| seMagicBus Presents: Social Enterprise Start Up School
India - October, 2012
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| What is it? Social Enterprise Magic Bus is a transformative international learning experience in real-life social entrepreneurship. This unique program turns the field into a classroom, delivering lectures "on the bus" in between field-based research and exercises. SE Magic Bus's learning-by-doing approach emphasizes personal growth, leadership development, and skills acquisition. SE Magic Bus inspires social entrepreneurship at home by imbuing its participants with knowledge, tools, networks, and practical experience to become change makers. Social Enterprise Magic Bus is a one-of-a-kind experiential learning program that yields real results. Social Enterprise Start Up School - is an intensive "boot camp"-like course designed for graduate students, recent grads, practitioners and professionals interested in learning how to design and launch a social enterprise. Created in concert with a top tier Indian Management University in Hyderabad, Social Enterprise Start Up School fosters interaction, collaboration and a joint discovery process between participants from the US, Canada, Europe and India though competitions, discussions, assignments and field work. From ideation to feasibility analysis and business planning, participants work closely in teams to conceive a business concept based on a real social problem, and then undertake a research and planning process to craft an implementable social venture business plan aimed at solving the problem. Classroom lectures direct participants' extensive field-based research to understand on the ground realities, market conditions, and social intricacies that inform their business concept. Magic Bus participants will live and work in rural and urban India, experiencing social enterprise in both contexts. At the end of the course participants will complete a real social enterprise business plan. Start date early October 2012 (exact dates to be decided.) Course credits may be available through Indian Management Institute in Hyderabad. Internship Option - Start Up School participants have the opportunity to extend their stay in India and participate in an 8 - 10 week implementation internship following the course, focused on refining and implementing their social enterprise business plan. Additional costs apply to cover food, lodging and supervision. |
Course Details - For Whom: Graduate students, recent grads and practitioners interested in learning how to starting a social enterprise
- When: Two weeks days in early October 2012
- Where: Hyderabad India and environs (urban context) and Bhimavaram (rural context)
- Tuition: US $4,000 + international airfare. Tuition covers all in-country costs: food, lodging, in-country transportation, professional fees, local staff, entrance fees and visits, and insurance.
- Internship Option: 8 - 10 weeks to implement business plan
- For more information: www.seMagicBus.com
- Spaces are limited!!!! Register your interest: info@seMagicBus.com
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- "Life-Changing," Tracey Granda, SEMB 2010
- "The most valuable learning experience I've had in my pursuit of higher education," Elise Kubrisk, SEMB 2009
- "SE MagicBus India was one of the most eye opening experiences of my life," Amber Nysson, SEMB 2009
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Social Enterprise Magic Bus Benefits - Build skills - SE Magic Bus's learning-by-doing approach teaches real social enterprise skills that cannot be gained other than through practical experience.
- Work experience - Gain not only international exposure, but actual field work experience - a requirement for most jobs in international development.
- Faculty rooted in practice - Program content draws on decades of on-the-ground experience working with social enterprises in more than 45 countries.
- Networks - Interact with service providers, leading social entrepreneurs, social investors, and academics.
- Small groups - Cohort sizes are limited to enable experiential learning, foster team work and encourage relationship building.
- Knowledge products - Receive access to comprehensive social enterprise strategic and management resources.
- Alumni network - Build relationships with like-minded peers who have a shared SEMB experience.
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| | | Social Enterprise MagicBus Creator, Kim Alter has endeavored for over 20 years in more than 40 countries to employ business tools and market-based approaches in the social sector to create social change and alleviate poverty. Alter is Founder and Managing Director of Virtue Ventures; Creator of Social Enterprise Magic Bus; Founder of seToolbelt; Founder and CEO of Jump for Joy Farm; Founding Board Member of Social Enterprise Alliance and former Visiting Fellow to the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Sa骾 Business School, University of Oxford (2004-2010). She has taught courses and designed curriculum on social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and impact investing at a number of universities.
What are you waiting for?
Get on the bus! |
seMagicBus is an initiative of Virtue Ventures LLC Learn more by visiting www.semagicbus.com |
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