North Carolina State University

Oct 18, 2023

Get to know the 2023-24 Social Innovation Fellows

NC State Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship invites you to get to know the 2023-2024 Social Innovation Fellows. This year 16 students from across the university are working together on three interdisciplinary teams. Read below about the impact these students are hoping to make while at NC State and afterwards, and learn a little more about the organizations… 

Sep 7, 2023

Inaugural Changemaker Fellowship Leads to New B Corporation Certification Toolkit

Created and supported by NC State Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Changemaker Fellowship was designed to be rigorous, challenging and empowering in order to prepare students to be effective changemakers in their communities and beyond. 

Oct 14, 2021

A new focus for 2021-22 Social Innovation Fellows teams

For the 2021-2022 cohort, SIF is altering the structure of the program by instead asking fellow teams to focus on one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

Feb 18, 2019

Social Innovation Fellow Alumna Fumi Agboola Featured on WRAL

  Social Innovation Fellow Alumna (2017-2018): Fumi Agboola On January 24, 2019, Social Innovation Fellow Alumna Fumi Agboola was interviewed on WRAL NEWS about her studies on teacher diversity. Her story was apart of WRAL’s news series about teacher recruitment and diversity in North Carolina’s public schools and colleges of education. In her own words,… 

Dec 12, 2018

NC State Social Innovation Fellows Present Mid-Year Progress

    Sandhills School Project team from left to right: Laura Schoeck, Sierra Jones, Ruth Kintzele, Craig Prince, Sofia Abdo & Alysa Buchanan The festive and beautiful Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center served as venue to the December 3rd gathering of Social Innovation Fellows, Brain Trust members, and campus and community leaders to mark… 

Nov 12, 2018

Dr. Richard Clerkin & others featured in the New York Times

Dr. Richard M. Clerkin, Executive Director of the Institute for Nonprofits  New research by Dr. Richard M. Clerkin, a professor of public administration, was featured in the New York Times on November 3, 2018. The research article entitled “The Politics of Donations: Are Red Counties More Donative Than Blue Counties?” studied the relationship between political… 

Oct 24, 2018

COMx: Women Driving Social Impact Through Entrepreneurship

(COMx Panelists from left to right: Lisbeth Arias, Emily Neville, & Catherina Gomes) The NC State Institute for Nonprofits and the Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) organization were hosts to over 70 attendees at this Fall’s COMx event, which took place on Thursday October 18th at the Raleigh offices of Google Fiber. The theme of this…