Posts Tagged ‘social entrepreneurship’

Six finalists chosen for Central Ohio Social Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

The Metropreneur and Rotary District 6690 have teamed up to host the first-ever Central Ohio Social Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Six businesses have been named finalists: Billy Two Shoes; CivitasNow; Freedom a la Cart; Freshbox Catering; Fulcrum Creatives; and The Greener Grocer. The finalists...

May 17th, 2013 | Announcements | Read More

Seeking nominees for 2013 Social Entrepreneurship Award

Social Entrepreneurship is the identification of a social problem and the use of entrepreneurial principles and practices to create a social venture aimed at solving the problem. Social entrepreneurs are important to the community and to the world, as they work to achieve social change through non-traditional...

February 14th, 2013 | Announcements | Read More

APTE Summit 2013 takes place Saturday

The fifth annual Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit kicks off at 9 a.m. Saturday at Mershon Auditorium at The Ohio State University. The free, one-day event brings together students, academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community members interested in how business and innovation...

February 4th, 2013 | Upcoming Events | Read More

APTE Summit 2012 takes place next Saturday

The fourth annual Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit takes place April 21 at Mershon Auditorium at The Ohio State University. The APTE Summit is intended to educate, impassion and empower individuals to alleviate poverty through market-based solutions on a local and global scale. From...

April 13th, 2012 | Upcoming Events | Read More

Local Businesspeople to Discuss Social Entrepreneurship on Tuesday

Social entrepreneurship is an idea that has been getting a lot of press recently. When people talk about social entrepreneurship, they’re typically referring to enterprises that attempt to affect change by applying the principles of business and entrepreneurship to social problems. In the world...

February 18th, 2011 | Upcoming Events | Read More

At Work: Columbus Idea Foundry’s New Community Space

If you told Alex Bandar two years ago that the community resource he created −where anyone with a good idea could see it through− would expand into a 10,000-square-foot space, he would never have believed you. Bandar went to school in New York and earned a Bachelor of Science in materials science...

January 17th, 2011 | At Work | Read More