Give Work: The Memoir of an Inspiring Social Entrepreneur (Leila Janah)
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy
At SEI we’ve long been admirers of the innovative work of Leila Janah, the founder of Samasource, a social enterprise that provides web-based work for poor young people in the developing world. She has written a new book entitled “Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time”. It’s an insightful, provocative and inspiring read, and a major new contribution to the social enterprise literature. Read more here.

Zipline: Lifesaving Deliveries by Drone
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy
Zipline is a new enterprise that currently uses drones (unmanned air vehicles) to deliver life- saving medicines like vaccines and blood to isolated people in remote areas of Rwanda, and soon Tanzania. While the goals of the founders may one day include expansion to other markets, for now it is focused on creating social impact through enabling access to medicines for underserved communities in the developing world. Read more here.

Cozy Up in Punjammies for the Holidays
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy
We have a wonderful student here at NU working with a local partner to help improve the lives of children of prostitutes in the red-light district near Pune, India. Her commitment to these children is deeply felt, humbly offered, and very inspiring.

This student’s work led me to a previously unfamiliar benefit corporation working in the space of human trafficking and slavery in India, and specifically providing living wage work for poor women recently freed from slavery as sex workers. India is reported to have more than 14 million people living in slavery, mostly women and children, amounting to nearly half of the world total. Read more here.

Northeastern Hosts 14th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference
by Sophie Bacq and Alex Castillo
On November 2 and 3, Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business hosted the 14 th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference in partnership with USC Marshall School of Business. During two days, 90 researchers from 16 countries around the world presented and discussed their latest research on a variety of topics that included social entrepreneurship and development, outcomes and measurement, ecosystems and social entrepreneurship across contexts, to name a few. More than 50 students attended at least one session. One of them, Alex Castillo, shares
with you his takeaways from the conference. Read more here.

Sanergy: Making Hygienic Sanitation Affordable and Accessible
By Archana Apte
SEI recently had the pleasure of bringing in Sanergy’s co-founder and CEO, David Auerbach, to speak at Northeastern. This for-profit social enterprise brings carefully designed portable toilet units to disadvantaged people in urban slums, particularly Nairobi, Kenya. Read more here.

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