Net Impact Portland State University

All forecasts point to a dreary, rainy weekend...

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Instead of sitting at home re-watching shows on Netflix, come to Kickstart Weekend and learn skills that can help you transform your idea into a business!!!

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Portland State Center for Entrepreneurship | Kickstart Weekend During two evenings and one day, you will work with teams, mentors from the Portland Startup community, PSU faculty, and staff to experience innovation in action and grow and sharpen your entrepreneurial skills.

We've created a team for the Drawdown EcoChallenge!

The competition starts soon (April 4th), so join our team now with this link if you want to learn about the 100 top solutions to reverse climate change (and how you can implement them into your daily life)!

https://drawdown.ecochallenge.org/participants/join?referral_code=bd191ee4-a34d-48fa-b1ea-b68682b76063&team_invitation=true

Join the Drawdown EcoChallenge, presented by Northwest Earth Institute and Project Drawdown The Drawdown EcoChallenge is offered in partnership by Project Drawdown and Northwest Earth Institute's EcoChallenge. Together we're taking action on the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. Stretch your limits, earn points, and compete for prizes...like a video call with Paul Hawken fo...

Our very own Becky Goldcrump shares about how her time at PSU has helped her discover her passion for creating positive change through business (way to go Becky!):

The New CPA: Changemaking Passionate Accountant The decision to get my MBA was (what I thought would be) a natural progression from accounting to finance. I chose The Portland MBA program for two reasons: 1) its connection to the city I loved; a…

Study abroad opportunity for social innovation-focused Net Impact-ers:

Study social innovation this summer in Bogotá with PSU’s Impact Entrepreneurs. Develop entrepreneurial leadership skills while exploring the history and culture of Colombia, with an emphasis on the role of social innovation in a time of rapid development and change.

Deadline to apply is March 1! More information at bit.ly/PSUbogota.

❤️🌯THANK YOU🌯❤️
We raised just over $850 from our Chipotle fundraiser!! Thanks so much for coming and spreading the word!! We love our Portland State community 🙌.

Mauricio Lim Miller, keynote at The Elevating Impact Summit, goes beyond direct service to those in poverty, to actually changing the systems that perpetuate poverty in the United States.

Tickets are still available for the Summit at www.elevatingimpact.org

https://www.pdx.edu/sba/news/using-entrepreneurship-escape-poverty-mauricio-lim-miller-keynote-speaker-elevating-impact-summit

Portland State The School of Business: Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation | Impact Awards As part of the Elevating Impact Summit, the Impact Awards recognize the achievements of remarkable changemakers and teams who are using entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial approaches to generate positive social and environmental impact. Impact Award winners act boldly to implement programs or venture...

On Monday, Jan. 29th, come and eat a burrito (or something else) for good! For each order between 4-8p at the Chipotle at 1948 SW Broadway (next PSU campus), Net Impact will receive 50% of the proceeds!

*No flyer necessary! Just mention the fundraiser to the cashier before completing your transaction.

Join us for a fundraiser at Chipotle 01.29.2018, 4:00pm - 8:00pm

Spreading holiday cheer! 🌟
This week, we helped the YWCA deliver gifts to elderly community members in East Portland, and had a lot of fun!

Had a great morning helping to get a YWCA Y-Share house ready for move-in by early January. Big thanks to everyone who could make it!

Wow! A heartfelt thanks, again, to all guests at the Holiday Bash on Dec. 8th! Because of you, we were able to donate 38 gift cards—each given with a hand-written note—for teens in foster care, through the Ten for Teens 2017 campaign. We’re proud of the generosity from our community members at Women In Leadership

We would like to thank everyone who came to the Holiday Bash last Friday! It was a great time to connect with other business school student groups at PSU and celebrate the end of the fall term 🙌. We can’t wait to deliver the toys to YWCA of Greater Portland & the cash gift cards to Embrace Oregon for teens in foster care—which was made possible by the tremendous generosity of our guests!
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We’d like to give a special thanks to Women Inspiring Leadership & the E-Club for collaborating on this event, and also to for allowing to us to gather at the beautiful new Karl Miller Center!

**Applications Due Tomorrow, December 10th!! Idea-stage ventures welcomed!**
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Apply to pitch your social venture at the 2018 Elevating Impact Summit! Finalists get a chance to work with local social enterprise leaders as coaches, pitch their idea onstage to hundreds of changemakers, and vie to win cash and in-kind prizes. Criteria, deadlines, and awards at

2018 Elevating Impact Summit Pitch Fest Application Apply to pitch your social venture to an audience of hundreds of investors, funders, entrepreneurs, and supporters at the Elevating Impact Summit Pitch Fest. Past winners have gone on to lead statewide programs, global networks, and critical social movements. Make Elevating Impact Summit the stage f...