Social Entrepreneurship: How Everyone Can be a Changemaker | The New School

Social Entrepreneurship: How Everyone Can be a Changemaker THE NEW SCHOOL | www.newschool.edu Join us in the launch of an exciting new partnership between The New School and Ashoka, a global association of the worlds leading social entrepreneurs. Bruce Nussbaum, faculty member at Parsons the New School for Design and BusinessWeek editor, will moderate a discussion with leading social entrepreneurs tackling diverse global challenges from poverty to climate change. Featured speakers include Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises and D-Rev Design for the other 90%; and Billy Parish, founder of Energy Action Coalition; as well as other extraordinary social entrepreneurs. The Ashoka Changemaker Campus Initiative is a unique partnership opportunity between Ashoka and a group of universities across the United States that aspires to improve teaching, research, and engagement opportunities in social entrepreneurship - both on campus and in the local and global communities in which we work. This event celebrating Ashokas partnership with The New School will include the participation ofMilano the New School for Management and Urban Policy, Parson The New School for Design, The New School for General Studies, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN | www.newschool.edu THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES | www.newschool.edu EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS | www.newschool.edu THE NEW SCHOOL FOR …

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