Teaching HS students social entrepreneurship

Summary

This project provides a nationally accredited Social Entrepreneurship course available online to 24,000 American high schools.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $10,830 was raised for this project.

Received $10,830 from 10 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Traditional institutions don't adequately address rising social, health, economic, education, and environmental problems, but social entrepreneurs are. This accredited online course on Social Entrepreneurship, available to all 24,000 American high schools, will help teach the next generation real-world skills, knowledge and methods for solving these problems.

Activities

An online, accredited course in Social Entrepreneurship will give high school students a way to solve social and environmental problems in their communities that they themselves identify, plan, initiate, and execute in measurable ways.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $10,830

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $10,830. The original project funding goal was $330,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Each student taking the course will be able to identify, plan, initiate, and execute a community-based project or internship with observable, measurable outcomes and report their results, perhaps even leading to career in the field.

Project Message

"This will not only help save the earth and our neighbors whom we live with, it empowers us to make decisions that will give purpose to our lives."
- Erinne DeGroff, Student, New York Institute of Technology