2023-2024 Graduate Bulletin

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Advanced Certificate

Certificate Director: Professor Charlotte Walker-Said

(cwalker-said@jjay.cuny.edu)

In this graduate advanced certificate program, students will learn to solve existent problems and drive mission impact through social innovation and entrepreneurship. Students will address key social problems in their communities or in the world by developing and launching a social enterprise idea. Courses in the program will teach financial insights and language of funding, prototyping, scaling, marketing, and measuring impact of social enterprises and innovations. Students will develop impactful social enterprise ideas and operational models by learning business and financial structures of existing organizations that apply social innovation tools and frameworks.

Program Requirements

Required Courses

HR 790Social Entrepreneurship Lab: Practicum and Fundraising Tutorial

6

PAD 736How to Begin a Non-for-Profit Business

3

Total Credit Hours:9

Electives

Select one course:

HR 713Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

3

PAD 705Organization Theory and Management

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Total Credit Hours: 12