WASHINGTON, D.C. - George-town University Feb. 11 celebrated the launch of its new Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation with a symposium that featured leaders from the social innovation sector. “Social impact, innovations, social change, change makers (are a part of) the lexicon that we all seem to be talking about,” said Sonal Shah, a professor of practice...
nding executive director. “It’s the generation of students not just at Georgetown, but around the world and country who are talking about how to have social impact…and universities have the opportunity to train that generation of leaders to meet those challenges,” the Indian American added. An economist, Shah is a former director of President Barack Obama’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House. Before that, she worked at the U.S Treasury, Goldman Sachs and led Google Global Development Initiatives, the philanthropic arm of Google.com.
Georgetown alumna Olga Maria Beeck and her husband, investor Alberto Beeck of Key Biscayne, Fla., director of Virgin Hotels and former president of a Peruvian cement company, made the $10 million gift to Georgetown for the new center, which hopes to foster innovation among students who want to work to solve society’s problems, Georgetown said Feb. 10. The Beecks are the parents of two current Georgetown students. Georgetown officials told AP that their program differs from similar programs at other universities, because it is not in the business school. It may involve students studying public and foreign policy, law and other disciplines, as well as business. “It’s really about ideas in the social sector that could merge with what’s happening in the nonprofit, for profit and government sectors to really solve social problems at scale,” Shah said. (AP)
Georgetown alumna Olga Maria Beeck and her husband, investor Alberto Beeck of Key Biscayne, Fla., director of Virgin Hotels and former president of a Peruvian cement company, made the $10 million gift to Georgetown for the new center, which hopes to foster innovation among students who want to work to solve society’s problems, Georgetown said Feb. 10. The Beecks are the parents of two current Georgetown students. Georgetown officials told AP that their program differs from similar programs at other universities, because it is not in the business school. It may involve students studying public and foreign policy, law and other disciplines, as well as business. “It’s really about ideas in the social sector that could merge with what’s happening in the nonprofit, for profit and government sectors to really solve social problems at scale,” Shah said. (AP)
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