Force for Positive Change

Force for Positive Change

Marquette University and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have opened applications for the second annual Force for Positive Change award, a statewide competition that focuses on social entrepreneurship. If you or your organization are solving social or environmental challenges in a way that is sustainable, just and generates impact in Wisconsin, take this is for you. 

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Writing Innovation Symposium

This symposium is an opportunity to explore—and expand—our capacity for writing education.  Writing is a means of dreaming, seeking, synthesizing, and sharing ideas and information. The symposium celebrates courses, assignments, and instructional resources that colleagues from Marquette and across the country have created and implemented in an effort to improve writing education and use it as an agent of change at our universities and beyond.

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Boost

The Boost program helps participants learn business fundamentals, improve their strategic thinking and articulate a business plan that demonstrates impact, growth and long-term financial sustainability. To date, 23 organizations have completed the Boost program.

Apply to the next Social Innovation or Near West Side Boost.

 

Rev-Up MKE

Rev-Up MKE

The Rev-Up MKE small business competition provides an opportunity for start-up entrepreneurs to expand or start a business and get the support needed to make it successful. As part of the competition, finalists receive hands-on business training, with technical assistance and mentorship. The program culminates with a live pitch event before a panel of judges and the community. The final winner receives significant resources to support their new venture, which will be located in a Near West Side storefront.

Sign up to be a part of the next Rev-Up MKE competition.

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Changemaker Campus

Marquette University is one of 37 universities worldwide identified as an Ashoka U Changemaker Campus and the only school in the Midwest to earn the designation. Ashoka U is an initiative of Ashoka, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs.

Midwest Jesuit Collaborative on Social Innovation

The institutions—John Carroll University, Loyola University Chicago, Saint Louis University, Xavier University, Creighton University, University of Detroit Mercy and Marquette University—are part of the Midwest Jesuit Collaborative on Social Innovation (J-COSI). The idea for J-COSI grew out of a partnership between Marquette University and the University of Detroit Mercy with the Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI) at Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and a desire to accelerate the adoption of social innovation and entrepreneurship best practices at Midwestern Jesuit universities. Marquette hosted the first gathering of the universities during the summer of 2016.