10/20/11
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Rodney Willett |
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Martha Rollins |
Randolph-Macon College will celebrate Social Entrepreneurship Week October 24-27, 2011.
Social entrepreneurs solve problems on a large scale. Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs aim to generate "social value" rather than profits. And unlike most non-profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change.
“Social Entrepreneurship Week is a great opportunity for our students, and our surrounding community, to discover the exciting ways that local innovators are working to make the world a better place," says R-MC
Political Science Professor Richard Meagher. "These programs bring us face to face with fantastic people who, when faced with seemingly intractable problems, roll up their sleeves and go to work solving them."
Come learn more about this exciting approach to service and helping the community.
Monday, October 24 Impact Makers: A New Business Model Rodney Willett, Impact Makers
7:00 p.m. Topping Room of Old Chapel (Room 212)
Rodney Willett is vice president, Business Strategy for Impact Makers, a Richmond-based IT consulting firm. Impact Makers competes head-to-head for contracts in the highly competitive professional services consulting world, with one critical difference: profits, by corporate charter, go directly to its non-profit community partners.
Tuesday, October 25
Stacey Luks,
SlowFood RVA
12:00 p.m. Estes Dining Hall
Fill up your plate and come join us in the Estes “Fishbowl”! Local food activist Stacey Luks will discuss the international Slow Food movement, and suggest some ways that we can champion local foods and their sources, producers and historical traditions, thus promoting sustainability and preserving biodiversity.
Wednesday, October 26 “Haustalk”: Solving Problems Through Design John O’Neill and Jill Wagner of Thinkhaus Design
7:30 p.m. Fox Hall 106
Join John O’Neill and Jill Wagner, the partners of socially conscious design firm Thinkhaus, for an informative “haustalk.” John and Jill will explain how our society is looking to design to solve problems in business that will result in a better quality of life for all.
Thursday, October 27 Social Entrepreneurship Martha Rollins, Boaz & Ruth
7:00 p.m. Topping Room of Old Chapel (Room 212)
Martha Rollins is founder, CEO, and self-described “head cheerleader” for Boaz & Ruth, a non-profit located in Richmond’s historic Highland Park neighborhood. Boaz & Ruth helps some of the 200 people released from prison each week in the Richmond area, spurs commercial rehabilitation in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and forms healing cross-cultural bridges in our racially divided city.
All events are free* and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
*Slow Food RVA event requires meal plan or meal purchase.
Social Entrepreneurship Week is made possible by the generous support of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation. For more information, contact Richard Meagher at
richardmeagher@rmc.edu or (804) 752-7232.