Great visit in our social entrepreneurship class today with Bill Bennett, executive director and founder of Kiza Solutions. Bill helped us see how to build a purpose-driven business with a committed and amazing team working together from all over the globe. He also told us he and Amanda Bennett's journey to building a business with purpose and founded on the principle of serving others.
Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Miami University
Higher Education
Pioneering social entrepreneurship research, education, and ecosystems since 2007.
About us
Miami University's Center for Social Entrepreneurship creates hands-on, experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates and strives to give students the tools they need to leave their mark on the world. The Center defines social entrepreneurship as "innovative solutions to persistent social problems - particularly to those that are marginalized or poor - that create social value through sustainable, systemic change." These social problems include a wide range of sectors - financial, educational, environmental, governmental, nutritional, and many others. The Center challenges students to think about these issues, both in the U.S. and around the world, and provides them with the tools to address them in a meaningful way.
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Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship and organizational theory 2021 Mary-Jean Mitchell Green | Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar
I was in Quebec City last weekend participating in the 2021 Scholar #Impact Conference "Ripples of Impact: Reflexivity, Research and Community Engagement" - the culminating event for the 2021 Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholars. 🌟 Sharing this with 14 other exceptional #scholars made this #scholarship journey particularly unique. We have become more than colleagues - we're a #community. As highlighted by President & CEO (pro tem) Bettina B. Cenerelli, our cohort exemplifies the Foundation's mission of fostering engaged #leadership through #diverse perspectives and #collaborative learning. It was enriching to once more learn from, and discuss with, our diverse cohort: Lydie Christelle Belporo (criminology), Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre (law), Monique Auger (social policy) Joshua Okyere (peace building), Anick Desrosiers (social work), María Juliana Angarita Bohórquez (memorial heritage), Jasmine Mah, MD (aging care), Kowan O'Keefe (climate policy), Cristina Wood (environmental history), Raphaël Grenier-Benoit (judicial power), Prativa Baral, PhD (health crisis), Bryon Maxey (Islamic manuscripts), Chanelle Robinson (womanist theology), and Roxana Akhmetova (AI governance). Each scholar brought wise and profound insights to pressing social challenges. These are our current "next #generation" leaders. A personal milestone: I presented my research on #womensentrepreneurship with about 25% of my presentation in #French! As someone who began learning French through this scholarship, this moment represented not just academic growth, but personal #transformation. Merci beaucoup, PETF! 🇫🇷 The Foundation's investment in scholars goes far beyond financial support - it creates pathways for doctoral researchers to become engaged leaders who drive meaningful change in their communities. My research on reframing women's entrepreneurship is just one small ripple in this larger mission of #socialimpact. Grateful for this incredible journey of #growth, #learning, and #communitybuilding. Here's to continuing to challenge conventional wisdom and create positive change! 🌊 #PETFScholars #WomenInResearch #AcademicLeadership #CommunityEngagement #SocialImpact #GratefulHeart
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Kelly Dolan, Our newest Entrepreneur In Residence visited our social entrepreneurship classes this morning. Kelly shared a ton of great insights about how to build a career with purpose, and told us about her journey starting Ingage Partners, Thrive Impact Sourcing, and her latest project, Team Conduit, LLC.
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Yesterday, the Council on Social Entrepreneurship welcomed Mark Davis from Necco as the featured speaker for their latest Lunch and Learn event. In an intimate setting, students and faculty explored the intersection of business, social impact, and the foster care system. During the lunch event Mark offered valuable perspectives on the foster care system. He highlighted the distinction between for-profit and non-profit organizations, the complexities of a fragmented system, and the ongoing shortage of foster homes. Mark also underscored the need for stronger advocacy, policy reform, and innovative solutions that combine market strategies with charitable initiatives to improve outcomes in foster care. It was an insightful discussion, COSE and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship are grateful to Mark for sharing his experiences and wisdom with our aspiring social entrepreneurs. It’s clear that there’s much more to be done to improve the foster care system, and we’re excited to explore how social entrepreneurship can play a role in that transformation. Thank you to COSE members Evan Moody, Anna Sullivan, Geoffrey Greunke, Khloe Gill, and Nathan Rush
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Another amazing guest in our Social Entrepreneurship classes today. The one and only Beatrice Newberry, 2020 alumna of the Miami University Farmer School of Business and John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship. Bea was also instrumental in building a lot of the social entrepreneurship programs that are the backbone of our programs today #socialinnovationweekend. Thanks, Bea for sharing your advice for building a purpose-driven career and giving a master class on how change management consulting is done at local #bcorp, TiER1 Performance.
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It's hard to think of many people who have done more to champion social enterprise in the #startupcincy ecosystem than Kelly Dolan. Kelly has been an incredible contributor to social entrepreneurship, both in and outside the classroom, at Miami for over a decade. We're overjoyed to finally have her join the team officially!
The John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship in the Miami University Farmer School of Business is excited to welcome Kelly Dolan (MU '94 in Organizational Communications) as our newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). Kelly Dolan is both passionate and experienced in cultivating thriving cultures and operating purpose-driven businesses with sustained profitability. With over a decade of experience leading sales and marketing for technology professional services firms, Kelly launched her own company, Ingage Partners, and became southwest Ohio’s first Certified B Corp. Today, the company is 100% employee-owned under Revision Collective. With more than 25 years of experience in professional services leading sales and marketing for technology professional services firms, Kelly has built her reputation as a relationship-oriented leader, curator of culture, and champion of triple-bottom-line businesses. Kelly is a former TEDx speaker advocating for the positive impact businesses can have in our communities. Her commitment to transparency, accountability, and setting high business and social performance standards has been widely recognized, including, Fast 55, Best Places to Work, Best for the World- a recognition among Certified B Corps, 40 Under 40, and Women of the Year. Kelly earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication from Miami University in 1994 and volunteers her time with Youth Mental Health Prevention organizations, B Corps, and other conscious business organizations. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Revision Collective, a 100% Employee-Owned holding company, and co-founder of Conduit, a private membership learning community for specialty trades owners committed to building a legacy. Kelly joins an outstanding group of startup and business professionals as members of the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship's EiR program, a group that includes: 👉 Nick Jackson (Cincinnati), Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Nick Jackson Speaks, LLC. 👉 Eric Weissmann (Greenville), Executive Director of NextGEN in Greenville and former VP of Communications, Community and Economic Inclusion at StartupCincy-based Cintrifuse. 👉 Holly N. O'Driscoll (Cincinnati), Founder and CEO at Ampersand Innovation, LLC and Former Global Design Thinking Leader and Innovation Strategist at Procter & Gamble. 👉 David Willbrand (San Francisco), Chief Legal Officer at Pacaso and former Partner and Chair of the Emerging Company Practice at Thompson Hine LLP. 👉 John McIlwraith (Cincinnati and Indianapolis), Co-Founder and Managing Director at Allos Ventures and board director at benefitbay®, OneCause, Scale Computing, and Maven Machines, among others. For more information about the Altman Institute's EiR program, visit https://ow.ly/lgnC50TMTTG. #LoveandHonor #BeyondReady #MiamiOHEntrepreneurship #MiamiOH #StartupCincy Miami University Alumni Association
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NEW RESEARCH! Kylie Heales, Assistant professor and Social Entrepreneurship Researcher at the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship, published a paper titled "Hybridizing Sustainability Metric Applications with Local Stakeholder Inputs: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with Co-Design Demonstrations." Congratulations to Co-Authors Maggie M. Cascadden, Matt Kingston, Pia Heidak, Dev (P. Devereaux) Jennings. ABSTRACT: Sustainability standards have been criticized as being complex and overlapping, with unclear metrics and messy timelines – all of which have led to sustainability shortfalls. We develop a hybridizing protocol for sustainability standards that elicits community stakeholder ideological predispositions, preferences, ratings, and heuristics and injects them into a prioritized, vetted metric in order to reduce immediate and longer-range lifecycle impacts of corporate operations in the local ecosystem. We demonstrate our method using a quasi-field experiment, conducted by expert intermediary facilitators, in which community members co-design Oil Sands wetland reclamation and their choices are integrated into life cycle assessments (LCAs) of wetland designs and remediation products. Hybridizing LCA with local co-design not only generates an effective wetland-material choice, but reduces life cycle impacts and increases the likelihood of community acceptance.
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Field Trip! Miami social entrepreneurship students visited Thread Up Oxford today. Founder/Director Shana Rosenberg showed us Thread Up's operations center and gave us a master-class in the textile industry and its impact on the environment and social justice in our communities. If you're in Oxford, visit their Uptown Threads retail store on Church St. https://lnkd.in/e2QYiFW3
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NEW RESEARCH! - Michael Conger, CSE Miami Director and faculty at the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship published a new study titled "Supporting Refugees: An Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness Approach" which is now in print in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights (Check out a brief description below). Congratulations to Michael and his coauthors Hans Rawhouser, Mazhar Islam, Lisa Jones Christensen, Ph.D., MBA, Trent Williams, Elizabeth Embry, and Cindy Trussel ---------------- ABSTRACT In this new paper, we provide some theoretical scaffolding to understand choices faced by Lighthouse Charities-Las Vegas, NV as a refugee sponsoring organization facing the need to help refugees temporarily, as they transition to a new host country. Lighthouse's founder, Cindy Trussel, uses an entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach, working with the skills and interests of refugees and volunteers to determine what opportunities can be created. This involves a key choice: integrate refugees into work integration social enterprises (started by Lighthouse) or help them start their own business. We use trauma exposure, identity adjustment and entrepreneurial failure to explain how to match resources and opportunities, modify resources to refugees, and eventually transition away from ER Find the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eCG6vD9z
NEW RESEARCH: Happy to share a new paper I just published in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights. "Supporting Refugees: An Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness Approach" In this new paper, we provide some theoretical scaffolding to understand choices faced by Lighthouse Charities-Las Vegas, NV as a refugee sponsoring organization facing the need to help refugees temporarily, as they transition to a new host country. Lighthouse's founder, Cindy Trussel, uses an entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach, working with the skills and interests of refugees and volunteers to determine what opportunities can be created. This involves a key choice: integrate refugees into work integration social enterprises (started by Lighthouse) or help them start their own business. We use trauma exposure, identity adjustment and entrepreneurial failure to explain how to match resources and opportunities, modify resources to refugees, and eventually transition away from ER. A great team: Hans Rawhouser, Mazhar Islam, Lisa Jones Christensen, Ph.D., MBA, Trent Williams, Elizabeth Embry, Cindy Trussel, and myself See our paper here: https://lnkd.in/eHGQpC-v
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This morning, Mark Davis, Chief Strategy Officer at Necco joined our Social Entrepreneurship class to talk about Necco's great work in helping kids and foster families across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, and West Virginia, and about how they are working to change the system of caring for at risk kids for the better.