm
OPPORTUNITIES
I&E Social Innovation & Policy Pathway
This story features I&E’s Social Innovation & Policy Pathway!. https://today.duke.edu/2018/01/students-tackle-world-challenges-through-social-innovation-policy-pathway
The whole series can be found here as they go up: https://today.duke.edu/node/128053
Learn about the 2018-2019 Bass Connections Projects
Attend the Bass Connections Fair on January 24 to talk with team leaders, advisors and staff about the new Bass Connections projects.
Archimedes Project’s Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellowship
Students and alumni are invited to apply for a 12-week research fellowship in one of 25 emerging or frontier markets to explore the water or sanitation ecosystem for social enterprise opportunities. $2,500-5,000 funding available. First-round application must be submitted by February 9th. Archimedes Project identifies and works with entrepreneurs to research, design, develop and launch game-changing social ventures focused on distributing clean water or sanitation solutions to the bottom of the pyramid around the world. Fellows are invited to take the first step towards an enterprise by delving deep into the ecosystem to understand both existing efforts and customer desires.
Archimedes Project is recruiting aspiring changemakers as summer 2018 Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellows. Fellows spend 12 weeks in their country of interest conducting human-centered research and working to lay the groundwork for a scalable water or sanitation enterprise. Archimedes Project believes that locally-driven social enterprise is the solution to the clean water and sanitation crisis and research is critical to understanding what has been tried and failed in the past. Fellows receive a travel and room and board stipend of $2,500-$5,000 and the guidance of the Archimedes Project team. For more information, and to apply, visit: archgrp.org/fellow
Questions? Contact:
Angela McIntosh
Director of Special Events, Archimedes Project
Venture for America Fellowship 2018
Apply by January 29
VFA is a two-year fellowship program for recent grads who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities. Fellows learn important startup skills at a five-week training camp, apply for jobs within a vetted company network, and work for two years as full-time, salaried employees in one of 18 cities. When fellows are ready to start a company, VFA has the resources to help make that dream a reality.
Venture
for America Fellowship 2018
GlobalGiving Accelerator
Apply by February 1
The GlobalGiving Accelerator is a virtual training program and crowdfunding campaign that will help you take your fundraising to the next level. Following an optional two-week training curriculum, you’ll be entered into an Accelerator campaign where you’ll raise at least $5,000 total from a minimum of 40 different donors in order to graduate and secure a permanent fundraising spot on the GlobalGiving platform.
Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship
Apply by February 11
Through an exciting 8-week program, Local Food Supply Chain Apprentices will have the opportunity to work with local food hubs, businesses and organizations and gain hands-on training related to local food systems and value chains work. The apprenticeship will be paid and some travel (outside of home to duty station) will be included.
Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship
Davis Projects for Peace Award
Apply by February 12
Projects for Peace is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools (and a few other institutions) to design grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each. Apply by February 12.
Davis Projects for Peace Award
The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
Apply by April 16
The Blossom Hill Foundation offers a one-year fellowship to social entrepreneurs who have developed an innovative approach, program, or product that positively impacts war-affected Middle Eastern communities, either in-country or displaced due to conflict. There are two tracks of funding: Emerging Leader Fellows, eligible for up to $10,000 a year; and Sustaining Impact Fellows, eligible for up to $50,000 a year.
The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
Katherine Black
Program Coordinator, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (I&E)
www.entrepreneurship.duke.edu | @dukesocent
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