Revised draft agenda
Medgar Evers College and ENS Global
Women's History Month Conference
on
Social Enterprise and the UN Global Citizenship Agenda for Sustainable *Development
March 10th at Founder’s Auditorium
Rationale:
With its heritage as the leading civil rights colege , The MEC School of Business in Brooklyn Is committed to organizing an academic conference in collaboration with ENS Global (Escuela De Negocios Sociales winner of the vatican university prixe for education atPremio Internazionale Giuseppe Sciacca ) that will encourage a student and faculty exploration of social enterprise corporations and how these entities may apply commercial strategies that maximize improvement in human development and environmental well being. A particular emphasis of this conference will concern how these social enterprise agencies may support sustainable Cities and Communities via the Empowerment of women. Moreover, the conference will explore how social enterprises are collaborating with the United Nations Global Citizenship Program and the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Economists will be challenge to nominate one world leader from their profession per eacch f the 17 system transformation goals the UN launched in September. The Ecuador partner of ENS will help youth value first year progress Quito October 2016.
Proposed Conference Schedule:
9:00am Opening Keynote, SDG 5: Gender Equality / Women's History Month - from americas most experienced bankers for poorest womens families
10:00 Coffee Break and network session
10:30 - 11:30 Session two (2)(Bernardo) , Types, Trends and Best Practices: A Global Perspective of Social Enterprises that address sustainable cities and communities via the empowerment of women. (Education and Franciscan Preferential Option Poor System Design )
12:30 - 2:30 (Session 3) Keynote, UN Global Citizenship and Developmental Goals (Speaker TBA with student moderator) Lunch with female elected officials (Congresswoman Clarke, Public Advocate James, Councilwoman Barron, Councilwoman Cumbo, Assemblywoman Walker) (Explanation of afternoon sessions)
Multiple plenary sessions with topics TBA from below:
3:00 - 4:30 Session four (4), Four separate breakout workshops organized via “Open Space Technology” (OST) to initiate student, faculty and community emergent strategic plan for co creation of social enterprises that address the promotion of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities via the empowerment of women. Geographic area of focus is Chile, Kenya, Central Brooklyn, Baltimre, Beijing, Rome and Jamaica. These initial plans will be integrated into the experiential pedagogy of the MEC EEL (experiential Entrepreneurial Lab). _______Moderator, Amy and friends of Open Space China
3:30 - 4:30 Session four contd.(4) presentation of preliminary proposals for MEC / MIT joint academic program in nonprofit management and sustainable development (SDG 11:Sustainable Development & SDG 4:Education). Presentation of MEC / Mondragon joint academic program in cooperative management (SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities & SDG 4: Quality Education) ______Moderator, CUNY Trustee Clarke
4:30 - 5:00 Session five (5). Closing Summary & Partnership for the UN Goals
5:30 - 7:30 Closing Awards reception / Network / Entertainment (on-site)
* Tentative proposed small reception on March 9th at the Marriott with conference guests. Marriott designated as Conference hotel.
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chris macrae washington dc 240 316 8157
with thanks to pro-youth journalists at economistuniversity.com creative children -key to 21st c economics and sustainability- and OpenSustainability.blogspot.com aka journal of social business
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