Yunus Social Business Centre At Becker College

VISION, MISSION, WE BELIEVE

The YSBC@BC works to:

• Incubate social business and entrepreneurial ideas and concepts into real world examples of social business and social entrepreneurship;
• Ensure that students know they can change the world for better through the fostering of changemaker skills; capable of taking creative action to address social problems;
• Promote global social business movement through events, lectures, social media, and publications;
• Partner with existing and new non-profits in the community on projects;
• Provide resources for students and facult to operationalize social business/social entrepreneurship and to realize that changemaking is the norm;
• Offer microcredit loans for start-up projects;
• Develop curriculum focused on social innovation; and
• Showcase student projects and faculty research.

Advisory Committee Members:

Dr. David Jordan, Director, Yunus Social Business Centre at Becker College david.jordan@becker.edu; President, Seven Hills Foundation djordan@sevenhills.org

Karen Ansara, Ansara Family Fund

Ken Ansin, Philanthropist/Banker

Michael Canning, Philanthropist/Wealth Advisor

Emmett Carson, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Sheila Davis, Chief Nursing Officer/Partners in Health

William Davis, Philanthropist/Wealth Advisor

Robert Johnson, President/Becker College

Tripp Jones, Social Investment Leader

Andrea Jung, President/Grameen America

Rebecca Miller, The Philanthropic Initiative

Doug Mellinger, Wealth Advisor

Debra Pallatto-Fontaine, Executive Director for Global Initiatives/Becker College

Fernande Raine, Ashoka Foundation