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For 25 years, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship has been a leader in the global social enterprise movement. With an emphasis on climate resilience and women’s economic empowerment, we accelerate social entrepreneurship to end poverty and protect the planet. Located at Santa Clara University, we have served more than 1,300 social entrepreneurs based in over 100 countries that have impacted hundreds of millions of lives. We fuse the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley with the university’s heritage of social justice, community engagement, and global impact, guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship - August 12, 2017

What does it mean to be a women?

By: Nithya Vemireddy, 2017 Global Social Benefit Fellow

“Guess it’s just us two females hanging out in a crowd of just males once again.” This common phrase was jokingly uttered between Maya and I multiple times throughout our field research in India. Gender inequality is not a new concept to me; it is something I have become very conscious of every summer spent in India. Even though gender inequality exists in America, it is more apparent here in India. Everywhere men dominate public spaces while most women stay inside their houses.
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Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship - April 10, 2017

Alizeti

When Lindsey and I first arrived in Tanzania, we drove past endless fields of sunflowers stretching alongside the two-lane highway bound for Arusha, a city in northern Tanzania. A week later, the same sunflowers or “alizeti” as they are called in Swahili, bid us farewell as we headed into the rural areas of the country. It finally felt real—after preparing for the past three months, we were headed out to meet face-to-face with Solar Sister entrepreneurs, their customers, and their communities.
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Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship - April 10, 2017

Action Research Open House

Inventing portable solar-powered coolers to store nutritious dairy products in remote communities off the electric grid in rural Mexico. Investigating how best to identify tuberculosis cases in Southeast Asia through the use of data science. Using mobile-mapping technology and marketing to recruit more students and tutors to a successful program for disadvantaged youth in South Africa.
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