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Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship CCISE

Explore What's Next with the CCI - Sophomore Edition

Sponsored by:
SGA (Student Government Association) and Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Have you been thinking about your summer internship and post-college plans, but don’t know where to start? Here is your chance to discover the CCI, their hacks and hidden gems, and all the resources that are here to help you! Come to hear presentations on various career fields and to personally meet the CCI advisors and staff.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

What are the hidden strengths that emerge from poverty?

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Generations of poor families have an engrained mentality of solving problems in a resourceful, innovative way. In a world faced with climate change and decreasing resources we should learn more about the resilience of impoverished communities. A discussion facilitated by the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD) will explore this topic and engage the collective intelligence of the Middlebury community. We want to think critically about how the AASD and Midd students can avoid paternalistic development practices and learn from the sustainability of the Andean communities.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

TEDxMiddlebury: Playing the Game

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
A TEDx event is a local, independently-organized gathering where live TED-like talks and videos previously recorded at TED conferences are shared with the community. The theme of TEDxMiddlebury 2016 is “Playing the Game,” which aims to highlight the ways in which each of us learns to navigate these games and by extension, the systems that surround us. It is about the various personas we take on to ‘win’ different rounds, about being honest in the face of expectations, and about deciding whether or not to play by the rules.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

$20/15/8
Open to the Public

Scaling Social Impact Bonds

Sponsored by:
ZZ Socially Responsible Investment Club, Center for Careers & Internships, and Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Pay for Success-How Govt. and Impact Investors are Tackling Society’s Challenges Please join us on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. In Axinn 219 to learn about new a public policy innovation that is helping accelerate progress on society’s most challenging social problems. Pay for Success contracts (also called Social Impact Bonds) combine social impact investing, rigorous evaluation and data analysis, and government performance contracts to improve the delivery and impact of social service programs.

Axinn Center 219

Open to the Public

Reflection Fridays

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
Please join the Social Entrepreneurship Program on selected Fridays for lunchtime conversations between members of the Middlebury community answering the question “What matters to me, and why?” Lunch from Grapevine Grille will be available to the first 20 attendees.

McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge

Open to the Public

Reflection Friday: "What Matters to me and Why" with Professor Murray Dry

Sponsored by:
Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship
On selected Fridays the Social Entrepreneurship Program hosts reflective talks during which speakers will respond to the prompt: “What matters to me, and why.” During these lunchtime conversations, students and other members of the Middlebury community will reflect on their own ‘story of self’ and offer insights about the challenges of effecting social change. Lunch is provided for the first 25 attendees. On Friday December 9th, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Murray Dry will conclude our Fall series by sharing with us what matters to him and why

McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge

Open to the Public