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Pitch Perfect: Take The Lead’s Entrepreneur Winners Share Success

Fundraising Leadership

Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at the recent 50 Women in Entrepreneurship graduation and pitch competition. The 11 women leaders who pitched their new ventures at the recent 50 Women Can Change The World in Entrepreneurship graduation event to a panel of judges kept it short and sweet.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Call for Entrepreneurship Many entrepreneurs choose health care as a venue for innovation because it is one of the sectors where one can do well by doing good. However, the majority of entrepreneurship in the health sector has focused on downstream interventions such as therapeutics and health delivery solutions.

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Liptrap “While Dorff admits he is ‘inspired’ by the social-entrepreneurship movement, he has no illusions about the benefit corporation. Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. Dorff, reviewed by J. Open to nonsubscribers for a limited time. Subscribe here.)

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Pharmaceutical maker Moderna , for instance, recently announced that it would build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya. For example, any company, no matter its industry, can build an “anchor” facility in a low-income community that employs local residents and supports their well-being.

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Lean Digital Campaigns

Care2

Lean manufacturing, first pioneered by Toyota manufacturing in the mid-20th century, aims to focus a nimble supply chain around real (rather than estimated) customer demand. Eric Ries adapted this philosophy to entrepreneurship in his 2011 book, The Lean Startup.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” . Boeing seeks “to improve kindergarten readiness—particularly in mathematics—to generate interest and sustained participation in STEM disciplines through hands-on, experiential learning.