The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is offering a social entrepreneurship certificate program aimed to educate interested individuals on business ventures focused on building social value rather than only profit.
 The certificate program is intended to provide information on social entrepreneurship course enhancements for current faculty and to aid local non-profit leaders and social entrepreneurs in expanding social ventures. Via eight modules of three-hour seminars, the program will train students on every necessary facet of social venture development.
To administer the first three modules, the USASBE is collaborating with the University of Missouri – Kansas City and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to hold the Third Annual Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship from May 18 – May 19.
The event will allow attendees to complete the first three of eight modules within the certificate program. Attendees will learn concepts including common challenges faced while developing social ventures, options for revenue creation within social ventures and ideas on communicating the necessary fundamentals of social entrepreneurship courses.Modules four through six will be offered at the USASBE 2016 Conference in San Diego, California. Modules seven and eight will be offered in Kansas City in May 2016.
The curriculum, developed by top faculty in Social Entrepreneurship, will include several exclusive academic resources including cases, articles, annotated bibliographies of literature with links to on-line resources, Powerpoint presentations and a variety of assignments. Upon competion of the program, participants will have a complete business plan for a social venture and receive a letter of accomplishment.
Registration for the Symposium is free for students currently enrolled in the USASBE Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. To learn more about the Symposium, visit: http://law.umkc.edu/mwse/.
For further information about the USASBE Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Program and how to enroll, visit:http://www.usasbe.org/events/event_details.asp?id=599145.
