Service: Coming Full Circle By Giving Back

Giving Back (Again)

We kicked off our Spring Service Learning way back in March by learning about giving back to our communities thru social entrepreneurship. A social entrepreneur creates a business (or multiple businesses) to address a social issue or cause in their community.

Over the past 10 weeks, we’ve learned about the basics of creating a business: from product development to marketing to keeping track of our revenues, costs and profits.

Our final challenge to you this spring is to circle back to where we start: the idea of giving back.  

Think about the cause that is most important to you. Now imagine that your business made a profit of $100 during the past 10 weeks that you can give back to a charity that works to address this issue. For example, if you choose fighting hunger as your cause, perhaps you would want to contribute a portion of your profits to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

So … what charity would you choose to give back to? How would you research this charity to make sure they are the best one to share your profits with?