Impact is the social entrepreneurship club at Claremont McKenna College, designed by and for students! Do you care about the world around you?
Our mission is to train, support, connect and empower CMC students to maximize their ability to create the change they wish to see in the world. Does just caring, and not actually doing, seem problematic to you? Do you ever wonder how you could affect change in areas like climate change, food insecurity, and access to education, to name a few? If you answered yes, then Impact is the club for you.
02/24/2017
Thank you to everyone who came to the Food Solutions Challenge last night! We had participants across class years and backgrounds, which made for a robust case competition with unique and viable solutions for reducing carbon emissions throughout all stages of the food supply chain.
09/25/2016
Come learn more about impACT and how you can make a difference not just at CMC, but in the world!! It's a quick meeting AND we'll have treats!
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Please fill out this WhenIsGood so we can find a meeting time that works for all folks interested in being a part of impACT this year!
WhenIsGood: impACT meeting time Plan the time to have your meeting or event by co-ordinating availability with all the particpants using this fuss-free online tool.
07/01/2016
Thrive Market is on a mission to make health living easy, affordable, and accessible for every American family. This socially conscious startup has launched a campaign to bring food stamps online, a step that would give individuals living in food deserts, lacking access to healthy food choices, the ability to order these products online from a store like Thrive Market, which offers thousands of natural and organic products at wholesale prices delivered straight to customers' doors.
Thrive Action - Thrive Market Shop the best healthy, natural, non-GMO, organic, vegan, raw, Paleo, gluten-free, and non-toxic items from the top-selling brands at wholesale prices.
06/30/2016
Check out this great talk by Achenyo Idachaba, a green entrepreneur who is transforming Nigerian communities:
How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business The water hyacinth may look like a harmless, even beautiful flowering plant -- but it's actually an invasive aquatic w**d that clogs waterways, stopping trade, interrupting schooling and disrupting everyday life. In this scourge, green entrepreneur Achenyo Idachaba saw opportunity. Follow her journe...
11/07/2015
impACT crew at the Net Impact Conference in Seattle!
Come find out more info about the Hult Prize tonight!
https://www.facebook.com/events/926274610798751/
10/13/2015
Interested in finding out how your environment can impair your health? What are the consequences of living near busy roads and traffic pollution?
http://usceh.blogspot.com/p/living-near-busy-roads-or-highways.html
10/12/2015
Wondering what environmental justice is? Watch Majora Carter explain as she sheds light on the intersectionality between socioeconomic and environmental issues.
"Unfortunately, race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities. As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health." Click play to hear more!
https://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal?language=en -210933
Greening the ghetto In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.
12/07/2014
Looking for jobs or a social internship? Consider exploring opportunities in social impact and innovation!
Social Impact Jobs December 2014 | Echoing Green At Echoing Green, our work brings together a diverse swath of people, organizations, and thought leaders to support a global social change movement driven by entrepreneurial ideas and bold action. One of the principles that steers the growth of this movement is a willingness to take risks. I believe…
12/06/2014
"But let's remember that in Ferguson there are changemakers for the good championing creative ideas to bring the U.S. to a better place" What are your thoughts of this article?
In the wake of the events in Ferguson, Changemakers are showing a better way | Ashoka -... With the events in Ferguson, MO dominating the news and the national conversation, it's easy to feel powerless, and cynical. But let's remember that in communities like Ferguson -- and similar ones all across the U.S. -- there are changemakers for the good championing creative ideas to bring the U.S…
12/05/2014
Shout out to all the CMC students participating in the Hult Prize! The event takes place on Saturday. Best of luck, CMC!