Evans Social Enterprise

What happens to sales when companies play a role in activism? Does taking a stance on social and environmental issues help or hurt businesses?

Join us on Wednesday, March 6th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business to hear a live discussion on the answers to these questions, new findings from Global Strategy Group’s Annual Business and Politics Report, and much more on the role that activism plays in changing the landscape of business.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-panel-when-customers-get-political-tickets-56538966571

Our panel of industry experts includes:

- Virginia Tenpenny, VP Global Social Impact and ED of Starbucks Foundation
- Kirk Myers, Director of Sustainability, Alaska Airlines
- Christina Page, Climate Action Director, City of Seattle, and Former Head of Environmental Sustainability at Yahoo!
- Sarah Severn, Principal at Sarah Severn Consulting, and Former Senior Director Systems Innovation, Sustainable Business and Innovation at Nike
- Moderators: Alli Green and Austin Morton, UW Net Impact Co-Presidents

This event is limited to 150 seats and is a unique opportunity to hear from industry experts and dive into new research findings from the Business and Politics Report from Global Strategy Group (GSG). This event is brought to you by the Foster Net Impact Club and the Foster Business & Policy Group.

Are you interested in making a positive impact at UW and beyond?

Do you wish you had more opportunities to work with people from diverse disciplines?

Evans Social Enterprise is rebranding to Husky Social Innovation: a graduate student organization at UW dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration to achieve social impact. We’re building a multi-disciplinary membership to participate in collaborative projects and events that connect students to ideas, resources, and professionals that increase their ability to bring about positive change.

We’re recruiting members for the 2018-2019 academic year and would like to invite you to participate!

Please click below to indicate your interest, and feel free to share with other graduate students.

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Great short-notice event going on tomorrow evening from 6-9p at the University of Washington Foster School of Business in Anthony's Forum in PACCAR Hall. Evans School classmates are more than welcome! The more the merrier.

Stoked for this combined, cross-disciplinary team that made it to the finals of the Patagonia case competition!! Big payoff from our humble team formation night back in December.

Shout out to Bryan Young, Lyndsay Gordon, Olivia Jacobs, Nick Ferderer, and Austin Morton for all the effort and hard work that went into their submission!! Hopefully we'll run it back next year and take home a "W" for UW.

Congrats to team UW United from the University of Washington for being a finalist in the Patagonia 2018 Case Competition! Only TWO more days until UW United and all the other finalists teams present their solutions on to Patagonia judges at Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley on 4/20:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-patagonia-case-competition-finals-tickets-44086318365

IDEO's Jason Rissman will be speaking in Professor Badshah’s class on Mon, 4/2, at 2:30p in Parrington Hall, Room 308—and guests are invited to attend. Jason plans to speak from 2:30-3:30p after which the class will break out into groups and workshop some ideas. Guests will be able to form their own teams and stay through the end of the exercise and debrief (5:20p).

I know this is not an ideal time slot for some—but for those who think they can make it, please RSVP below to give Prof. Badshah an idea of how many outside guests to expect.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ACNZfq737RywKk33Qez1wbQkbxcFw6Im3sIZXHaC7aM/edit?usp=sharing

Big thanks to Evans School Career Development, Alex, and Vivian for organizing today's panel!

If today lit your fire for social innovation, check out this spring course taught by Akhtar Badshah. Several club members took it last year and loved it! Hit us up with any questions.

Great event upcoming with Professor Scott Allard at the Husky Union Building, Rm 334, on 11/15 from 5-6:30p.

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, will speak with Professor Allard about who can apply the principles of entrepreneurship to build happier, more productive lives--and who gets left behind.

Find the sign up link on the Evans School calendar here: https://evans.uw.edu/about/events-calendar #/?i=1

Reception with light refreshments to follow.

In preparation for our speaker event with Aaron Hurst next week on 10/19, 6-8p, in PACCAR Hall Rm 390, check out his video about the emerging Purpose Economy from Big Think below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVDtdKMDI4

Official event invite forthcoming! We're partnering with University of Washington Foster School Net Impact Club and Evans School Nonprofit Network to put on a great event. Hope to see you all there!

Also, check out Aaron's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Economy-Personal-Community-Changing/dp/1937498298.

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As a reminder of Professor Badshah's upcoming event on social transformation, check out his most recent article on Medium:

Spawning Salmons, Not Creating Whales: A New Paradigm for Accelerating Social Transformation. Akhtar Badshah, Curator, Accelerating Social Transformation

"Uncertainty is definitely unsettling, but the really strong organizations will turn that into opportunity. In many respects, now is a tremendous time to innovate, to explore different service models, or experiment with alternative funding approaches. Change opens up the system and creates an environment where the unexpected may not get rejected just because it is different. Unrest creates cracks in doors that in the past were closed shut and locked"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-social-entrepreneurs-can-navigate-shark-filled-waters-robbie-bach

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Navigate Shark-Filled Waters Perhaps it goes without saying that we are in the midst of a period of dramatic change, and indeed social conflict. I don’t mean this as a political

Awesome talk from Daniela Papi Thornton about how social enterprise can be co-opted by for-profit business principles and detract from systems change. Design your social enterprise to suit the problem you want to solve not just to grow your social business.

https://youtu.be/RdrfMqBRfEQ

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