The School of Social Work is hosting a Public Engagement Speaker Series on “Creating Sustainability Enterprises.”
The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held on Mondays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Room 500 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building (School of Social Work) at 325 Pittsboro Street.
January 24: “History and Evolution of the Sustainability Movement”
Frank Phoenix, Fenwick Foundation, Partner in Greenbridge Development
January 31: “Sustainability, the Triple Bottom Line, and Green Plus”
Aaron Nelson, Ford Foundation Fellow for Regional Sustainable Development, Institute for Sustainable Development, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
February 7: “Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise”
Chris Gergen, Bull City Forward, Duke University Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative, author of Life Entrepreneur
February 21: “How Community Institutions and Major Employers Are Responding to Sustainability”
Chapel Hill–Carrboro City Schools (Certified Green Plus), UNC Health Care, iContact, City of Durham, Chatham County
March 14: “The Rise of the Fourth Sector and Social Enterprise”
Heerad Sabeti, Convening Trustee of the Fourth Sector Network
Jon Parker, Co-Chair, NC Fourth Sector Cluster Initiative and Executive Director of Good Work
March 21: “State of Community Report and Identifying our Local Challenges”
Aaron Nelson
March 28: “A Participatory Model of Sustainable Development”
Gary Nelson, Associate Director, Jordan Institute for Families; Co-Founder, Institute for Sustainable Development
Chris Howell, Clinical Instructor, Jordan Institute for Families
April 4: “Creating a Business Plan for Sustainable Development, Community Development Organizations and Social Enterprise”
Carl Baumann, Durham Technical Community College; Senior Counselor, SCORE
April 18: “The Leadership Dimension of Sustainable Development”
Gary Nelson and Aaron Nelson
For more information on this series, contact Gary Nelson.