This Week In Social Entrepreneurship: Events, Opportunities, News, Insights & More

Events

COVID-19 & Beyond — Innovation For Social Good Challenge

Applications close June 5

Free

Intervention and creativity are needed to curb the social costs of the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19 & Beyond — Innovation For Social Good Challenge gives professionals, startups, and SMEs across the world an opportunity to tackle the biggest social challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants tackle one or more of these challenges:

• Neighborhood Communities
• Migrant Workers Access
• Food Rescue
• Supply Chain Resources
• Workforce Optimisation
• Community Engagement

Finalists team can gain access to business and tech mentors, design thinking consultants as well as prototyping equipment and usability testing lab in IMDA’s Singapore innovation facility, PIXEL. Finalists for each challenge will receive SGD 4,500 to kickstart prototype development. Final winners will be contacted directly by problem statement owners to receive further awards of SGD 10,500.

Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imda-covid-19-beyond-innovation-for-social-good-tickets-105044741650?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Systems Change 101

Empowering Effective Actions for Social Change

Tue 30th Jun 2020, 4:00 pm — Tue 11th Aug 2020, 11:00 pm AEST

$280 AUD

To transform society, we must address the root and underlying issues causing problems. Systems Change 101 is a 7-week live social change empowerment course that will develop your capacity for positive change-making. You will learn how to apply your existing skills, passions, and current life circumstance to affect real change in the world.

The course is presented by Erfan Daliri, an author, poet, social change trainer, and consultant with a Masters in Communication for Social Change.

Whether you are working in the service provision sector, social enterprise, advocacy, activism, or grassroots community change, this program will give you the ability to maximize the impact of your efforts.

The course includes:

• 7 x weekly 75min live video calls with Q&A (every Tuesday)
• One-on-One mentorship and tutoring from Erfan
• Course readings and supporting video content
• Worksheets with study guide provided
• Ongoing access to the alumni community
• Free access to all recording lectures

Learn more at https://events.humanitix.com/systems-change-101-empowering-effective-actions-for-social-change-june

Opportunities

Social entrepreneurs need financial and non-financial assistance as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Social Traders has created a list of support and resources to assist social entrepreneurs during this time.

Do you need assistance in any of the following areas?

• Remote working
• Workplace Law
• Mental and Emotional Wellbeing
• Staffing
• Legal
• Strategy, business planning, and innovating your business model
• Funding

Social Traders provide resources in all of these areas and more. Learn more at https://www.socialtraders.com.au/coronavirus-support-and-resources-for-social-enterprises/

Microsoft Global Social Entrepreneurship

Bring your big vision to life! Microsoft Global Entrepreneurship Programs support social impact startups with technology, connections, and grants. Favoring enterprise technology or B2B startups who can best serve Microsoft’s customer base, the program is open to startups that have existed for less than seven years, earn less than $25M in total annual revenue, and are Seed, Series, A, B, or C Stage.

Program participants are eligible for:

• Grants (for ventures innovating in skills development, sustainability and accessibility.)
• Connections with large commercial, public sector, NGOs, as well as other startups in the social impact space
• Access to Microsoft technologies, including Azure cloud and GitHub Enterprise
• Go-To-Market resources to help startups sell alongside Microsoft’s global sales team and partner channel

Learn more and apply at https://startups.microsoft.com/en-us/social-entrepreneurship/.

Courses

The editorial website that serves businesses, CO, shares four courses to help social entrepreneurs increase their business acumen. Here’s a brief summary of the courses:

Unite For Sight Social Entrepreneurship Course

Free, self-paced certificate program that offers the basics of social entrepreneurship in nine short modules.

Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities

In this five-week, $49 USD Coursera course, participants learn how to identify the specific social problem they’d like to help solve and how to create a profitable business that successfully addresses the problem.

Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators

In this four-week, $49 USD Coursera Course, participants turn their passion for changing the world into concrete, actionable business plans for launching a venture designed to achieve a social goal.

Social Entrepreneurship: How To Launch a Lean Startup You Love

In this three-and-a-half-hour $15 USD Udemy video course, participants learn how to secure their social enterprise’s first paying customers.

Learn more at https://www.uschamber.com/co/good-company/growth-studio/online-classes-for-social-entrepreneurs