The Development Studies Program and the Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship conducted a five-day social entrepreneurship training for Consuelo Foundation partners from February 4 to 8, 2012 at the Ateneo de Manila University.
At the end of the five-day workshop, the participants were able to come up with workable ideas for social enterprises. The first day of the training provided an orientation on social entrepreneurship and helped participants prepare presentations of their social enterprise ideas. On the second day, the participants presented before a panel which will provide comments on the participants’ social enterprise ideas. During the last three days, speakers ran workshops on key functions of social business enterprises including marketing, operations, accounting, and stakeholder management.
The trainers are faculty of the Development Studies Program and the John Gokongwei School of Management. Mr. Mariel Vincent Rapisura and Mr. Edwin Salonga were one of the resource persons for the event.