Twice a month, we profile a young social entrepreneur in our community who answers 5 questions. If you know of someone who should be profiled, let us know!
Mike Edwards, Preparing the Trail
Mike Edwards is the Project Coordinator of Preparing the Trail, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making exercise fun and productive, anytime, anywhere, for anyone, [...]
Renjie Butalid is the Communications Coordinator at Social Innovation Generation at the University of Waterloo.
1) What are you working on and why does it matter?
I am currently working on a speaker series beginning May 5 in Waterloo, hosted by Social Innovation Generation at the University of Waterloo.
This speaker series will apply the ideas of social [...]
For many of us at YSEC, David Bornstein’s book, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, was one of our first introductions to social entrepreneurship.
As a result, we were thrilled to have David as the keynote speaker at our recent conference, re:Vision 2010. (For some great reflections on Bornstein’s [...]
Are you a student wanting to make positive change in your community? Are you unsure of how you’re going to attend class and manage an organisation? Take note:
Possibly because nothing teaches you about running an organization like actually running an organization. – Scott Warren, young leader
Read From Student to Leader: Taking the Leap and discover [...]
On Tuesday, December 8, 2009 a group of people learned about the ethical chocolate trade at ChocoSol and got to taste the delicious result of social entrepreneurship. Here’s a recap of some of our pictures.
Assaf…not so patiently waiting for the tasting session
Drool
Getting Busy in the Kitchen
Choco-Drink Time!
The Truth!
More pictures available on our Facebook page: [...]
Michael Sacco (ChocoSol) invites you to join an amazing exploration into community, social and eco-preneurship at ChocoSol’s Cacao Loft on Tues Dec 8th 6:30pm.
This will be a unique experience that challenges the way we view community and social entrepreneurship and you’ll never see or taste chocolate the same way again. Guaranteed.
Click here for more info [...]
Ketan Deshpande, a third year engineering student at a city college in India, has become the youngest Indian to join the ranks of the Paragon 100 [...]
Help support "Green it Up", an awesome initiative by Dom Kawa
The Aviva Community Fund is a three round process and YSEC is proud to announce that two members of the YSEC community have made it to round 2.
Dom Kawa’s Green It Up project’s mission is to transform every flat roof in the GTA into an ecologically-friendly [...]