Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship
February 5th, 2010
The Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship (APTE) Summit 2010 will be held on February 5th, 2010 at The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business. The Summit seeks to educate students about the use of entrepreneurship to tackle the challenges of poverty, globally and locally. The event is collaboratively organized by the two Ohio State student organizations, the Business Builders Club and Net Impact, with key support from Professor Sharon Alvarez.
The APTE Summit 2010 will highlight social entrepreneurial initiatives at Ohio State and encourage the creation of additional channels of action for Ohio State students to make meaning through entrepreneurship. Ohio State is well-positioned to become a leader in the field of social entrepreneurship with 52,000+ students from 70+ countries around the world – a truly interconnected global community.
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History
The inaugural Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship Summit held on February 20th, 2009 was the first major event at Ohio State to focus exclusively on social entrepreneurship. The APTE Summit 2009 featured diverse perspectives on market-based solutions to poverty including those from social entrepreneurs, leading academics, corporations, non-profits, and government representatives.
The 2009 Summit was organized in approximately 3 months time and bootstrapped with a total budget of less than $5000. The event was a success and well attended by over 300 students, professors, and community members. Sidney Hargro (Senior Officer, Columbus Foundation) remarked that the student organizers “planned and implemented one of the best day-long events I’ve ever experienced.”
