Social Entrepreneurship Summer
Are you curious to learn more about social entrepreneurship or, more specially, doing good in the world while running a money-making business? Consider this three- week program through the Boston Leadership Institute. Here’s an overview from their website:
Did you know that doing good and living comfortably are not mutually exclusive? Social entrepreneurship is not just voluntarism. It requires courage, innovation and brilliant ideas. Are you interested in starting a profitable, successful company with a focus on the greater good? Maybe you’re hoping to decrease fossil fuel emissions or feel passionate about tackling the abundance of plastic waste. Maybe you’re concerned with educating the disadvantaged or making potable water accessible to water starved populations around the world? In this age of social media, you can raise support and build a powerful and successful business that changes the world. Under the guidance of an MIT-educated innovator with a Masters degree from The Tufts School of Law and Diplomacy in Development Economics, Strategy, and Innovation, you’ll discover how to take your big ideas and make them a reality.
How do I get started? Go to the website for the Boston Leadership Institute.
How do I expand this narrative arc? Check out some of the other entrepreneurship ideas we have found for you by searching our database under “Business and Entrepreneurship”. You should think about how you can broaden or deepen your narrative arc, including with one of the following:
Spend your next summer in a pure entrepreneurship program like LaunchX or Quarter Zero
Have a look at Wharton’s Management and Technology summer program.
If you are interested in the intersection between sustainability and entrepreneurship, consider Sustainable Summer, which includes a program at Dartmouth at which students develop commercial solutions to climate change problems.
Put your ideas into action when you launch a business in your own community.
The Knowledge Society runs year round programs in an number of cities across the country. Find out if there’s a cohort near you.
Want to do something similar through a different organization to expand your network and try your ideas in a different setting? Check out Leangap Entrepreneur.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SUMMER PROGRAMS: College admissions officers are very adept at identifying “resume padders”: expensive, one-off programs paid for by your parents which do not mesh with your narrative arc. Therefore, make sure any summer program or course you consider falls into one (or more) of these four buckets:
Highly selective/competitive
Totally unique + linked to your narrative arc
Evidence of adulthood (long hours, multi-year commitment or simply hard work)
A jumping off point or expansion for an authentic narrative arc.
If none of the above apply, a program could still have value to you if it allows you to test a potential interest. However, if it does not end up being a jumping off point for further interests, then you may not want to mention it in your high school resume