Seeds Seminar Presentation

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P r i n t e d ATL-AAA123-20071121- Faculty Summit on Social Innovation at Duke and UNC – Chapel Hill Document prepared by Seeds Date: Wednesday, November 28th

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I co-developed and presented this slideshow to administrators at UNC-Chapel Hill while serving as COO of SEEDS in the fall of 2007. It outlined the strategic goals of our student-led social entrepreneurship organization, and specified the ways in which we hoped to enlist help from UNC\'s administration.

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Faculty Summit on Social Innovation at Duke and UNC – Chapel Hill

Document prepared by Seeds

Date: Wednesday, November 28th

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How we got here…

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Student perspectives

Naman ShahWaterPlus

Lindsey WitmerCarolina Microfinance Initiative

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Duke

• Social entrepreneurship embodies a philosophy of “attending not only to [the] intellectual growth [of undergraduates] but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities"

• Social entrepreneurship represents a dynamic, growing arena in which to create “leaders in finance in business.”

• Social innovation offers a unique, inclusive method by which to “contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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• Social innovation is the embodiment of the ideal of pursuing “creative endeavors” to move from “free inquiry” to “personal responsibility.”

• Social enterprise is a characterized around the world by the creation of scalable, sustainable strategies to “improve the condition of human life through service.”

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMBODIES MANY OF OUR UNIVERSITIES’ CORE VALUES AND MISSIONS

“italics” = taken from university mission statement

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OUT OF A RANGE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED FOUR TOP PRIORITIES

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Impact on campus

Resources required

Faculty Social Impact Committee

Faculty Conversations Program

2-Part Social Venture Course

Starting Bloc Southern Institute

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Thesis Advisory Committee

Interdisciplinary Innovations Course

Social Innovations in NC Course

Intro to Social Innovation Course

Social Entrepreneurship Certificate

Office Space

University Funding of student enterprises

Student Legal Services/Support

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Social Entrepreneur in Residence

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Devoted social entrepreneur in residence, at both Duke and UNC

Point-person to provide contacts and networking to establish mentor-student relationships

Single position devoted to teaching and fostering student ventures

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE1

Need Solution Outcomes

Long-term consistency and stability for cultivating culture of social entrepreneurship

Facilitate relationships across departments and universities, creating a support pool for fostering social entrepreneurs

Leader to provide oversight for culture and community of social entrepreneurship

Greater connectivity between campuses through establishing contacts and fostering student organizations

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Few academic courses on social innovation topics

Limited student exposure to real-life social enterprises

Limited university support and academic credit for work to launch social ventures

Academic course on “Principles and Practices of Social Enterprise”

Summer collaboration with DukeEngage to link students with regional social enterprises

Fall course to help students design and launch social ventures, follow on incubation program by Seeds

A TWO-PART VENTURE COURSE WILL GUIDE STUDENTS FROM THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

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Doubling of student spaces in SI courses by 2010

Sustained placement of students in at least 10 local social enterprises

More sustainable, successful social enterprises

Need Solution Outcomes

Source: Student survey, Seeds team analysis

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Socially engaged faculty profiles in online database

Faculty and graduate students post requests for undergraduate involvement online

SI faculty steering committee

Few student-faculty mentorships and collaborations on social innovation

Lack of university-wide strategic direction on SI initiatives

A FACULTY SOCIAL IMPACT GROUP CAN STREAMLINE MENTORING AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS

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Need Solution Outcomes

Formal University position on social innovation

Consistent point of reference to raise strategic concerns

Greater number of long-term, personal relationships between faculty and students

Expansion of and increased impact from collaborative social enterprises

No single place to address all faculty social innovators

Quarterly steering meetings

Annual faculty group meetings

Greater connectivity between faculty social innovators

Greater cross-departmental collaboration on social initiatives

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Students want more informal interactions with professors.

Difficult to approach faculty when not enrolled in their class.

Students need professors’ support and guidance on social innovations.

A faculty meals program would pay for student-faculty meals a la the Duke Conversations program.

The program would create a structured, albeit informal, means to engage faculty in intellectual dialogue.

Students build ties to faculty, with potential for guidance, advising, and mentoring, and collaboration.

FACULTY CONVERSATIONS CREATES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FACULTY AND STUDENTS

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Greater number of long-term, personal relationships between faculty and students

Heightened student understanding of how to apply academic learnings to real-life endeavours

More successful social enterprises

Need Solution Outcomes

Source: Student survey, Seeds team analysis

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STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE

•$120,000 in institute costs (~$1,000 per student), split between fees, national fundraising, host institution fundraising•Forty-hour intensive curriculum supplemented by independent team projects•Programs run either over the course of three months or in a four-day intensive format

THE STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE CAN REINFORCE DUKE AND CAROLINA’S REGIONAL SOCIAL INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

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Little sense of a broader social entrepreneur community

Social entrepreneurs have few facilities on campus for best practice sharing

Little sense of job opportunities in social innovation

Provide young leaders the skills and relationships for social entrepreneurship development.

Introduce industry best practices around corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

Corporate innovators, social entrepreneurs, and academics discuss methods for implementing social change through enterprise.

More proposed and successful social enterprises

New innovation due to increased cross-pollination of ideas

Accelerated scaling of successful social enterprises to other campuses

Need Solution Outcomes

Source: StartingBloc, student survey, Seeds team analysis

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NEXT STEPS

1. Social Entrepreneur In Residence• Identify key leaders to own design and selection process• Raise funds and establish institutional support

2. Two-part Social Venturing Course• Discuss potential for expanding size and/or sections of PPS 144s -Chris Gergen, • Identify faculty interested in teaching social venturing course collaboratively or alone

3 . Faculty Social Impact Committee• Identify members of initial Social Impact Steering Committee• Design interface for faculty to join Social Impact Group electronically• Create social impact group profiles -MARCH 2008

4. Informal Faculty Meal Program• Investigate potential alterations/enhancements to Duke Conversations program• Identify potential funding sources at UNC

5. StartingBloc Southern Institute• Discuss potential sources of funding and resources SEEDS and SI steering

committee, time: meet in january• Identify a faculty owner on each campus

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APPENDIX – IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINES

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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR FACULTY SOCIAL IMPACT GROUP

Construct Seeds website with unique user profiles

Compile list of socially-engaged faculty

Create faculty profiles on website

Convene faculty steering committee

Publicize SI faculty group profiles(June)

Faculty post current SI projects (August)

SI Faculty Group holds first annual meeting (September)

Steering Committee meets to discuss strategic direction and spring performance(December)

Increased student-faculty interaction on SI topics

Students involved in faculty projects

Steering Committee meets again (April)

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Feb 2008 March 2008 Summer 2008 Fall 2008 Ongoing

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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR STARTINGBLOC SOUTHERN INSTITUTE

Spring 2008

Investigate funding sources

Compile list of interested faculty

Identify faculty owner at each campus

Work with Fuqua officials to set date and place of 2008 conference

Summer 2008 Fall 2008

Solidify funding sources

Create faculty committees for admission and programming

Work with StartingBloc to create online application

Publicize institute to students at southern universities

Begin accepting applications by late September

Host StartingBloc in December

Spring 2009

Debrief from conference. Identify potential improvements.

Investigate sustainable funding sources

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Construct Scale

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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR TWO-PART VENTURE COURSE3

New ELI program begins at Duke

Accreditation of course sought at UNC

ELI/DukeEngage summer internships

ELI business plan course

Identify professor or partnership for UNC venture series

ELI course continues at Duke

Launch of ELI incubator

First section of venture course at UNC

Student internships at NC social enterprises

Construct Scale

Spring 2008 Summ./Fall ‘08 Spring 2009 Summer 2009

“Launching your social venture” course at Duke and UNC

Fall 2009

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PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR FACULTY CONVERSATIONS

Identify faculty or administrator owner(s) at each campus

Collaboratively investigate funding sources

Find partnering restaurants and coffee shops

Summer 2008 Fall 2008

Create online website.

Craft a student application and review process

Roll-out pilot of undergraduate program

Begin accepting applications in early September.

Spring 2009

Use feedback from participants to identify improvements.

Investigate sustainable funding sources

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Demonstrated Demand and Need for SE at Duke

Current Demands

Public Policy 144, Enterprising Leadership

On average, twice the number of students apply for the class as there are spots available. Four times as many express interest before the interview and application process.

Barry Myers, Director Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization

“Demand for opportunities which help students set a vision far exceeds both our curricular and co-curricular abilities. We have a dozen programs that could be put into place with more teaching/mentorship ability.”

Students Interested in Service but Unaware of SE

450 students have met with Duke Engage.

SE offerings through Duke Engage are currently limited but Director Eric Mlyn has expressed that Duke Engage wants to support students interested in SE and will be building programs around it

Future Needs

Importance of SE to a Duke Liberal Arts Education

Increasing resources for SE is consonant with Duke's mission of cultivating students' development as adults who are capable of practically leading their communities in an ethical manner.

Duke produces leaders in finance in business. SE training would help them to be more humane and ethically responsible businessmen and women. SE fosters interdisciplinarity, promotes leadership and brings knowledge to the service of society