Our team was excited to support and attend the 2nd Indigenous Innovation Summit at the beginning of November. Here are some insights that have stuck with us.
Bow Valley College and Women In Need Society (WINS) have partnered to launch a new on-campus thrift store that combines affordability, sustainability, and hands-on learning. The initiative gives students access to low-cost essentials while creating real-world learning opportunities in social enterprise and community impact.
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We define social entrepreneurship as using business models (selling a good or service) to enhance social impact. This reflects most Canadian definitions.
Many see the social and the entrepreneurial as being in opposition, like two sides of a scale that needs to be balanced. Instead, we see the social and the entrepreneurial as partners in progress.
We support a social entrepreneurship movement that dares to ask, “How far could we go in solving the world’s problems, and even fulfilling our potential as human beings, if we fully harnessed the power of business models to enhance social impact?”
Our team was excited to support and attend the 2nd Indigenous Innovation Summit at the beginning of November. Here are some insights that have stuck with us.
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.
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.
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.