Social Entrepreneurship Career Panel

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Social Entrepreneurship Career Panel

Featuring Social Entrepreneurs from Peace Coffee, Finnegans, and the Union Gospel Mission!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Time: 6pm
Social Science Building Rm: 614

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Come listen to and engage with social entrepreneurs from Peace Coffee, Finnegan's, and the Union Gospel Mission. They will talk about what it means to be a social entrepreneur, career advice for students interested in entrepreneurship and much more!

Panelist include:
- Food Operations General Manager Ben Johnson (Global Studies Alumni) from Union Gospel Mission
-Sales and Customer Service Manager Jody Treter from Peace Coffee
- CEO Jacquie Berglund from Finnegans

This Event is Part of the Global Action Series:
“Global Action” seeks each month to empower students to take action in the areas you will be engaged in after graduation and while in school. This is done through career panels, networking opportunities, organizational site visits, and online media that focus on action,innovation, empowerment,and creativity. We’re excited to have you join us and look forward to your participation.

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Social Entrepreneurship Site-Visit: AfroDeli

Social Entrepreneurship Site-Visit
Featuring: Afro Deli & Coffee/African Development Center

Wednesday, October 12

Time: Meet us there at 3pm

Located: Minutes away from the West Bank Campus

19395th Street S, Minneapolis, MN 55454

Website:http://www.afrodeli.com/

As part of Global Action’s Social Entrepreneurship month, we will have a site-visit at the Afro Deli & Coffee and African Development Center. Afro Deli & Coffee aspires to increase cultural understanding within the Riverside neighborhood and inspire other social ventures by weaving community and business together.

We will be meeting the owner of Afro Deli & Coffee to discuss how local business can bring about empowerment in the community, how to become a social entrepreneur and steps to make a goal become successful. Come to ask question, learn, and become part of a greater movement.

Please RSVP to Jilla Nadimi at nadi0016@umn.edu

Events for October 2011

CLA Language Center Fall Open House-9/27
Global Talk-Iraq: Health Needs and the Role of Nurses-9/27
Explore Study Abroad-Enter the Market-9/27
Center For Health Equity Works in Progress Seminar-9/27
Jason Lewis on Capitalism and Free Markets-9/27
Trade Barriers in China-How the U.S. Government Can Help-9/28
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World-9/28
Special Lecture: Issues and Challenges in India's Unique ID Project-9/28
Health Careers Fair-9/28
Habitat for Humanity General Meeting-9/28
Minnesota International Relations Colloquium Presents Richard Price- "Special Responsibilities in World Politics"-9/29
Slovenia and the EU in the Global World, Twenty Years Later-9/29
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movements: A Radical Democratic Vision-9/29
There's No Place Like Diaspora: Yiddish Musical Films of the 1930s-10/5
Exceptional Life: Moral Statehood and the Politics of HIV Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone-10/6
Shantytown 2011: A Night of Homelessness-10/6
The Humanitarian Perspective- Special Presentation on Libya-10/10
My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights-10/10
Philip Gourevitch Talk: Salvage: Writing About the Aftermaths from Rwanda to Adu Ghraib and Beyond-10/10
The Quality of Women's Employment Around the Globe: The Case of Managerial/ Administrative Occupations, 1984-2003-10/11
Public Policy Speaker Series Presents Professor Frances Lee: Partisan Uncertainty and Senate Floor Debate; 1960-2008-10/13
Doing Business in India-10/13
China's Green Revolution and African Agricultural Development: Dis-Oriented Histories and Misapplied Lessons-A talk by William Moseley-10/14
Arabic Studies and the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern England-10/14
World Food Day Community Sing-10/16
Anthropology and Computer Science Consider Multi Method Data from a Tanzanian Fishing Village-10/17
Muslim Princes and Catholic Sisters: Missionaries as Migrants in 19th Century North Africa, c. 1830-1881-10/17
Immigrant Communities Bringing Civic and Cultural Transformation-10/17
"La Terre Noire": Refurbishing Roads and Encountering Sacred Space in Post-Colonial Dahomey and Benin-10/20
Food Day-University of Minnesota Food Expo-10/24
Emigration and Public History: The View from Hamburg-10/24
A Guantanamo Site of Conscience? Remembering Gitmo long before 9/11-10/25
From a "Moroccan Court" to the "Gardens of Aeolus": Transforming Nature, Culture, and Space in Immigrant Paris-10/28
IATP 25th Anniversary Party-10/28

Events for October

CLA Language Center Fall Open House-9/27
Global Talk-Iraq: Health Needs and the Role of Nurses-9/27
Explore Study Abroad-Enter the Market-9/27