Social Innovation Lab
An Entrepreneurial Social Impact Internship
Are you ready for the future? This virtual internship program is for those looking to:
build future skills like innovation, creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence so you are ready for the new world
have meaningful impact by working with inspiring social enterprises across Asia
build entrepreneurship skills to lauch a new product or venture in the field of social entrepreneurship
build your community by becoming part of a network of social entrepreneurs across Asia
build future skills like innovation, creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence so you are ready for the new world
have meaningful impact by working with inspiring social enterprises across Asia
build entrepreneurship skills to lauch a new product or venture in the field of social entrepreneurship
build your community by becoming part of a network of social entrepreneurs across Asia
build future skills like innovation, creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence so you are ready for the new world
have meaningful impact by working with inspiring social enterprises across Asia
build entrepreneurship skills to lauch a new product or venture in the field of social entrepreneurship
build your community by becoming part of a network of social entrepreneurs across Asia
Authentica and BoP Hub have jointly created this
program to equip you with tools to:
Identify a business idea to solve a social issue
Build a social venture / product to solve the issue
Launch the social venture / product and create impact!
Build skills and impact lives at the Base-of-the-Pyramid!
About the Program
This 4-week intensive online program provides you with essential skills for starting or leading a social venture serving the base of the pyramid. You will work in teams on an idea for a new venture/product proposed by host organizations and develop plans for launching the idea. Alternatively, you can work on your own social enterprise idea on the program.
Academic and industry experts will help you develop skills critical to your success, such as: operating under ambiguity, understanding world views, driving innovation, securing buy-in, and making change happen. You will be provided with expert guidance and feedback to refine the business idea and strategy.
Duration
4 Weeks
Cost
USD 1550 / AUD 2000 per person
Eligibility
Undergraduate students from any discipline with a minimum GPA of 2.5 or equivalent
Program Dates
28 June - 23 July 2021
2 Aug - 27 Aug 2021
Duration
4 Weeks
Cost
$2000 pp
Eligibility
Undergraduate students from any discipline with a minimum GPA of 2.5 or equivalent
Learning Outcomes
Supported learning outcomes include:
Understand
Understanding the role of social entrepreneurship in addressing the needs of the base of the pyramid
Learn
Learn how social enterprises serving the base of the pyramid operate and the strategies they use to ensure the greatest impact
Pitch
Develop a business plan and investment ‘pitch’ for launching a social enterprise serving the base of the pyramid
Execute
Develop professional and personal skills required to run a social enterprise successfully
Program Video
Empower yourself with the tools to succeed in the new world
Next Steps
1
Select your preferred date for the program
2
Complete your FREE online application
3
Accept your place when admitted into the program
Program Content
You will be working in teams on your assigned projects during the entire 4 weeks. In addition to the project work, you’ll have two 90 min live online interactions each week with faculty and industry experts. In addition to these sessions, there would be regular meetings with mentors, host organizations and team members for working on the project.
Program Modules:
- Orientation
- Panel session by leaders from social enterprises across the globe
- Securing buy-in and making change happen
- Social, political and economic context of project and country
- Understanding world views and developing empathy
- Strategy for driving innovation
- Meeting needs of the base of the pyramid
- Final Presentation
Meet the Faculty
Jack Sim, aka “Mr Toilet” is a leading global advocate for sanitation and the founder of the World Toilet Organization and the BoP Hub. Jack received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2001), the Ashok Global Fellowship and Time Magazines’ Heroes of the Environment award (2008.) He is also a key member of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. He built an SDG Center in Singapore to help transform the 4 billion poor into a massively efficient marketplace to end global poverty. He has a Masters in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Dr. Anitha Ramanna designs and delivers experiential learning programs at Authentica. She was a Fulbright Scholar affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University and a C.R. Parekh fellow with the London School of Economics. She has a doctorate in International Studies and a Post-Doctoral fellowship from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. She taught and led research at S P Jain School of Global Management, Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and University of Pune.
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