    |
Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
The second event in our Doug and Andrea Forester Speaker Series on Entrepreneurship for the Public Good was held on April 18.
Speakers:
Joseph Plumeri, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Willis Group
Larry Reed, Chief Executive Officer of the Opportunity International Network
Joan Verplanck, President, The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
Moderator:
Tom Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Princeton Partners
The Doug and Andrea Forrester Speaker Series on Entrepreneurship for the Public Good offers opportunites for students to learn from entrepreneurs and experts on entrepreneurship. We feature entrepreneurs who will share their experiences with the campus and community about their innovative work to create and sustain organizations that benefit the public good.
The Program in Entrepreneurship for the Public Good works to 1) provide students with an understanding of public entrepreneurship and to 2) support the efforts of public entrepreneurs in our community.
The program is a recent addition to the work of the Center. It began with a newly developed course sequence in social entrepreneurship that brought students together with community organizations to create enterprise plans. Three student teams worked on social enterprise plans during fall 2005. Each team was composed of students at TCNJ who completed the first course in a two course sequence in social entrepreneurship this spring. They focused on learning about social entrepreneurship and acquiring the core analytic concepts and skills necessary to plan a social enterprise. Last fall, they worked collaboratively with leaders from area nonprofit partners to produce plans for new enterprise ideas that have been identified by the nonprofit. As the major part of its work for the second semester, each student team delivered its plan to the organization in December. The student teams were supervised by David Prensky, the instructor of the two course sequence. The syllabus from the 2005 social entrepreneurship courses is available here.
