STUDENTS
GLOBAL SOCIAL BENEFIT FELLOWSHIP
Action Research for Social Justice
Fellowship Alumni
University Valedictorians
Fulbright Scholars
Total Action Research Projects
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Action Research with Social Enterprises
Miller Center accelerates leadership by providing students opportunities to learn and work with social entrepreneurs on the front lines of poverty eradication and sustainable development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The fellowship is a fully-funded summer field experience along with two-quarters of classwork and academic research for Santa Clara University junior-level students.
Action
Research Model
The action research model of our fellowship simultaneously supports rigorous, transformative undergraduate student learning and the scaling of social enterprises in developing countries that participate in our world-class accelerator programs. Action research is a practice-led approach that emphasizes learning from working with social enterprises. This provides a robust value exchange between students and social enterprises.
Recognition
Ashoka U awarded our fellowship the Cordes Innovation Award in Academic Student Learning for 2017. This is the most prestigious award in social enterprise higher education.
Projects for 2021
Regardless of the pandemic, the fellowship will run in 2021. We have designed 2021 action research projects to be conducted via remote engagement (e.g., via Zoom) without the immersive component of travel to the field. All applicants should enter and proceed through the application process with the assumption that no international field placements are currently planned. However, with the deployment of Covid vaccines, domestic projects placements are very possible during 2021, although their configuration and timing is contingent upon local conditions and university travel policy. For more information see attached info sheet “Remote engagement action research projects” and attend an information session (register your interest to receive an invitation).
Development In Gardening (DIG)
DIG is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of the world’s ultra-vulnerable by teaching them to plant sustainable gardens
Innovation Works
To reduce Baltimore’s racial wealth divide by teaching and accompanying members of disinvested communities to build and own successful social enterprises.
NUCAFE
To establish a sustainable market-driven system of coffee farmer enterprises and organizations
Oorja Development Solutions
To provide integrated energy solutions to replace diesel engines used along the agricultural value chain
NemoCare Wellness
To end all preventable neonatal and maternal deaths in the developing world by building innovative affordable, accessible, highly accurate monitoring solutions
Sisters Blended Value Project
To promote the sharing of spiritual, human and economic resources among Catholic Sisters to enhance religious formation and strengthen leadership.
Access Afya
Creating access to quality healthcare for the global mass market through sustainable care models.
StreetWell
To provide transitional employment and housing opportunities for marginalized populations that create long-term health and wealth building
COMPLETED WORK
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Honors Thesis Work
Pathways to Accelerate Social Enterprises that use Mobile Information Communication Technology
Social Enterprise Acceleration Services for Sub-Saharan African Health: Positive Impacts of New Program Innovations
Understanding Sanitation Preferences: A Human Centered Approach to Tackling India’s Open Defecation Crisis
Women’s Agency for Ghanaian Agricultural Development
The Future of Solar Microgrids in Sub-Saharan Africa: How social enterprises can accelerate the spread of renewable energy to off-grid communities
Would Paul Farmer like BanaPads? An Assessment of Social Enterprise as a Women’s Health Intervention
Women’s Livelihood Creation and the Affiliation Capability: A Critical Programmatic Analysis
Jesse Caemmerer, SCU Political Science, 2014
Social Entrepreneurship and Jesuit Social Ministries: A New Path of Liberation. A thesis in partial fulfillment of a Sacred Theology Licentiate at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
Cost-effective Health Interventions for Improved Education and Employment: An Integrated Approach to Development
The Potential of Agroforestry to Reduce Energy Poverty and Environmental Degradation in Rural Zambia
Savings and the Poor: A Review of Savings Products Offered by Microfinance Institutions