Cape Town, South Africa— Taking the classroom beyond Boston, forty students from Northeastern University consulted with local entrepreneurs and business students in Cape Town, South Africa on a four week Field Study Program. Led by the College of Business Administration’s Social Enterprise Institute (SEI), the trip provided students the opportunity Read more…
For Michael Cantalino, a junior at Northeastern University, challenges are presented daily during his co-op at SKS Micro-finance in India. There is the language barrier, culture shock, and the current controversy surrounding SKS in India- all factors that not everyone faces while on co-op. But, the challenges of daily life Read more…
There are currently almost 34 million people living with HIV worldwide, 30 million of these infected people live in developing countries. Additionally, over 1,000 children are newly infected with HIV per day with many more adult infections on the rise. On Wednesday, December 1, people all over the world joined Read more…
The university hosted the ForSE 2010: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs on Oct. 30, drawing more than 200 scholars, students, social innovators, and investors to advance social entrepreneurship by sharing new technology and business ideas. President Joseph E. Aoun lauded the work done at Northeastern’s Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) — the Read more…
Use capitalism as a force for good. World of Good Development Organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on building strategies to substantially improve economic and social conditions for millions of women and adolescent girls in the developing world living on less than $2 a day. When World of Good Read more…
Free the world of all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor to bring about change in their own lives. We were founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the Read more…