SII: What's Up

Come listen to social entrepreneur, David Flink, speak about the key strategies to sustaining a non-profit organization. In his lecture he will share how he built the national non-profit, Project Eye-To-Eye, from a student run initiative in the Sweare Center to a program that now runs at 26 chapters in 14 states across the U.S. Project Eye-To-Eye is a national mentoring program for students with learning disabilities and in his talk he will discuss his story as well as the 5 key elements to making a program last the test of time, Planning, Partnerships, Passion, Patience, and Progress. If you can't make the event, there will be a live and recorded video posted on uStream.com. Expect a follow up email!

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Submit a business plan that will do something positive for a community, the country, or the world, that will also be profitable and sustainable. Three finalists will be flown to New York City to attend Global Entrepreneurship Week and present their plans to a panel of industry executives. The winner will receive 25 thousand dollars in cash to help his or her company start off on the right foot, and ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

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Run by Northwestern University's Center for Global Engagement and supported abroad by the Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Global Engagement Summer Institute program will bring together students from universities around the country to learn from and work with communities in India, Bolivia, and Uganda experiencing the problems of poverty and injustice. Going beyond traditional study abroad experiences, the program will place you in a team setting with a host nonprofit organization where you'll learn about international community development by developing and implementing a real project in areas from youth education to microfinance and beyond.

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We are looking for dedicated individuals with the practical skills, the creativity, the empathy and the leadership potential to affect change by leveraging market-based solutions to create social impact. Acumen Fund Fellows are drawn from a pool of talented, passionate people from all geographies, sectors, backgrounds and ethnicities.

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