by Connie E Kailash Satyarthi was the joint 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate with Malala Yousafzai. A group of us were lucky enough to meet him at MIT on October 17. To me, Nobel Prize winners have always seemed to have a “halo” over their head that makes them somehow Read more…
by Jackie Rothmeier On Thursday October 8th, 2015, Northeastern University’s Social Enterprise Institute hosted Reverend Roche Van Wyk, Director of Learn to Earn, to speak on his knowledge and experience in the social enterprise space as a part of the SEI monthly lecture series. Learn to Earn is a skills Read more…
5 Graduate Programs for Students Interested in Social Entrepreneurship by Alexina Prather SEI provides students with a wonderful base of knowledge to begin a career in social entrepreneurship, but what comes after life at SEI? As students graduate and move on to the next stage of life, it is important Read more…
By Zoe Pilla On any given day at Pine Street Inn, hundreds of homeless men and women stream through the doors for a hot meal, a bed, health check-ups or appointments with counselors. The South End campus is an overwhelming, busy and stark environment. Pine Street’s goal is to find Read more…
by Ali Matalon I have been writing this article for a long time now, in my head. I keep trying to craft coherent sentences that appropriately reflect what the last year has been like for me- and for so many others, but to no avail. So, this article may not Read more…
by Professor Dennis Shaughnessy An important new book has been published called “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America”. The authors Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer explore the long underpublicized and now shocking story of extreme poverty right here in the US. More than 1.5 million families, Read more…