Innovation embodies many of our Empowerment Core Values. On-going innovation is dependent upon a high level of collaboration, accountability, outcomes focus, empathy, and throws in one key element. Risk. When we innovate we fail. Or as Thomas Edison famously put it “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.
It is very […]
One of the very first things I learned about MicroConsignment before heading down to Guatemala as a Field Leader for Social Entrepreneur Corp’s summer program (http://socialentrepreneurcorps.com/jobs/) was that one of the reasons the president and co-founder of SEC, Greg Van Kirk, invented the MicroConsignment model, and founded our local partner, Soluciones Comunitarias as a business, […]
It was about five o’clock in the evening when our van took a curve a little too close to the edge of the dirt road and managed to wedge itself in a muddied ditch. I was a Field Leader at the time, working with a group of students in the Dominican Republic, and we were […]
Social Entrepreneur Corps (SE Corps) provides service-learning internships to students from around the world, in which they serve as community consultants for our sister organzations Community Empowerment Solutions (CE Solutions) and Soluciones Comunitarias (SolCom).
Social Entrepreneur Corps works alongside Soluciones Comunitarias, facilitating projects that further develop empowerment in the communities as well as partnerships with other […]
Today we are launching our January #ProjectEmpowerment campaign around the need, better put, requirement to be “client outcomes-focused” in our work. This is our fourth core value. As our followers know, in September we were excited to launch #ProjectEmpowerment, a social media campaign that highlights the core values that inspire our work at Social Entrepreneur […]
Kathleen S. from Notre Dame sits and chats with a group of children outside a campaign in Riobamba, Ecuador. So much of the trust we create comes from simple moments of human interaction.
Today we are launching our December campaign around “Trust”, our third core value. We delayed a week as we know many were focused […]
A group of SECorps interns in Ecuador pose with a group of children in Pulingui, Ecuador during the 2014 SE Corps Program. In this photo, the interns were visiting a local school to collect data and information regarding access to clean water. Much of the work that intern groups focus on involves creating access to […]
This Friday, October 16th, is World Food Day. This is a day when people around the world join the movement against hunger and create one voice in affirmation of their commitment to the eradication of hunger in our lifetime. In celebration of this occasion I’d like to take this time to reflect on an experience […]
It is safe to say that CE Solutions’ busiest months are in June and July. This is the time when we have our Social Entrepreneur Corps interns working with us. During these months, the participants have the chance of winning Virtual NGO (VNGO) money, which they allocate where they see fit to organizations and groups […]
Summer has officially begun! Except, because we’re just slightly south of the Equator, it’s technically winter here in Ecuador. Kicking off our summer of amazing internship programs with our sister organization Social Entrepreneur Corps, five students from the University of Notre Dame’s Student International Business Council (SIBC) are joining the Ecuador team for a 2-week […]
