The Johnson School’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, together with the CRESP Center for Transformative Action and Entrepreneurship@Cornell, have launched a new initiative designed to help the Cornell community work together to address some of the world’s leading social and environmental challenges.
Called the Cornell Changemakers, Innovators and Problem Solvers Initiative, the effort grew out of Cornell’s participation last year in global social entrepreneur association Ashoka’s Changemakers Campus Project. Cornell was one of four universities selected to participate in the program, designed to help universities become incubators for social change.
“The environment here at Cornell is ripe for the Changemakers Initiative, which emphasizes leadership, engagement and transformation action,” Mark Milstein, director of Johnson’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, said in a statement. “Currently, there is a great deal of energy around sustainability, entrepreneurship and the impact that the university can have on national and global interests,” he continued.
In March, the group held a campus-wide Changemaker Forum to talk about social change and look for ways to drive social entrepreneurism at Cornell. One of the first projects to come out of the forum will be the creation of an audio narratives collection highlighting students and alumni who are creating positive change.
Meanwhile, Entrepreneurship@Cornell is compiling a map of social entrepreneurship resources, including courses, clubs and faculty across campus. This information and a brief report of Cornell’s progress with the Changemaker Campus Initiative will be posted on the Entrepreneurship@Cornell web portal by the beginning of the fall semester.
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