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Social Entrepreneurship with a Clear Vision

November 28, 2016 No Comments

NOTE: This article was originally published on Carleton Stories and has been cross-posted with permission.

Written by: Dan Rubinstein
Photos by: Chris Roussakis

Babur Jahid, a third-year Biology and Health Sciences student at Carleton, has a clear vision for the road ahead. After graduating, he plans to follow his passion for medicine to Harvard and complete the MD/MBA program. Then he’ll return to his native Afghanistan and work with the government to make health care more accessible.

Creating a Hive of Social Entrepreneurship in Montreal

November 23, 2016 No Comments

Since 2013, Montreal native Benjamin Prunty started working on the development of a student-run, healthy, and accessible café at Concordia University called the Hive Cafe Solidarity Cooperative.

Trailblazing through Social Entrepreneurship

November 15, 2016 No Comments

Justin Philmore Brown and Richard West are great examples of how Canadian students are creating social impact through community engagement, innovation, and a deep-seated ambition to make a difference.

Enabling Student Social Entrepreneurship in Canada & the UK

November 3, 2016 No Comments

A report by the British Council found that across 12 countries, 75% of the higher education institutions surveyed were involved in social enterprise. The strong placing of the UK (third at 89%) and Canada (5th at 85%), to say nothing of their rich historical links, suggested the two countries were ripe for collaboration and cross-pollination in this emerging field. The British Council seized that opportunity with its Students for Social Impact (SSIM) program.

OUT AND ABOUT (October/16)

November 2, 2016 No Comments

There are a growing number of events connected to social entrepreneurship. Many of them happen in our home city, demonstrating what an incredible hub of activity Calgary is. The Trico Foundation team is pleased to attend many of them and wish we could attend more.

Supporting the next generation of catalyzers—why UBC is taking on the Global Challenge

October 31, 2016 No Comments

NOTE: This article was originally published on the RECODE website and has been cross-posted with permission.

Written by: Susan Grossman
Director | Centre for Community Engaged Learning, The University of British Columbia

Calling all Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions: the Global Challenge is Coming to Canada. Register your school!

October 6, 2016 No Comments

The Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford; RECODE, an initiative of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation; and the Trico Charitable Foundation, are partnering to bring the Global Challenge to Canada. We’re inviting Canadian higher education institutions to run the Global Challenge at their school, with the support of tools provided by the Skoll Centre. The Global Challenge offers students and recent graduates the opportunity to learn more about the issues they care about and present their findings to the world – and win some awesome prizes!

OUT AND ABOUT (August & September/16)

October 4, 2016 No Comments

Student Helps Hamilton Warm Up for Winter

October 3, 2016 No Comments

When it comes to spotlighting how students are working to solve social problems, it is hard to find someone more dedicated than Megan MacLeod. Megan is a non-profit leader who has been working on clothing drives to serve her community since 2010.

Newfoundland Enactus Students Empowering Others to Start Sustainable Businesses

September 29, 2016 No Comments

Emily Bland and Neala Kielley are key members and alumni, respectively, of Enactus Memorial, a student-run organization based out of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Enactus Memorial starts projects that provide entrepreneurial solutions to global problems.

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