In this email, you will find: EVENTS- Launching a Social Venture Workshop, How to Fail Well, Duke Blueprint Conference, I&E Academy: Social Innovation, SBSI Conference, MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights, Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program, Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise, Active Citizens Conference, Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference, StartupConnect Networking Fair, Co-Lab Learn Tech Skills for the Tech World// OPPORTUNITIES- Voting Rights Data Institute Internship, Pathways of Change Internship, GlobalGiving Accelerator, SAF Summer Internship, UK Fulbright, Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship, Davis Projects for Peace Award, Passport Magazine is Taking Submissions, Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships, Apply for SOL Summer Grants, Democracy Summer, The GSL5 Summit is Coming, The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
EVENTS
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
How to Fail Well
Thursday, February 1, 7pm, Rubenstein Library 153
Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out, The Curse of the Good Girl, and Enough as She Is, and a leadership development specialist at Smith College, is coming to Duke to talk about failing well.
In this workshop, learn tools to take healthy risks, bounce back after a setback, and redefine your beliefs about success and failure.
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!
I&E Academy- What’s Your Problem? Identifying Needs & Defining Problems for Social Innovation
February 5th, 6:15-7:30 pm (rescheduled from 1/25)- Gross Hall 270
Facilitator: Matt Nash, Managing Director, Duke I&E Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs seeking to develop innovative, sustainable solutions in areas such as health, poverty, education, environmental sustainability, human rights, etc., often discover that these domains are full of “wicked problems”—seemingly unsolvable, intractable
challenges with multiple, often systemic causes, and interwoven, exacerbating effects on several stakeholder groups. In this session, we will discuss and apply analytical tools and methods of human-centered design for problem discovery and analysis to help
social entrepreneurs and the communities with whom they engage to diagnose and frame a problem with precision and clarity, and in such a way that the root causes of the problem, not just its symptoms, will be addressed. NOTE: Workshop will be preceded
by an info session on the Duke ChangeWorks Global Social Innovation Challenge at 6:00pm. Come learn how to win up to $50,000 for your idea to change the world!
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
MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights
Thursday, February 8
Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (101), West Duke Building, 4:00– 5:30 PM
the Kenan Institute for Ethics will host MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights- Reflect on human rights issues across time and place.
To RSVP for the event, email Deirdre White at deirdre.white@duke.edu by noon Feb 5th.
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
Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise
Speaker: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Thursday, February 15, 2018
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Perkins Library 217
Educating, Uniting, and Inspiring Active Citizens
February 17, 2018 Williamsburg, VA
Gathering 175+ undergraduates, The Active Citizens Conference is an engaging space to share experience and expertise in community. This year we’re convening around the theme The Skills of Freedom.
Register by February 8th. Funding from DukeEngage is available for interested students.
Register
here.
Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference
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This conference will take place February 23rd-25th at Elon University and is open to students and educators from throughout the region. |
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.
Here are some of the 32 companies coming to the 5th Annual StartupConnect on Feb 20th. The event is 6-8pm at Gross Hall.
Listing of companies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R8ax7TQUeCG2w9df6v9VyeUSQ_lS-rzuJCLkBTzxkYc/edit
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128241254517547/
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
OPPORTUNITIES
Voting Rights Data Institute Internship
Applications are due January 31st.
The Voting Rights Data Institute is a 6-week summer program of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG), a Boston-based team of mathematicians and computer scientists working on U.S. redistricting. The dates of the program are
Monday June 4 – Friday July 13, 2018.
Apply
here!
Apply by February 1st
Pathways of Change is run through the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics for students interested in the areas of business and human rights/csr, women’s rights and environmental justice. Students
intern with organizations working for social change across these fields, and work together to explore the tradeoffs between different approaches towards social change. Students also participate in an interdisciplinary seminar in the Fall of 2018 on Theories
and Strategies of Social Change. Each internship comes with a $5,000 stipend.
Apply
here!
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.
SAF Summer Internship is now open!
Deadline for applications is February 3rd.
Spend your summer/ fall meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest, and produce the food we eat everyday! Through the Into the Fields Program, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) develops the leadership of college students and
recent graduates from diverse backgrounds, giving them the opportunity to work directly with farmworkers in the Carolinas.
Learn
more here!
Deadline: February 7
First years and sophomores, apply to attend a nearly fully-funded program on a variety of themes at schools across England, Scotland, Ireland! Flights, tuition, room, and board are included. The 10 institutes will cover different themes:
theater at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, climate change, technology and innovation, development and politics, the history of the slave trade in England, the history of conflict and relationships of Northern Ireland, medieval studies, and much more.
Learn
more here.
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
They are taking submissions for this semester's edition until February 12th at midnight!
Passport is Duke's premier travel magazine! Over 23 editions old, Passport is a semesterly publication that has always been created with care and passion. If you have travelled anywhere locally or overseas, hopped around a lot as a kid, or just have some thoughts on the travel and exploration, they'd love to hear from you! Submissions can be of any format (poetry, prose, photo essays) and generally of any length. They are also looking for people to fill other roles such as content editor, graphics editor, and publicity director, so reach out about that if you're interested! Please send in all submissions and/or questions topassportmag@gmail.com!
You can check out past editions here: https://issuu.com/passport
Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships
Deadline: February 18, noon
These 8-week, paid summer internships accepts 36 undergraduates with Pell Grants who are rising sophomores, juniors or seniors (in Fall 2017). Host non-profits offer skill-building opportunities in research, community outreach, public policy, communications, fundraising or social media. Experiences vary by organization. Connect with peers in the program and receive professional development throughout the summer. Students of color are encouraged to apply.
SOL Summer Grants are grant awards of $5000 for qualified undergraduates to design and conduct community-based research (CBR) projects collaboratively with partner organizations for 8-12 weeks during the summer of 2018. We are looking for
second or third year Duke undergraduates who have previously had an intensive, full-time, summer service experience through DukeEngage or another similar community-based volunteer opportunity offered by Duke University.
Apply
here!
Applications are due March 18th.
Democracy Summer is a life-changing, hands-on internship experience. Interns work for nine weeks during the summer as organizers in communities across the state. Right now, we're looking for interns who can spend the summer in Western NC,
Eastern NC, the Triad, and Charlotte area regions to empower local volunteers, advocate for policies that improve democracy, and help our state navigate North Carolina's power structure and political process during this important year of "justice elections."
Apply
here!
Held at University of Notre Dame April 15-17th
The Summit’s theme, Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning, aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and
secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens..
Learn
more here.
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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