COMMUNITY UPDATES
Society and Business Fellow Rachel Pedowitz (MBA/MSW '16) recently accepted a social enterprise marketing specialist position with the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic. She will promote accessibility and awareness of early intervention best practices.
Society and Business Scholar Angie Kim (B.A.'14) completed her third Global Microfinance Brigade to Ghana. She worked with several families in Ekumfi Ebuakwa to develop their financial plans and identify business ideas that could be established as social enterprises.
Jonathan Parfrey, Senior Fellow and the executive director at Climate Resolve, worked to successfully update the Municipal Building Code. The code, passed unanimously by LA City Council in December, now mandates cool roofs on all new residential buildings.In December, Senior Fellow Laura Rubbo traveled to the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland to be the US business representative at an "experts meeting" on corporate social responsibility initiatives and their relationship to national labor inspection systems and the work of the ILO. Senior Fellow Sally Lee recently aided in the launch of Warner Bros. Entertainment's new Corporate Responsibility website.
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Design for America Info Session Dates: Monday, January 27th (7PM) & Monday, February 3rd (6:30PM)Location: THH 119 More Information
Microfinance Club Info SessionDates: Wednesday, January 29th (6:30PM) & Monday, February 3rd (8:00PM) Location: 1/29: HOH 305, 2/3: HOH 306 More InformationSafari of the Soul: The Quest for Water in Africa Date: Wednesday, February 12thTime: 7:00PMLocation: Town and Gown More InformationLost Borders, Water, Climate Change, and the West Date: Tuesday, February 25th Time: 7:00PM Location: Doheny Library 240 More InformationUSC Alumni Women's Conference Date: Thursday, March 6th Time: 9AM-5PM Location: UPC Campus More Information
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CONFERENCE OPPORTUNITIES
NCIIA Annual ConferenceDates: March 21-22 Location: San Jose, CA More Information Global Health and Innovation Conference Dates: April 12-13 Location: New Haven, CT More Information
Social Enterprise Alliance -- Summit 2014
Dates: April 13-16 Location: Nashville, TN More Information
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HOT TOPICS
What's trending in social entrepreneurship
Sarah Soule, a professor at Stanford, discusses design thinking as a valuable tool for social entrepreneurs solving the world's most pressing problems. 
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POP QUIZ
Q&A with a social changemaker Edward Belden
Peddler's Creamery produces high quality artisan bicycle-churned organic dairy and non-dairy ice cream and frozen desserts for Los Angeles. They are a benefit corporation that donates 5% of their profits to social and environmental causes.
Time for a vacation. Beach or mountains?
Mountains; for a chance to climb to new heights, get a new perspective on the world below, and take in a deep breath of fresh air!
Who is your social enterprise "crush" of the moment?
Fill in the blank: I'd get arrested protesting ____.
Our right to know what's in our food.
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