Accelerating entrepreneurship to end global poverty and protect the planet

Guest Blog by Lucie Ellis, Marketing & Communications Intern, Beneficial Returns Milly is a mother and farmer who lives in northern Uganda. Until 2019, Milly walked the long trek to the market as often as she could to sell her crops of corn and soybeans, yet her family still lived in poverty. Then, in 2019,

In the first year of our programming after COVID-19, Miller Center observed that the needs of social enterprises we have been serving for the last 20 years have changed. One of the first signs of the shift we noticed was a decrease in demand for our accelerator programs by non-startups. Our natural demand is around

“You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.” —Chanel Miller Last week, we had the honor of seeing Chanel Miller, author of “Know My Name“, speak to an audience of Santa Clara University students, faculty, and staff. Her memoir, which was