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Duke launching first Social Impact Startup Weekend!
Submit Proposals for 2016-17
Big Ideas Contest!
Submit a Proposal for the Hult Prize @Duke University
Apply for Bass Connections
An Evening with Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America
Women in Social Entrepreneurship, A Panel of Perspectives
Submit your startup idea for the 18th Annual Duke Startup Challenge!
Duke launching first Social Impact Startup Weekend!
USAID Higher Education Solutions Network 2017 Student Summer Intern Program
Spring Service-learning Courses
R!C!A! Film Screening: The Look of Silence (2015)
Princeton in Africa
New Access to Alumni!
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Duke launching first Social Impact Startup Weekend!
December 2-4 at the Duke I&E Bullpen
All members of the Duke community are invited to join our first Social Impact Startup Weekend. This FREE event is a fast-paced, high-energy weekend designed to turn innovative ideas into real world solutions. In a sprint of creative inspiration, participants from across the Triangle will form diverse teams around winning ideas to collaboratively develop business proposals that tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues. At the weekend’s conclusion, a judging panel of local entrepreneurs and Duke leadership will award prizes to the strongest proposals.
Learn more and register now at www.socialimpactstartupweekend.com or by emailing tim.scales@duke.edu.
Sponsored by the Fuqua School of Business Net Impact Club with support from Duke I&E, GPSC, Fuqua EVCC, and Nicholas School Net Impact.
Submit Proposals for 2016-17
Big Ideas Contest!
Deadline: November 16th @12pm PT
Big Ideas is an innovation contest that provides funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students who have creative solutions to address important social challenges. Students receive a chance to win up to
$18,000, Extensive feedback from judges, 6-week mentorship period for finalist teams and more!
Learn More: http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/
Submit a Proposal for the Hult Prize @Duke University
Online Application Submission Deadline: November 12th
Do you have a brilliant idea to solve the refugee crisis? You could be the next $1.0 Million winner! It is with great pleasure that we invite you or someone you know to participate in the 8th annual Hult Prize! This year's President's Challenge will
tackle another global social challenge, as student teams of up to four people will come together from around the world to take on the global refugee crisis! The challenge specifically asks teams to build sustainable and scalable social enterprises to address
the refugee crisis, a new front in entrepreneurship. This theme was selected by President Bill Clinton at this year's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York.
Register Link: http://www.hultprizeat.com/duke
Apply for Bass Connections
Deadline: November 4
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Bass Connections provides both graduate and undergraduate students with greater exposure to inquiry across the disciplines, partnership with unlikely fellow thinkers, sustained mentorship in teams and the chance to experience the intersections of the academy
and the broader world.
Apply to join an existing team, or create an original application with classmates and faculty!
Learn More: https://bassconnections.duke.edu/content/about-bass-connections
An Evening with Wendy Kopp, CEO & Co-Founder of Teach for All, & Founder of Teach for America
How a Thesis Turned into a Global Social Enterprise
Tuesday, November 15th, Penn Paviliion
6:30pm-8:00pm
For More Information
Register at: wendykoppduke.eventbrite.com
Join Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative and Teach For America as we welcome Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, and Founder of Teach For America. Hear Wendy discuss a journey that began with her senior thesis and has since led to the creation of two world renowned service organizations. Q&A will directly follow.
Women in Social Entrepreneurship, A Panel of Perspectives
Wednesday, November 16 at 6pm
Learn more and register: SocEntWomen.eventbrite.com
Join Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (Duke I&E) and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) November 16th for Women in Social Entrepreneurship: A Panel of Perspectives. Bringing together leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit social impact space, we’ll look at their unique perspectives and expertise as women in building solutions to wide ranging social impact and sustainability issues, challenges they have faced in starting and scaling their social ventures, and lessons learned while on that scaling journey. Come be inspired on how you can bring the change you want to see in the world through the experiences of these four women social entrepreneurs. The panel discussion is open to all in the Triangle community.
Schedule of Events
6:00 - 7:00 Panelist Discussion
7:00 - 8:00 Open Q&A and Open Reception
Submit your startup idea for the 18th Annual Duke Startup Challenge!
Deadline is Oct. 30th, 11:59 pm
Got an idea for a startup? Submit an idea summary online at http://duke2017.startupcompete.co/ to enter the 2016-2017 Duke Startup Challenge! The Duke Startup Challenge, founded in 1999, is desi gned to help Duke's entrepreneurship community flourish, with a year long entrepreneurship competition followed by an accelerator program. The Grand Prize is $50,000! Other prizes include the $20,000 Borchardt Prize for the best undergraduate team, the $10,000 Clean Energy Prize, the $10,000 Biomedical Engineering Prize, and more! Check out www.dukestartupchallenge.org to learn more!
USAID Higher Education Solutions Network 2017 Student Summer Intern Program
Application Deadline information:
November 3rd 12pm: Letter of Approval request submission (see below)
November 6th 11:55pm: Application submission. Application form here.
For all information: http://tinyurl.com/DukeUSAID2017
Each year the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) provides the opportunity for HESN Lab-affiliated students (including Duke University through the SEAD Program) the opportunity to bring their talents to various programs at USAID. Since the beginning of the HESN internship program, Duke University has sent 14 interns to USAID. See the 2015 cohort here. See the 2016 cohort here.
This summer, USAID has released 32 HESN internships, the largest number yet! Internships encompass a wide range of topics including global health, public policy, education, communications, and data analysis! Position descriptions here: http://tinyurl.com/USAIDinternships2017
To get a feel of for previous Duke HESN interns and their experience, check out some of their blogs about their internships:
• Kaylan Christofferson: Interned with the Global Partnerships Team at the Global Development Lab
• Courtney Cobb: Interned with Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact
• Divya Giyanani: Interned with the Global Development Lab
• Vinesh Kapil: Interned with Saving Lives at Birth
Questions?
If applicants have questions or concerns, please email Kimberly.langsam@duke.edu or hesn.internship@usaid.gov and use the subject line “HSIP LastName…” To learn about other USAID internships outside of the HESN program, see: http://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/careers/student-internships. For USAID Global Health Fellows Program Internships, see http://www.ghfp.net/internships/.
Spring Service-learning Courses
Book-bagging started! Do you want to learn the skills that you can help our local community out? Check the service-learning classes for 2017 Spring! Community-based learning includes a variety of interactions in the community but does not offer the sustained service component like that included in the service-learning courses. Many of these are part of our Community Based Language Initiative (CBLI).
Link to the course listed for 2017 Spring semester: http://servicelearning.duke.edu/courses/spring-2017
Film Screening of “She Started it”
Tuesday, November 1
She Started It is a full-length documentary film that follows the journey of 5 female tech entrepreneurs as they work through the process of starting their own companies. Duke is one of the first places that is screening the film - along with Harvard, MIT, Rice, and Indiana University. Join Duke I&E for a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A with one of the film's directors, Nora Poggi. Light refreshments will be provided. Need a ride to The Bullpen? Use our Uber Code: SHESTARTEDITEVENT.
R!C!A! Film Screening: The Look of Silence (2015)
October 27 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Interested in international human rights and taking social responsibilities to end the silence? Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the
identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts
the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
Learn More: http://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/event-detail/rca-film-screening-the-look-of-silence-2015/
Princeton in Africa
Deadline: Sunday, October 30 @ 11:59PM
Online webinar Info Session: Thursday, October 13th at 6PM EDT (Register required)
Princeton in Africa (PiAf) is a non-profit organization that offers yearlong post-graduate fellowship opportunities with a variety of organizations working across the African continent. PiAf Fellows work in service-oriented positions in many different sectors,
including international humanitarian aid, public & community health, business & economic development, agricultural development, and education & youth capacity building.
Graduating seniors and young alumni from any college or university accredited in the United States are eligible to apply.
Apply Link:
http://www.princetoninafrica.org/applicants/for-our-applicants./
Learn More:
https://sanford.duke.edu/policy-connect/events/world-today-diplomacy-enough
Webinar Register: https://piafalumni.clickmeeting.com/883236439/ended
New Access to Alumni!
Did you hear!? Students can now search for and contact alumni using the new Duke Alumni site (alumni.duke.edu). With this advance, students in any Duke school, program or unit can now enjoy unprecedented access to alumni around the world. Students will be able to use the site’s faceted search to reach out to alumni who can help them expand their knowledge, explore career options, introduce them to contacts, and even help identify job and internship opportunities.
As a reminder:
· You can find alumni.duke.edu marketing resources, including a document outlining talking points and an FAQ for student access, in our Network Marketing Toolkit on Box. Please think about any websites or collateral materials that will need to be updated to include this new resource.
· A link to the “explainer video” for student network access is here. Please feel free to use and forward.
· A link to the staff access policy and the form to request staff access is here.
· To report technical issues (for yourself and students), email help@daa.duke.edu.
· To report abuse/misuse of the network, please use this form.