Abstracts
Post an abstract or brief summary of your social entrepreneur essay here. Each student needs to read all of the posts and be prepared to actively participate on Monday, May 17, 2010. Being visuals. We have a projector and a screen. PowerPoint presentations are okay. Talk to Mr. Sami Ali samiali@peralta.edu about technology needs. Look at the equipment in the classroom in advance.
Post an abstract or brief summary of your social entrepreneur essay here. Each student needs to read all of the posts and be prepared to actively participate on Monday, May 17, 2010. Being visuals. We have a projector and a screen. PowerPoint presentations are okay. Talk to Mr. Sami Ali samiali@peralta.edu about technology needs. Look at the equipment in the classroom in advance.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 9:10 AM
25 Comments:
Taiisha Davis
9-9:50
eng. 1a
My social entrepreneur essay is about Bay Area superwoman Janice Mirikitani. Currently married to Rev. Cecil Williams of the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, Mirikitani has helped all types of people in all walks of life. Mirikitani is a third-generation Japanese American, who was born in Stockton in 1942. This was during WWII when the American government placed several Japanese families into internment camps. Mirikitani’s family was no exception and she spent her infant years on the camp. When her family was released, Mirikitani attended school and did exceptionally well. She began to volunteer at Glide Memorial Church as a teenager. After finishing college, Mirikitani put all of her hard work into Glide and its programs. Her love for the arts pushed her to become the head choreographer for Glide and she won many awards and achievements for her work that profiled social issues such as rape and drug abuse. Mirikitani also wrote several poems and books, and was named San Francisco’s poet laureate in 2002. Since then Mirikitani continues to win several awards and achievements for her dedication to Glide and her efforts to clean up San Francisco’s crime.
Romina Sarmiento
English 1A 9-9:50a
13 May 2010
My social entrepreneur essay is based on the life of Alice Walker author of, The Color Purple. The book, Alice Walker: a life, by Evelyn C. White is very large, so I included 3 key points in Alice's life. The first is the incident that caused her to lose sight in her right eye, second is a brief explaination of her as Alice the activist, and third is how the story of her book, The Color Purple, came about. Alice Walker's writing is creative in her own personal way and has received many awards. Anyone interested should read the book, Alice Walker: a life, by Evelyn C. White or check out her official website, www.alicewalkersgarden, which includes full biography, every book she has written, and upcoming events she will be attending.
Peter Kortmann
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-10
Social Entrepreneur Summary
I selected Farhana Huq, founder of CEO Women, for my social entrepreneur. He foundation is located in Oakland on 14th St. CEO Women stands for Creating Economic Opportunity for Women and targets poor immigrant women. The goal of CEO Women is to offer lessons and classes to help these women learn english, communication, and entrepreneurial skills. Her mission to help the needy refuggee and immigrant women started when she grew tired of seeing the women in her life struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table. Farhana was inspired by Muhammad Yunnas's Grameen Bank and how micro-lending improved the lives of many women in India. CEO Women comprises of a 16 week course, alumnae support, and capital to get women's business dreams off the ground. CEO Women has been going strong for 10 years and hopes to continue and grow for many more years. The women who graduate from the program recieve financial backing to start their dream business. The foundation's impact in very beneficial to the local society because it improves the lives of many women as well as giving back to the communit, well-trained and capable business owners with fresh ideas.
Chelsea Eomurian
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50AM
13 May 2010
My Social Entrepreneur essay is about Alice Waters. She started a program called the Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley. The program teaches the students to plant, grow, harvest, and cook with their own food. It also encourages school cafeterias to re-think their menus and design them more healthfully. She has started a food revolution in America by promoting the use of fresh, local and organic ingredients through her many programs, including the Edible Schoolyard. Other programs she is very involved with include the Yale Sustainable Food Program and Slow Food U.S.A. Alice promotes healthy cooking through sustainable food, which means it helps the local economy by supporting local farmers. Big supermarket chains have severely diminished the use of local farmers and decreased food's nutritional value in America. Alice lives to change the situation in order to help people lead better lives through education. As we have seen in the book Half the Sky, education is a huge factor in making changes anywhere. This is Alice's mission in life, to educate people on the value of fresh food and the benefits of eating healthy.
Jennie Lo
Professor Wanda
English 1A (9:00 – 9:50am)
13 May 2010
My social entrepreneur essay is based on the story of the author “The Middle Place”, Kelly Corrigan. She is living in Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. She is a breast cancer survivor, comes from a family with four uncles and her father also diagnosed cancer. She faces the tough time with strong and positive determination. Corrigan has documented her “cancer journey” experience in her personal essays and captured the honest moments by photograph from receiving her chemotherapy to losing her hair. She is the founder of Circus of Cancer website that teaches people how to help a friend through breast cancer. She is also a key member of the Notes & Words which is putting musicians & writers on stage together for Children’s Hospital & Research Center in Oakland. The latest big event held at The Fox Theater on May 6, 2010.
“The Middle Place” is about being a parent and a child at the same time. It is about the special double vision when you are standing with one foot in each place. It is also about the family you make and the family you came from. Corrigan has a great sense of humor, an honest voice, and a shining way of telling us her story.
James Barker
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50
Professor Sabir
SE Summary
The Social Entrepreneur I wrote about is Mimi Silbert. Mimi inspired me and she is continuing to inspire those that are in her delancy street foundation, which was founded in 1971, started in San Francisco, California. Silbert’s foundation helps those that are either ex-felons, addicts, and homeless get on their feet. Silbert empowers her clients through education, since most ex-convicts end up going back to jail or prison within a year of their last release, this program is very productive to society in numerous ways. Social entrepreneurs are needed in all societies in order to make the world a much healthier, safer, and caring place.
Summera Farooq
Professor Wanda Sabir
Eng 1A
16 May 2010
Social Entrepreneur
I wrote about Greg Mortenson as my social entrepreneur. He was a climber, and a nurse. He went to Pakistan to climb the second tallest mountain in the world K2. He did not make it. The people of Korphe saved his life. He promised them he will build a school for kids. He saved money and built not only school for girls but he also built a bridge, fixed the roads. He is a happy man, because he helps poor people. His Central Asia Institute (CAI) has built 131 schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. The schools now teach 58,000 children — three-quarters of them girls. The girls are going into High Schools and colleges. Most of the girls are planning to go to medical schools and help the society.
Sabah Said
English 1a
Mon-thurs
May 13.2010
Abstract summary of social entrepreneur
My social entrepreneur is about a women in San Fransico bay area called Boona Cheema. She is an executive for the organization she works with called BOSS. Which stand for building opportunities for self sufficiency. There organization help people who are ill or poor. Boona Cheema has been working as a social entrepreneur for so many years, and her son that past away from being ill was what influenced her the most to help people.
Jade Hooker
English 1A
Wanda Sabir
8-9
Regina Jackson
My Social Entrepreneur is Regina Jackson, the executive director at east Oakland's Youth Development Center also known as EOYDC. She is the right hand woman at EOYDC who is in charge of each and every activity that takes place. She loves children and wakes up each day to make sure they know that they all serve a purpose. I used to work at EOYDC and Jackson was my boss. She always made sure her youth staff was taken care of as well as the children who attend the youth center. Jackson is an inspiration to much of east Oakland's youth; many of us look up to her.
Leonardo Martin
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50AM
16 May 2010
The social entrepreneur that I wrote about was Andrea Christina Mercado, community organizer & political education coordinator for Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) in Oakland has developed and formatted reasonable ways of informing working women of their workers’ rights and therefore empowered many women to unite in order to conquer many immigration issues faced by the Oakland and San Francisco communities. MUA has created a philosophy where it uses the obstacles faced by Latina immigrants in their favor as they educate women about becoming peer mentors, group facilitators, community educators, and organizers. It has been her duty to help her community expand and develop local leaders that will carry the legacy of the program through their education process.
Edith Gonzalez
English 1A-9am
Professor Sabir
17 May 2010
Social Entrepreneur Summary
I chose Crystallee R. Crain as my social entrepreneur for my essay. Crystallee joined the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and created a program called, Heal the Streets, which is devoted to help develop and advocate for policies to bring peace and hope to the streets of Oakland, Ca. Crystallee Crain is an activist, educator, and academic. Crain holds a Bachelor’s of science in Political Science, a Masters of Arts in Social Sciences, and is completing a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Studies. The reason why I chose Crystallee was because she works in Oakland and since I live there I was able to find a deep connection with the work that she does.
Kimthuy Tran
English 1A (9-9:50)
Professor Sabir
My social entrepreneur paper is about Delancey Street Foundation and MiMi Silbert. Mimi Silbert and her late husband, John Maher, a heroin addict from the Bronx are presidents and founders of the Delancey Street. Mimi Silber was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and her parents were Irish immigrants. The Delancey Street Foundation is a nonprofit organization where people who were rejected by community and society can look for help. With hard work and love for people who have hit the bottom of the society, Mimi Silbert has built the Delancey Street Foundation where the bottom class can transform their lives. Nowadays, the foundation has spread from the original San Francisco location to other places such as Los Angeles, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Miami (1). Mimi Silbert and her foundation has helped thousands of people who have hit the bottom of society have jobs, get education, and capable of getting back to the main stream of society.
Christopher Kerr
English 1A
9:00-9:50a
My Social Entrepreneur is Joline Godfrey. She is the founder and CEO of the a company called Odysseum. She has devoted her time to making sure that people are financially stable in today's economy and today's time. She has her organization called "Camp Start Up" she says that this is where she does the core of her work. She has plently of books where she gives out tools, and mostly tells her story of how she got to where she is today. She also has a website that allows for her to answer questions that young people have. Most of her time she is giving back to the community and traveling around the world to give speeches.
Lisa Huey
English 1A
9:00-9:50AM
Social Entreprenuer
The entreprenuer that I researched on was Leonardo Del Veccio. He founded Luxottica and made spectacles. He then started the OneSight foundation who helped millions of people all over the world giving free eyecare and eyewear. OneSight now consists of many volunteers, both from the community and Luxottica employees. I work at Lenscrafters, which is a branch of Luxottica, and we participate in the Gift of Sight by collecting gently used eyewear and giving free eyeexams and new eyewear to sponsered patients.
David Atchison
English 1A
9-9:50
professor Sabir
i did my social entreprenuer report on DR.Mimi Silbert. he receive 9 degrees, she has a doctorate in psychology and criminology from university of California. she and John Maher created a foundation called Delancey Street in 1971 with just a thousand dollar loan
Juan Li
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50AM
17 May 2010
My social entrepreneur paper is about MiMi Silbert. Mimi Silbert founder of the Delancey Street. Mimi Silber was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and her parents were Irish immigrants. The Delancey Street Foundation is a nonprofit organization where people who were ex-con can get help to get their educations and found a job. Nowadays, the foundation has spread from the original San Francisco location to other places such as Los Angeles, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina. Mimi Silbert and her foundation has helped thousands of people who have hit the bottom of society have jobs, get education, and capable of getting back to the main stream of society.
Crystal Cortez
English 1A 8-9am
My social entrepreneur is Martin Fisher
He was born in London
At the age of 8 he moved with his family to the United States
He comes from a well educated family
His father is an academic physicist
And his mother is a social entrepreneur: she founded the Ithaca Festival (this is a festival that takes place in New York every yr. for 3 day with art music and dancing)
In 1979 he received his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering
And then moved to San Francisco to receive his masters and doctorate in mechanical design and applied mechanics from Sanford University
While finishing his PhD he traveled to South America and that is where he had his first encounter with poverty in a third world country.
While in South America he saw his mission to help global poverty by using his engineering to develop the technology to help village get out of poverty
When he returned to the US he received a Fulbright Scholarship to Kenya to study the relationship between poverty and technology
After 10 months his scholarship ended but since he liked and felt his mission in Kenya was not over he spent the next 17 yrs there working for a British non-profit organization called ActionAid.
While working there he met Nick Moon and in 1991 he quit ActionAid and started ApproTec now known as KickStart( non profit organization)
Both Moon and Fisher started to design affordable moneymaking tools and mass-market them to the poor
They made a couple tools like an oil seed press, a press to make stabilizes soil blocks, and there most successful tool Fisher designed was the irrigation pump in 97. It is called the moneymaker pump.
Today this product that Fisher design has been so successful that they have sold more than 148,00 pumps
In 2001 Fisher success in the MoneyMaker pump has been so good that they now have established a fundraising office in San Francisco.
2005 was the yr they change the organization group from AproTech to Kickstart (that was done to make the organization a single base nonprofit organization in Africa and US)
Fisher is CEO, Co Founder and director of KickStart and still stays active building new designs to help people in third world counties over come poverty and become entripunrs
He now works with designer in the States and other organization like I.D.E.O.
Awards he has received: the IDEA Design Gold Medal, TIME Magazine's 2003 European Hero award, 2005 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the Schwab Foundation's "2003 Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
In 2008 he was awarded Engineer of the Yr.
Overall Martin Fisher is a successful, motivated, drived man that has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of poor Africans though his MoneyMaker pump.
SunJungPark
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50
18, May 2010
My social entrepreneur essay is about MiMi Silbert who built the Delancey Street at San Francisco in the 1971and is psychologist and criminologist. Career criminals can’t find a job so they continue happen bad situation. The Delancey Street Foundation is a nonprofit organization where people can get assist to get their degree (GED& BA) and found an occupation. Mimi Silbert’s Foundation is still very successful because it is continuing to help the minority group of ex-criminals reenter society for approximately forty years, and at the same time it is a profitable entrepreneurship. Productive citizens have a new dream at Delancey Street, and they spread positive social power. By helping others, the old Delancey Street neighborhood was able to escape the criminals’ former lives. Now they want ensure that the current Delancey Street residents have an even better future.
Nseke Ngilbus
Professor Sabir
Eng 1A
05/18/2010
I wrote my social entrepeuneur on the very very famous Mimi Silbert. She is an amazing young women, she has dedicated her life to helping people that are less fortunate. She started to do this because of her parents, they have engrained in her mind that you need to help those are in need. Her parents gave their lives to helping others, so she gave her life too. She started DElancey STreet foundation to help these people that is in need. It is a very successful program, it has been open for more than 30 years. And it has helped more than 14,000 people. The program is very nice and great. She reforms people by educating, disciplining, and loving people. She does not accept donations. She has alot of awards.
Ahu Yildirim
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A (9 - 9:50am)
12 May 2010
Social Entrepreneur Essay: Mimi Silbert
My social entrepreneur essay is based on Mimi Silbert, her life, her achievements of life and the importance of education for humanity. Mimi Silbert, the founder of the Delancey Street Foundation, is a mother of two and mother of many hearts in the communities she’s served. She is an empowered woman with an extensive education. She has a Bachelors degree in English and Doctoral Degrees in counseling, psychology and criminology. She started with only a thousand dollar loan and her dream to bring the Delancey Street Foundation into life. Her dream eventually became a reality. The Delancey Street Foundation now provides education, training, and job placement for substance abusers, former felons and others who have had an unfortunate criminal related history. The Delancey Street Foundation gives people the opportunity to obtain free education and vocational skills through their own efforts. Such a venture taken upon by the individual can pay dividends for those who chose to take advantage of it. Education prepares people to live lives they would not have lived otherwise. Education can change those lives to have a positive outcome. Her choice of providing education for those people, recycles them back to the humanity, enables recidivism and more social problems for our society. Mimi Silbert’s passion of life work inspired me.
Veronica Flores
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50
SE Essay Summary
The Social Entrepreneur I chose to profile was Bay Area's Mimi Silbert. Silbert is a self-made entrepreneur and founder of The Delancey Street Foundation. The Delancey Street organization stands as a residential center, taking in drugs addicts, criminals, and homeless, helping them learn to lead healthy, productive, law-abiding lives. This gives those the opportunity to better themselves, through their own efforts, in a peaceful, crime-free environment. Within the standard 4 year stay at Delancey, residents get the opportunity to earns their high school equivalency degree (GED), and learn numerous marketable skills to ensure success as a business individual in the real world. The organization is nonprofit, earning its own revenue throughout small businesses within Delancey. Silbert named the foundation after Delancey Street in New York, where many Jewish immigrants settled, including her parents, when first coming to America. Silbert hold two doctoral degrees in counseling psychology and criminology from UC Berkeley. She has been awarded UC Berkeley's Alumni of the Year Award in 1991, along with being name one of the 100 Berkeley Fellows in 2003. She has two sons, David and Greg Silbert, who have also been active participants in the Delancey Street Foundation. Silbert believes in every individual, having faith in those who are often doubted by everyone. Many don't realize just how difficult it is for an ex-con to make something of themselves after being released from prison. Silbert has made this possible. She has truly inspired me, changing my whole outlook on what everyone is capable of doing. We can all help each other to make this world a better place.
Joshua Duong
Professor Sabir
english 1A 8-8:50 am
5/20/10
I did my social entrepreneur on Mimi Silbert, like many others. She is known mainly because of her work in the criminal justice department, creating new opportunities for individuals like ex-felons, prostitutes, and others who have hit rock-bottom. She, along with others, created the organization that is known today as the Delancey Street Foundation. The foundation puts these people back into the working class of society, and also creates better, more honest lives for these individuals. She inspires many with the amount of work and success in her field.
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Victor Ani
Ms. Sabir
English 9-9:50
14 May 2010
The social entrepreneur I have chosen to speak about is Regina Jackson. Currently she is the Executive Director of EOYDC which stands for East Oakland Youth Development Center. Regina has a degree from UC Berkeley in Political Science. She is from Oakland,California. A great influence on her was her parents because they were trained attorney's and she wanted to follow in there footsteps. She is now a well-known name in Oakland because of her numerous accomplishments. She has done outstanding things for the community of Oakland. A person of motivation, Regina Jackson fights everyday to get people to be what ever they want to be in life. She has led well by example.
Andrew Yount
Professor Sabir
English 8AM-8:50
5/26/10
My social entrepeneur is Greg Mortenson. Mortenson is the director of CAI and an avid spokesman for the education and advancement of women. He fights the crusdade for women's rights in Asia and other terrorist populated areas.
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