John Kohler, Executive Fellow and a Sr. Director of Impact Capital Innovation at Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, chats with Rupert Scofield about mentoring the next generation of social entrepreneurs. The Miller Center is “the largest and most successful university-based social enterprise accelerator in the world” and aims to accelerate entrepreneurship to end global poverty and protect the planet. This episode: What is the GSBI accelerator and what makes it so unique? How should social entrepreneurs be thinking about start-up accelerators? What are considerations for balancing social impact with financial returns?
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Media Contacts
Rhonda Brauer for Miller Center, rhonda@rbrauerconsult.com, (213) 508-0426
Deborah Lohse, SCU Media Communications, dlohse@scu.edu, (408) 554-5121
About Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, located at Santa Clara University, has accelerated more than 1000 social enterprises since 2003. These collectively have improved, transformed, or saved the lives of over 400 million people in 100 countries. We help transform social ministries to more sustainable social enterprise models. We engage Santa Clara University students in research that helps social enterprises, leveraging our location in the heart of Silicon Valley and our Jesuit ambition to end poverty and protect the planet.
About Santa Clara University
Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University sits in the heart of Silicon Valley—the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial region. The University’s stunningly landscaped 106-acre campus is home to the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís. SCU has among the best four-year graduation rates in the nation and is rated by PayScale in the top 1 percent of universities with the highest-paid graduates. SCU has produced elite levels of Fulbright Scholars as well as four Rhodes Scholars. With undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, and graduate programs in six disciplines, the curriculum blends high-tech innovation with social consciousness grounded in the tradition of Jesuit, Catholic education. For more information see www.scu.edu.
About The Social Enterprise Podcast
In this podcast, Rupert Scofield, President, CEO and Co-Founder of FINCA International and author of ‘The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook’, explores the challenges of starting, building and running a social enterprise. Guests include other social entrepreneurs and impact investors who share their insights and experience.
