Social Entrepreneurship Initiative

TEDxUofM - Moses Lee & Nick Tobier - "Unleashing Social Entrepreneurship"

Unleashing Social Entrepreneurship

A Stand for Vegetables: Get Fresh Detroit

Detroit is hungry for fresh fruits and vegetables. For more than half of its residents, a fast food restaurant or corner store is at least two times closer than a true grocery store, according to a 2007 report by independent food consultant Mari Gallagher.

College Student Entrepreneurs Get Stars for Start-Ups

Every Thursday, Zach Markin and Noam Kimelman load up the 1996 Buick they've dubbed the Get Fresh Mobile with packages of produce and make the rounds to 10 convenience stores that sell their vegetables...

Making an Impact with Social Entrepreneurship

Moses Lee wanted to make his own mark on the world. Now, as the academic program manager and a lecturer at the University of Michigans Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE), he feels he has the opportunity to do so. Being a part of the CFE has allowed him to fulfill his passions...

Get Fresh Detroit: University of Michigan Students Address the Food Crisis

Poor public infrastructure. Government corruption. Lack of access to food. Poor education systems. People living in poverty...

Social Venture Creation: Student Talk About Their Projects (Video)

U-M students talk about their projects and the social venture creation class.

Entrepreneurship for Social Good

In a new Social Venture Creation course at the University of Michigan, students who want to make the world a better place are learning hands-on how to use market principles to solve society's challenges...

Doing the Right Thing ... With a Business Plan

This past weekend, I attended a symposium at the University of Michigan. It consisted of the presentations offinal course projects done by students in a Winter 2010 class titled Social Venture Creation...

Detroit Produce Team Wins Contest

Team Get Fresh Detroit, with its plan to create and distribute a packaged produce product targeted to the city's party stores, won the $1,000 funding prize at the April 17 business plan competition for the UM Social Venture Creation course...

Students Win $1,000 to Bring Fresh Produce to Detroit Stores

A panel of business experts awarded a $1,000 prize to a team of students that came up with a plan to provide fresh produce to convenience stores in Detroit at the Social Venture Creation Gala held on Saturday, April 17 at the Ross School of Business...

The Climax of My Academic Career

This weekend I not only closed out my time with my spiritual family in Ann Arbor, but also my academic pursuits as a student at the Michigan business school...

How to Use Entrepreneurship for Social Good: A Unique Class

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - In a new Social Venture Creation course at the University of Michigan, students who want to make the world a better place are learning hands-on how to use market principles to solve society's challenges...

University of Michigan Social Venture Creation Class Discusses The Blue Sweater (Video)

Making College Relevant

THOMAS COLLEGE, a liberal arts school in Maine, advertises itself as Home of the Guaranteed Job! Students who can't find work in their fields within six months of graduation can come back to take classes free, or have the college pay their student loans for a year...