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Nourish International’s own Chaz Littlejohn will be speaking at the conference Creating Global Change on Tuesday August 5th about the impact assessment he did as a student on our trip to Uganda last summer.
The conference is being put on by the Student Movement for Real Change, Americans for Informed Democracy and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. To hear Chaz speak or get more information on the conference visit their website.
The Chapel Hill Restauraunt Group has graciously agreed to provide the food for banquet of our Keynote Event.
The CHRG is the winner of the 2007 Sustainable Business of the Year, as awarded by the Foundation for a Sustainable Community, Chapel Hill. They’ve also recently opened Mez, North Carolina’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designed restaurant.
Thank you!
In the spirit of the last post, it’s not just speakers who are pitching in to make the Summer Institute happen. Many businesses and organizations in the local community have chipped in to help make the Institute a success.
Note from the office: Sponsorship opportunities are still available. If you’re interested, please send an email to info@nourishinternational.org.
Host Sponsor: UNC Center for Global Initiatives
Banquet Sponsor: Mona Verde Productions
See the full list of sponsors after the jump.
The Summer Institute is really coming together! Here’s an updated list of people that have agreed to speak and businesses that have partnered with us to help make this event happen.
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Gergen, founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, LLC, instructor of Duke’s Enterprising Leadership Initiative (Hart Leadership Program), and co-author of “Life Entrepreneurs: Mavericks in the Art of Leading and Living.”
Social Entrepreneurship Theory and Concepts: Dr. Jim Johnson, the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
Community Partner Perspective: Dr. Christopher Kigongo, a Ugandan physician working as a clinical trial manager at Duke University. He was also the founder of the Millennium School, one of this year’s summer projects.
Management and Growth: Ryan Allis, founder and CEO of iContact, and author of the book , Zero to One Million, describing how to go from a blank slate to 1 million dollars in sales. Ryan is also a dedicated board member of Nourish International.
Succeeding Against the Odds: Sindhura Citineni, founder of Nourish International, recipient of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year Award and a dental student at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Dentistry.
A special Nourish thank you goes out to David Bornstein and Ashoka for kindly donating 24 copies of David’s book How to Change the World to our chapter network — one for each of our new chapters. The book is a great introduction to entrepreneurial approaches to solving social problems and we’re really grateful for the gift.
We’ll be passing out the books to Chapter Founders/Leaders at the Summer Institute this August. To get your own copy of the book, click here.
The UNC Center for Global Initiatives has agreed to co-sponsor our 2008 Summer Institute, hosting it at the FedEx Global Education Center on the campus of UNC at Chapel Hill.
The Institute will focus on engaging Nourish students in the topics of international development and social entrepreneurship so that they are equipped to select community partners and raise project funds in the coming year.
We’re incredibly excited to have the Center for Global Initiatives on board, both as a host sponsor and a partner in the planning process.
Good news — we’ve hired a Chapter Coordinator (more on the new member of our team is still to come!), however, our breakneck expansion requires that we continue hiring!
Now we’re accepting resumes for a Development Director. If you’re interested, check it out on Idealist or read the description below.
To apply, send a resume/cover letter to james@nourishinternational.org.
Summary
While filling out my registration for the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s 2008 Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, I was asked to indicate the type of Company/Organization that I work for.
Most people in my situation would find this easy. They’d scroll down to “Non-profit/Trade Association” and move on with their registration. For me, however, this brought up a question about how Nourish International identifies itself. Keep reading…
This year’s Chapter Founders Selection Process is complete! When the dust settled on April 11th, 67 students from 25 colleges and universities had applied to start Nourish Chapters on their campus. After a rigorous review process, we selected 31 of them from 19 different universities to found Chapters on their campus.
These students will receive $500 in seed money, professional training at the Summer Institute and support throughout the year as they found an organization on their campus capable of investing thousands of dollars a year in sustainable, anti-poverty projects.
We couldn’t be more excited to work with these students — even our team was impressed by their individual talents, enthusiasm and passion for supporting local poverty solutions. Check out the full list of Founders by institution after the jump and keep an eye out for those names this year — we expect great things!
Note: If you’re interested in supporting a team of energetic and talented students at one of the campuses below, please send an email to info@nourishinternaitonal.org.
Bright and early this morning, the National Office welcomed two new members to it’s team: our summer interns, Purnima Venkat and Carlyn Cowen. As full-time members of our staff this summer, they’ll be focusing on updating our website, planning the summer institute, building our future project database and maybe even a little blogging, if we’re lucky.
Check out their bios - we couldn’t be more excited to have them as a part of our team!
