HUB Building Day Event

Second Building Day--Setting the Standard!

Wow! Thanks to all who joined us last week. Elliott Bay Cafe was the place, PEOPLE was the theme, and incredible was the result. We are so encouraged by another huge turnout of creative, passionate innovators with vision to spare and the motivation to make things happen. So many ideas in so short a time!

Link to newsletter: http://ow.ly/5OVJb 
Link to flickr photos:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/32078765@N07/5837823168/in/photostream

Partner Profile: Lumana

Last night I had the privilege of joining some Re-Vision Labs colleagues and two accomplished Seattle social entrepreneurs in a conversation about global development and sustainable business models...

http://blablab.re-visionlabs.com/2010/03/19/partner-profile-lumana/

Eric Appesland Story

Using LinkedIn and other social networking sites, Foster alumnus Eric Appesland (BA 2009) and a team of his peers from the University of Washington have ...
http://www.foster.washington.edu/alumni/Pages/EricAppeslandStory.aspx

Helping to end poverty in Ghana with microcredit

This Thursday attendees at the weekly Rotary luncheon will have the opportunity to hear about some exciting work being done with microcredit in Ghana, Africa... Come on Thursday, Feb. 11, to hear about the work of Lumana Credit. Speakers from the organization will include Eric Appesland, Karin Avellaneda and Cole Hoover…

http://www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/Home/storyitem.asp?cid=2270&iid=135346

Lumana Credit

Back at the Foster School, she founded the UW Social Entrepreneurship Club and assembled an A-team of volunteers, among them Foster alumni Karin Avellaneda (BA 2009), Eric Appesland (BA 2009), Avi Zellman (BA 2009), PJ LaFemina (BA 2009), and Alexandra Berg (BA 2009)...
http://www.foster.washington.edu/academic/undergrad/Pages/Lumana_Ghana.aspx

Sweet 16 Teams

April 28 was the 2009 Business Plan Competition Investment Round—our marquee event of the year! It was a start-up extravaganza with 230 judges (entrepreneurs, investors, community supporters) hearing simultaneous pitches from 33 teams (selected from 90 entries—a banner year!) representing colleges and universities across Washington State...
http://www.foster.washington.edu/CENTERS/CIE/BUSINESSPLANCOMPETITION/Pages/Sweet162009.aspx

JMUCC Participants

http://www.jmucc.ca/2009/universities/studentdelegates.htm