Change Your World
This Common Theme invites IUPUI students, staff and faculty and the broader community to a two-year discussion about how to change the world around them. Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many. [More..]
2011-2013 Common Theme Book
This year's Common Theme book is David Bornstein's How to Change the World.
Opportunities
- Faculty: Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Community Health Engagement Program applications due January 30, 2012. For complete application guidelines, visit www.indianactsi.org/grants, log in using IUPUI username and password and select “CHEP Community-Based Research Awards (CBR).” Contact Emily Hardwick at ejhardwi@iupui.edu.
- Faculty: Center for Research and Learning MURI (Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Institute) Team Project Proposals--Summer 2012 due February 1, 2012 http://crl.iupui.edu/programs/MURI/index.asp.
- All Students: Binational/Cross Cultural Health Enhancement Center (BiCCHEC) Community-Based Pilot Research Grants for Students- 2nd round grant applications due February 15, 2012 http://www.iusd.iupui.edu/BICCHEC_Site/Student_Projects.aspx.
- Undergraduate Students: Applications for Center for Research and Learning (CRL) 2012 Summer Research Programs due March 1, 2012 http://www.crl.iupui.edu/programs/.
- Additional internal funding opportunities from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research http://research.iupui.edu/funding/.
Join Us
IUPUI Social Entrepreneurship Network on LinkedIn
You may also join the "Social Entrepreneurs" project site in Oncourse by searching on "social entrepreneurs" in Oncourse, or by contacting Kathleen Hanna (kgreatba@iupui.edu) to be added manually.
