We have all seen how communities draw upon their strengths to care for each other during these unprecedented times. All of these values are exemplified in #GivingTuesday, established as a day to celebrate charity and embrace its life-changing benefits. While the events this year have been monumental and challenging, Giving Tuesday celebrates the best that …
Category Archives: Social Entrepreneurship
Help Promote Water Safety – Here’s How
Candace Thome, a social entrepreneur who founded Swim Brayv and an alumnus of Cal State Fullerton, has an important message to share about water safety: Become an advocate for water & swim safety by taking the Swim B.R.A.Y.V. Pledge! We at Swim Brayv, make it our duty to educate humans all over the world about …
CSUF Entrepreneurship Success Story: David Chamberlain ’14
David Chamberlain is one of those students that you knew would do great things. He is currently the VP of Sales and Marketing at Creative Outdoor Distributor and is getting ready to launch his first business, Interact, which will help families find the best service providers for their special needs children. In addition to being …
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A CSUF Startup Incubator Resident Launches!
Ben Yip is the Resident from the CSUF Startup Incubator who has now launched the alpha platform for his company Aidtree and he is aiming to revolutionize philanthropy! It’s a great story and we hope there will be a lot more to come from him in the near future. You can read more about Aidtree, …
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Reinventing Family Time – CSUF Entrepreneurship Success Story
As many entrepreneurs know, creating a successful business is hard work and Cal State Fullerton alumni Chuck Su ’11’s experience has been no different. While working a second job at night, Chuck works diligently on his own business during the day; a sacrifice he and his loved ones make with grace. As a student, Chuck …
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How Does CSUF Stem Inc. Teach Kids STEM and Entrepreneurship?
We have been working with local middle schools for a couple of years now in an attempt to bring STEM and entrepreneurship to students to help them better prepare for the real world. To start this program, called Stem Inc., we used a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation that we won in partnership …
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Classic Gentleman presents the Secret Soiree
Style and class seem to be in short supply these days that is why we are excited to tell you about a group of CSUF students that are paragons of these virtues. Classic Gentleman is a company founded by CSUF students to promote the finer things in life and they will be hosting an event …
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Center for Entrepreneurship Director Honored for Service to Cal State Fullerton
I have been remiss in posting this but earlier this year Director John Bradley Jackson was honored by California State University, Fullerton for all of the service-oriented projects he does on behalf of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Just to give you a small glimpse into all of the activities Director Jackson is involved in on …
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A CSUF Student-Entrepreneur's Charitable Startup
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Kaylyn Donohue ’16 at one of our CSUF Startup Incubator events. Kaylyn is one of our bright student-entrepreneurs and she recently tested out her minimum viable product (MVP) for her concept Garage Gains. Unlike other garage sales, Garage Gains did not put price tags on any of …
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CSUF Alumni Awarded Presidential Volunteer Service Award
Cal State Fullerton alumni Raquel Lizarraga ’10 and Henry Reyes ’10 recently won the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for the work that their nonprofit, International Surf Lifesaving Association, has done to help prevent people from drowning. Here’s more of the story about ISLA: “This is another chance to get the issue of global drowning in …
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