Center for Science, Technology, and Society

SECU Foundation Provides $560,000 to Help 14 Non-Profits Build Organizational Capacity

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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Our expected outcomes will include a solid plan for sustainability and a capital campaign plan specifically for our Center.

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  • Our expected outcomes will include a solid plan for sustainability and a capital campaign plan specifically for our Center.
  • SECU is the second largest credit union in the United States with $50 billion in assets.
  • The SECU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization funded by the contributions of SECU members, promotes local community development in North Carolina primarily through high-impact projects in the areas of housing, education, healthcare, and human services.
  • Since 2004, SECU Foundation has made a collective financial commitment of over $258 million for initiatives to benefit North Carolinians statewide.

Executive Director of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Leaving to Join Executive Leadership Team of New Impact Enterprise Entity

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
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After nearly 10 years leading Santa Clara Universitys Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Executive Director Thane Kreiner will be leaving April 30 to join a new impact enterprise as a founding team member.

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  • After nearly 10 years leading Santa Clara Universitys Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Executive Director Thane Kreiner will be leaving April 30 to join a new impact enterprise as a founding team member.
  • Kreiner, a former life sciences executive and startup founder, has overseen tremendous growth in the programming, impact, and reach of Miller Center, one of three Centers of Distinction at Santa Clara University.
  • Miller Centers focus on using social entrepreneurship in service of the most marginalized of this world truly embodies the principles of Jesuit education.
  • Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, located at Santa Clara University, has accelerated more than 1000 social enterprises since 2003.

Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Fellows Share Results Nov. 18

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Education, Consulting, Professional services, University, Geography of California, California, Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, Locatelli, Center for Science, Technology, and Society

But for more than a dozen Santa Clara University students each year, thats precisely their mandate.

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  • But for more than a dozen Santa Clara University students each year, thats precisely their mandate.
  • On Nov. 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Locatelli Student Activity Center on Santa Claras campus, this years 18 fellows from Santa Clara Universitys Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship will describe their research and success stories from their work in places like Uganda, Rwanda, and Bangalore, India.
  • Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, located at Santa Clara University, has accelerated more than 1000 social enterprises since 2003.
  • We engage Santa Clara University students in research that helps social enterprises, leveraging our location in the heart of Silicon Valley and our Jesuit ambition to end poverty and protect the planet.