http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag Fri, 17 May 2013 13:21:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/05/08/students-make-pitch-for-social-entrepreneur-grants/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/05/08/students-make-pitch-for-social-entrepreneur-grants/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 13:35:41 +0000 Stephen Diehl http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=8272 At the first-ever grant awards competition for Middlebury’s new Center for Social Entrepreneurship, the room was full of nervous energy. Five student teams gave short pitches to a panel of judges, trying to convince them that their summer project was worthy of a $2,000 grant. Each team had already received a $3,000 grant from the center, but they all made strong cases for how the bonus funds would help. The projects were as diverse as the students themselves: composting operations for high schools, farming insects for food, using geographic information systems to alleviate hunger, training young social entrepreneurs in Mexico, and creating a safe home for street children in Ethiopia.  Professor Jon Isham, faculty director for the center, tells MiddMag that the students captured the spirit of social entrepreneurship beautifully.

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