CESR is excited to announce the first recipients of the Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship fund: Julia Severson, Austin Leyba, Dylan Stanton, Noel Ramirez Ortega and Hailey Dearman. Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship The Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship launched in 2016 rewarding five...
Often times our smartphones are our lifelines, containing everything from vacation photos to important work emails. What is commonly overlooked by us consumers are the work and material that goes into producing our favorite technology. Shockingly, for something as compact as a phone, the production consists of questionable work ethics...
More and more businesses are joining the movement of conscious capitalism – choosing to evaluate their success on the “triple bottom line”: their impact on people and the planet, as well as making a profit. As a consequence, people leading CSR efforts within their companies are looking for ways to...
In 2015 students pursuing CESR's Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate were introduced to the Marc Prisant and Heidi Heltzel Scholarship for Ethics and Social Responsibility. Among the first three outstanding students awarded was Denver native, Jordyn Johnson. "Whenever someone believes in me enough to fund my education, I know that...
By Alexa Levine, CESR Fellows Correspondent and Content Producer, Leeds 2019 By the end of spring semester, 68 students had enrolled in CESR Fellows, a group sponsored by the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR), for those with a passion for values-driven business and making a positive social and...
Twin sisters and social entrepreneurs Miki and Radha Agrawal are Millennials, a generation characterized by the sisters as idealistic, searching, spiritual and progressive, with a meaningful approach to business as a force for community. They were recently profiled in Conscious Company Magazine . “…The future of entrepreneurship is social entrepreneurship...
Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2016 Kara Ladd, Leeds graduate and contributor to The New York Observer, recently covered the Copenhagen Fashion Summit which gathers industry leaders to examine fashion’s environmental and social footprint. For its fourth edition, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit took place early May with a variety of fashion, political...
The 8th Annual ARCS Research Conference, of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Responsibility, was hosted by the Leeds School of Business and the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the University of Colorado, Boulder from May 18-20, 2016. The Conference Chair was Jeffrey York, Assistant Professor of...
For the first time ever, over 500 attendees from every region across Africa + Middle East will come together for a social enterprise trade and investment summit on September 19-23, 2016. This historic gathering of women-led social enterprises, social impact investors and international buyers will take place in Ifrane, Morocco...
By Fiona Murphy, Net Impact President, Marketing, Grad 2018 Sierra Stein, CESR Fellows Committees VP and Net Impact Liaison, Management, Grad 2019 For students looking for a community of sustainability-minded peers, you now have two options offered at CU-Boulder through the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) and Leeds...
