Dr. Kate Zhou, University of Hawaii, runs an organzation called Education Advancement Fund International (EAFI) that matches volunteer teachers of all ages with teaching opportunities of 2 weeks-1 year, particularly in underserved minority regions in southeastern China. Dr. Zhou is also looking for individuals with business experience to teach entrepreneurship and help devise business plans for empowering rural villages.

For more information, please see www.yifei.org.

Dr. Zhou can be contacted at:
Honolulu Main Office:
3356 Francis Street
Honolulu, HI 96815
USA
Tel: 808-7544652
fax: 808-9566877
email:katezhou[at]yifei[dot]org

We will  be having a meeting this week THURSDAY, 8PM, WILSON 104.

We will discuss:
-Harvard Business School’s social enterprise conference: getting money to subsidize the cost
-Working w/ local social enterprises, and potential opportunities
-Bringing Rhode Island entrepreneurs to Brown
-Job and internship opportunities

If you cannot make it, please e-mail brownsec@gmail.com if you’re interested in being involved in or attending:
-HBS Conference
-Local social entrepreneurship intiative
-Career Week
-Working with the Career Development Center
-Working with Alumni Relations
-Working with the Swearer Center
-Working with $$$
-Working with logistics
-any questions/concerns/comments/whatever

1. The Charles G. Koch Associate Program
2. JustMeans
3. StartingBloc summer fellowship in London

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The Charles G. Koch Associate Program
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 Koch Associate Program.

The Koch Associate Program is a year-long, paid program designed to develop promising leaders and entrepreneurs interested in liberty and a career in the non-profit arena. Associates range in experience level from recent graduates to those with up to a decade of work experience, and come from diverse fields and academic majors.

You can learn more about the program and the Koch Foundation at www.cgkfoundation.org.

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JustMeans Careers with Impact Fairs

Boston
February 8: JustMeans Careers with Impact Fair at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

New York City
February 25: Citizenship and Social Enterprise Expo presented in partnership with the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University

San Francisco
April 10: Clean Technology and Sustainability Career Fair and Expo at Stanford University

If you are interested in booking a table at any of these fairs for your organization, please contact kschneider@justmeans.com.

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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation–Summer Fellowship

As an emerging leader, we invite you to apply for the 2008 StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation Fellowship program, which will take place this Spring in New York and this Summer in London.StartingBloc (www.startingbloc.org) provides socially conscious undergraduate students and young professionals with the training, career opportunities, and networks necessary to drive social, economic, and environmental innovation around the world.

As a StartingBloc fellow you will attend conference sessions on corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development at our partner graduate schools including MIT Sloan, NYU Wagner, The Fletcher School, Columbia Business School, Yale School of Management, and London Business School. At these sessions you will work with MBA and graduate school professors, as well as executives at firms like Google, Echoing Green and City Year.

Apply now at http://www.startingbloc.org/fellowship.html

Career Fair
JustMeans and MIT Sloan NetImpact are hosting a Careers with Impact Fair at MIT on November 16 from 1-4pm. Come find out how to propel your career towards creating both social and financial value.
The fair will take place in the Ting Foyer of the Tang Center (Building E51) from 1-4pm.

The Fair will be a great opportunity for students and young professionals to meet organizations who are concerned with sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility.

Education Pioneers
Cone Inc.
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Andy Savitz, Author of The Triple Bottom Line
Ashoka
Accion
CommonGood Careers
New York University Wagner School of Public Service
Industrial Economics
Zipcar
KLD Analytics
City Year
Recycline
Citizen Schools
The Cadmus Group
NSTAR Gas & Electric

Fellowships
1. Each year, Echoing Green awards 20 two-year fellowships to entrepreneurs creating new social change organizations. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable organizations.
Application deadline: December 3, 2006
http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship

2. StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation
At the Institute, candidates learn industry best practices around corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Corporate innovators, social entrepreneurs, and academics discuss cutting edge strategies around implementing social and environmental change through enterprise.
Early application deadline: November 10, 2007
General application deadline: December 1st, 2007
http://www.startingbloc.org/applynow.htm

Internships
SVPRI: Social Venture Partners Rhode Island http://www.svpri.org/
The Steel Yard http://www.thesteelyard.org/