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…
For pre-med student Unice Karmue, his recent co-op with the Desmond Tutu Foundation in South Africa was a long way from his home country of Liberia, but the experience solidified his career goals to alleviate the global health inequalities in the world. Karmue, who is also one of the University’s Read more…
The microcredit organization, Esperanza International, has been successfully operating in the Dominican Republic and Haiti for the past 15 years to provide hope or in Spanish ‘esperanza’ to the rural poor by the dissemination of micro-finance loans. Esperanza is dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor and to date Read more…
Teach For America has long been lauded as a competitive program for bright college graduates to hone their chops in an intensive learning environment, while educating children at some of the nation’s lowest performing schools. TFA historically has a less than 10% acceptance rate, bringing in applicants from the best Read more…
Since an early age, Claire Fischer knew that she wanted to help save the world. In her junior high and high school years alone, she helped fundraise over $ 28,000 USD with her 30-hour famine approach for World Vision. Impressed by her fundraising achievements, Claire was chosen as a youth Read more…