On Friday, April 15th, our 8 social venture teams will give mid-term presentations to the UM community and Ross School of Business Social Venture Fund. Come join us. Our judges include several national leaders and supporters in the social entrepreneurship space, including a design consultant from IDEO.
Date: Friday, 4/15
Time: 10-12:30pm
Location: Ross (R0220)
Acumen Fund @ UM: Leading Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship
Course Details:
Course Number: ENGR 390.002
Class Time: Mon 3:00-4:30pm
Credits: 1.5
Location: 1200 EECS
In this course, students will learn a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and design thinking, as well as explore the individual skills and will necessary to respond to complex social needs both locally and globally. We will take an in depth look at Acumen Fund’s work in bringing innovations for limited resource settings to market, drawing upon the organization’s 10 years of experience investing capital and training high-impact leaders.
Students will be placed on interdisciplinary teams throughout the course to engage in hands-on activities, case studies, competitions, and a leadership project. Open to all disciplines at the undergraduate level.
Acumen Fund, a leading global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty, has officially partnered with the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship to develop this introductory course on leadership and social enterprise.
Change by Design
Course Details:
Course Number: ARTDES 314.001
Class Time: Mon 3-4:30pm (meets with ENGR 390.002) & Wed 1:30-4:30pm
Credits: 3
Location: Mon: 1200 EECS; Wed: 1258 A&D
In this project-based class, students will respond to pressing social needs through design thinking processes, including visioning, concept generation, sketching ideas, everyday ethnography, creative experimentation, and extensive prototyping and validation. Students will form interdisciplinary teams to work on actual entrepreneurial design projects focused on food, education, health care and income issues facing our community partners.
As part of the course, students will meet together with ENGR 390.002 Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship in order to acquire the theoretical frameworks and skills necessary for undertaking a social enterprise. They will then use those tools to design and develop their own ideas for a social venture that creates possibilities, products and systems in response to real world problems.
Note: Students enrolled in ARTDES 314.001 will meet concurrently with ENGR 390.002 on Mondays so there is no need to register for both.
Social Venture Creation Practicum
Course Details:
Course Number: ENGR 411.002
Class Time: Fri 10am-12pm
Credits: 3
Location: 1123 LBME
Are you working on an innovative social project/idea? Or are you interested in partnering with other UM social entrepreneurs on implementing a social innovation in either a domestic and international market? If so, you should apply for the Social Venture Creation Practicum.
In this course, you will take steps to launch and implement a social innovation. By the end of this course, student teams submit an implementation plan and make a presentation to a panel of industry experts and potential funders. The course heavily applies a customer discovery framework and process.
The hope is that the students will be able to implement innovations that can make real, long-lasting social impact. Open to all disciplines at both the undergraduate and graduate level. It is highly recommended to take ENGR 390.002 concurrently or another CFE core course prior to enrollment.
By application only: http://cfe.engin.umich.edu/forms/biz_idea
Overview:
There is a need for innovation in the traditional design process to successfully address the challenges of developing health technologies for resource-limited settings. Co-identification and co-development of design ideas with stakeholders guarantee sustainability of final products. Motivated multidisciplinary teams that are educated in non-traditional topics such as cultural competence are required to tackle the challenges associated with global health.
Covidien, a global medical device company, is sponsoring a co-creative, use-centric, low-cost medical device design projects scoping experience comprising students from the University of Michigan and the UM-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute. The student team will conduct clinical observations for the purpose of identifying minimally invasive surgery challenges and brainstorm solutions. The engineering students will complete their senior design project based on a challenge identified during the summer internship in China.
Opportunity:
We are looking to a MBA1 to join this design team for 8 weeks in China this summer (July-Aug) to help with the design process and provide a market-based lens to the team. The MBA1 will be expected to stay on as a consultant during the Fall 2011 term.
This is a highly selective application process as we will be accepting only one MBA1.
ALL SUMMER EXPENSES WILL BE PAID for admitted students. These expenses include:
The 8-week internships will take place in China during the months of July and August, 2011.
Applications will be rolling until March 25th. To apply, please email your resume, a 500 word statement of interest, and contact information for one person of reference (i.e. professor, former employer) to Moses Lee (moseslee@umich.edu).
This Friday, our 8 social venture team will give mid-term presentations to the UM community and Ross School of Business Social Venture Fund. Come join us. Our judges include Heather Esper (WDI), Aneel Karnani (Ross), Keith Cooley (Former Head of Focus Hope), Lauren Miller (Social Venture Fund), and Nick Tobier (Art&Design).
Date: Friday, 2/25
Time: 10-noon
Location: Ross (R0220)
Flyer: SVC Presentation Flier
A huge congrats! to MotoTool, a student social venture startup in this semester’s Social Venture Creation practicum, for being 1 of 15 semi-finalists selected for the Pitch for Change Competition at the upcoming Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (March 5-6).
MotoTool will give an in-person pitch on March 6. In the preliminary round, all 15 semi-finalists will will have 1 minute to present their ideas. The panel of judges will select 5 to 7 participants to move forward to the final round.
The finalists will then have 1 minute to pitch their ideas, using one slide, to an audience of nearly 1,200 people. The panel of judges will then select one winner, one first runner-up, and one second runner-up. The audience will also vote to select a recipient of the “Audience Choice” award.
Prizes will be a combination of cash as well as consulting hours by a prominent social enterprise consulting organization. The consulting hours are intended to help the winners to further develop their ideas.
Let’s root on MotoTool!
About MotoTool
MotoTool is a social enterprise that will manufacture devices that harness power from small motorcycle engines to produce electricity. The device is interchangeable with the rear wheel, enabling motorcycles to be used as both a mode of transportation and a source of electricity. The founders envision MotoTool providing electricity for agricultural tools or medical equipment in rural hospitals, or as a source of mobile, supplementary power after a natural disaster. MotoTool will increase the functional value of motorcycles and make positive economic and social impacts, particularly on individuals in India and other Asian countries where small motorcycles are ubiquitous. The MotoTool team is currently reiterating its business model and seeking funding for initial prototyping and market testing.
Contact information: moto-tool@umich.edu
Global Health Corps announced applications are open for year-long fellowships for professionals under 30 years old to work on the front lines of underserved communities around the world.
Global Health Corps is expanding this year to support 70 emerging leaders in their 2011-2012 fellowship class. Applications for placements in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and the USA are now open. GHC is seeking applicants with diverse skill-sets outside of the traditional health workforce—managers, communicators, architects, computer scientists, supply chain analysts and other exceptional young people from disciplines important to building strong health systems.
GHC has 36 fellows working on projects ranging from developing electronic medical record systems in Malawi, to counseling homeless youth in New Jersey, to constructing a world-class hospital in rural Rwanda.
You can choose the fellowship you want so you won’t end up a health counselor in Newark if refugee issues in Uganda or AIDS in Malawi are what’s calling you.
This year we have an incredible number of social venture projects in our course, Social Venture Creation. To look at the complete list of projects, click on the below link:
I&I Sports League from Moses Lee on Vimeo.
I&I: Inter-Community Sports League
I&I provides an inter-community sports league to under-privileged kids, bringing youth meaningful and productive after-school programs at an affordable cost. We will connect college students with the local community while they act as coaches. I&I provides youth from disadvantaged backgrounds with a fun and safe environment to be active and engaged and to play sports, as well as provides college students with more leadership and community service opportunities. Ultimately, we hope to reduce high school drop-out rates and juvenile crime rates iin the under-served community.
One important sponsor will be the school districts. Last year, the athletic budget for schools in Ann Arbor was cut by $1,000,000. Coaches, instructors, and equipment suffers because of this at schools. We see this, however, as an opportunity for our business to offer a low cost alternative for schools who cannot afford full-time physical education teachers and costly equipment. We will provide interactive and educational sports leagues that will supplement the schools’ extracurricular program by utilizing the university students we work with. Right now, we are validating our business model through interviewing various potential sponsors, including student organizations, School of Kinesiology and local business etc. We hope to launch a pilot program in the summer.
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