Incoming students: please see the information below for an exciting opportunity at the HNC this year!
Start
planning now, and you could win up to $30,000*
to make a lasting, positive impact with your cross-cultural experience and
education at the Hopkins–Nanjing Center!
Training
This
fall, the Hopkins–Nanjing Center (HNC) is collaborating with the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Leadership Education (JHU CLE) to offer mentorship in
entrepreneurship and business planning. A CLE entrepreneurship faculty member
will offer a biweekly seminar over video-conference for HNC and JHU students
interested in participating in the Competition. The seminar is not for credit
and will not count toward HNC credit requirements.
Competition
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| Hassenfeld team members present in 2012 |
In the
spring, the HNC and JHU CLE will offer the fourth annual Hassenfeld Social
Enterprise Fund Competition (Hassenfeld SEF). HNC students will have the
opportunity to team up with each other and with students from other JHU
divisions to design and implement a business plan for the common good in China.
Each competing team must include at least two HNC students, at least one of
them Chinese and one of them non-Chinese. Both M.A.I.S. students and
Certificate students may participate. Teams will develop project proposals
together and present them in several stages to a panel of judges. The winning plan
will receive funding from the Hassenfeld Social Enterprise Fund.
Past
winners have built an online bilingual resource for the Chinese and
international business community (http://nanjingconnect.com/) and an online platform to connect
people interested in volunteering with charities and non-profit organizations
in Nanjing (http://nanjingvolunteers.org/). Last year’s winners are developing
computer software to train corporate employees in China on corporate responsibility.
Your project could focus on something completely different! A social
enterprise:
a)
Directly
addresses an intractable social need and serves the common good, either through
its products and services or through its business and employment outcomes,
b)
Derives
strong revenue from its commercial activity, whether within a nonprofit’s mixed
revenue portfolio or through a for-profit enterprise, and,
*Initial award will not exceed
$10,000, though teams have the ability to win follow-on funding based on
project success. Award depends on plan quality and fund availability at the
discretion of the Competition’s Selection Committee.
**Definition
adapted from the Social Enterprise Alliance (https://www.se-alliance.org/). The Hassenfeld
Social Enterprise Competition, the Hopkins–Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins
University are not directly affiliated with the Social Enterprise Alliance, and
reference to it does not imply those institutions’ endorsement of the Social
Enterprise Alliance’s views or activities.
