Francy Milner, former CESR Instructor and Associate Director and current member of the External Advisory Board, shared with TiE members how CESR is preparing our students to 鈥渓ead the way鈥� in creating enterprises to solve global social and environmental problems.听听mission is to 鈥渟upport the entrepreneur鈥� via a mentoring program, education and networking.
Francy told the story of Andrea Pauline 鈥� a Leeds student who visited Uganda several years ago in the summer after her junior year and stayed to provide 162 orphans a safe and healthy place to live at Musana Home.听 Now, four years later, it is a successful Community Development Organization that provides boarding and education and is owned and run by the local community. And she mentioned Brett Howell, an MBA grad who became a Walker Conservation Fellow at the Georgia Aquarium and is now working to create conservation markets in the oceans to protect the marine environment.
鈥淭hese are our young entrepreneurs and our hope for a brighter future. To quote Paul Hawken, American environmentalist and social entrepreneur: 鈥業f companies believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers, to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.鈥欌��
In other news鈥ust last week Francy was interviewed by Larry Nelson of听听鈥� Colorado鈥檚 Voice of the Business & Technology Community. She talks about CSR and business ethics: 鈥淲hen we talk about Social Entrepreneurship, it's people who found an enterprise with a social or environmental mission. A purpose to do good. It might be to provide clean water - or access to credit in developing countries for people who don't have that access.鈥� Listen to the 5-minute interview.