The Brown Social Enterprise Club is holding a mixer event with Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship and the Engineering departments. We’re planning on having both faculty, social entrepreneur experts, and students at this function to just allow people of all different disciplines to interact and exchange ideas and thoughts.

Monday, April 7
6-8pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, Pembroke Campus

A taste of who’s to come:
Dean Gregory Crawford of Engineering
Dr. Maria Carkovic, Head of COE
Professor Barrett Hazeltine, Engineering

AND FREE FOOD! Mmm

Spend an afternoon with Paul Polack, Founder of International Development Enterprises and Expert on Sustainable Economic Development

Thursday, April 3 (TOMORROW)
4:00PM
Barus and Holly room 751

Paul is the founder of IDE (International Development Enterprises) and an expert on sustainable economic development. In his new book, Out of Poverty – What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, this impassioned and iconoclastic author, entrepreneur, inventor and self-identified “troublemaker,” tells why mainstream poverty eradication programs have fallen so sadly short and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has already succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.

“If we learn to listen to poor people, understand the
specific contexts in which they live and operate, and
find ways to harness their entrepreneurial energy
to increase their income, I have no doubt that at
least 500 million families now surviving on less than
a dollar a day will find practical ways to end their
poverty within one generation.”
PAUL POLAK, OUT OF POVERTY

Sponsored by the Division of Engineering, Program in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship and the Swearer Center for Public Service

David Brooks wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times that discusses what social entrepreneurs do. Check it out!We’re super happy that social entrepreneurship is making such big headlines lately! 

We are planning an awesome get together for Brown students and faculty on  Monday, April 7 (food and great company included). Would you like to help us plan it? E-mail us at brownsec@gmail.com.