Final presentations schedule
The final presentation week is here! Please read carefully – following the instructions will help make this a successful event.
Presenters, please arrive a few minutes prior to class start, so 3:20-3:25pm, on the day of your presentation in order to set up A/V equipment. EVERYBODY is expected to be in their seats by 3:30pm, so we can go over logistics together. Those who will not present will judge presentations – everybody needs to attend all presentations. Our guest judges have received the following schedule:
Tuesday, May 12
3:40-4:10 The future of policing
4:10-4:40 The future of work
Thursday, May 14
3:40-4:10 A gender lens on economic growth
4:10-4:40 New approaches to public health
I look forward to seeing the results of your hard work this semester! Good luck!!!
Wales Capital Questions
1. Can you give examples of how sustainable business exists in a fragmented form today? What is the actual problem Wales Capital is trying to solve? Is it a widespread and destructive problem?
2. Could you explain crowdfunding in some detail?
New Women, New Yorkers Questions
1. How did you find volunteers?
2. What are your sources for funding and maintaining financial stability?
Guest speakers next week
We will have two guest speakers next week:
Tue, Apr. 14 – Arielle Kandel from New Women New Yorkers
Thu, Apr. 16 – Kim Wales from Wales Capital (please also read this interview with her)
Questions for Designer Debera Johnson
1. The City Farm and Fish program looks interesting to me. Could you tell me more about how the City Farm and Fish method is an improvement over the old-world way of bringing in outsourced fish and through trucking in urban areas? This point was not very clear to me on the website.
2. When talking about the City Farm and Fish program, I examined the schematic provided of the design that CFF uses to provide fish with clean water and use fish droppings for fertilizer, which can then produce food for the fish. This looks sustainable but how does this work in reality? Where is it happening? Is the CFF doing any other projects like this (i.e. using solar panels as implied in the website) and can you give a description of these?
Guest speaker tomorrow: Debera Johnson from bkaccelerator.com in SH 107
A reminder that tomorrow we will have Debera Johnson from the Brooklyn Design & Fashion Accelerator visit our class. I have also invited social entrepreneurship students from the Colin Powell School, so we’ll have a slightly larger group and will meet in SH-107 instead of our regular classroom.
Please have your questions ready: Don’t wait for me to prompt you. There are no wrong questions, as long as you come prepared – please review the website http://bkaccelerator.com/ and the speaker http://www.fitnyc.edu/12367.asp .
Prof. Binz-Scharf
Questions for NYC Social Innovation Center
1. Can you describe in-depth what kinds of actual social innovations have been developed or will be developed at this institution and also at what stages these projects are in?
2. According to the website, NYS SIC is using 100,000 square feet. What is being done with all that area? Also, how can people such as ourselves get involved (can people with little capital or with inability to pay large monthly fees get involved?)?
Invitation: NYC Social Innovation Festival
NYC Social Innovation Festival
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