Social Venture Research Institute
The Social Venture Research Institute (SVRI) Fellows create more opportunities for greater peace and broader prosperity in local, regional, and global economies by accelerating program partner’s ability to progress from “startup to scale” with their Social Entrepreneurship programs.
The Social Venture Research Institute (SVRI) brings together administrators, faculty and business leaders who seek to create greater peace and prosperity in local, regional, national and global economies via Social Entrepreneurship education.
The Social Venture Research (SVRI) Certification
GCSEN has created the SVRI Certification as a credential for completing our intensive "prac-ademic" program for those professionals seeking to accelerate "4P" Social Entrepreneurship: People, Planet, Profit and Place in their work places. We do this via innovative programming, coaching and learning technologies, paired with lifetime support across our ever-growing global network of alumni and human resources.
In the SVRI Experience, professionals:
- Collaborate with fellow educators, administrators and business leaders on developing and implementing best Social Entrepreneurship practices, appropriate for their workplaces
- Create more meaningful career paths for students, adult learners and colleagues
- Inspire a culture of collaborative capitalism over time
- Are empowered, supported and best prepared to educate and inspire the next generation of Social Entrepreneurs, a new and powerful force for social innovation and economic growth, driving "4P" Impacts for People, Profit, Planet and Place.
SVRI Enrollees gain access to the GCSEN Business Formulation Toolkit, Social
Entrepreneurship online courses, GCSEN web resources, as well as access to our consulting services. They share a growing set of best practices for use in the classroom, their workplace and beyond.
SVRI is at the cutting edge of Social Entrepreneurship in institutional, agency and
business action, research and thought leadership. Join a new collaborative community of thinkers and doers seeking to scale "4P" Social Entrepreneurship ventures.
- Build your mastermind network
- Primary research and academic publishing opportunities available
- Gain the "prac-ademic" tools, strategies, and support you need to advance social entrepreneurship education in your institution or workplace. Participate in SVRI Practicum Experiences, sharing best practices and ongoing collaboration
- Develop Knowledge & Confidence Gains for your constituent cohorts
- Develop Life Changing Learning Experience Change in Thinking / Behavior /
Career Acceleration for your constituent cohorts - Increased Business Formulation Rates for your constituent cohorts
GCSEN SVRI Faculty Certification Run of Programs- Content and Community- Fee $5,000
I. SVRI Faculty Coursewor k– 16 hours
II. Awareness- GCSEN- Review of Vision, Mission, Strategy, State of the Field of 4PSE, Teacher Philosophy and Exploring Intersectionality of Jesuit Core Values with Social Entrepreneurship.
III. Impact Review- GCSEN Theory of Change, GCSEN Alumni Survey Longitudinal Data Impact ‘16-21, Student, Customizable Faculty Program Models, Features & Benefits for Students, Faculty and Schools.
IV. Activation- Customizing Faculty Run of Program Models, Test Driving GCSEN’s Global Learning Platform, Designing Fall ‘26, Spring ‘27 Course, and Reviewing Sample Syllabus Models plus a free ten-student starter class with Courseware and On-Line Book- valued at $4,950
V. Draft a Customized Activation Plan
VI. SVRI Faculty Certification and Graduation
VII. Monthly Check In Call- Brainstorm on Course activity and Research Opportunities with Lifetime SVRI Fellow Support
What is the GCSEN SVRI Faculty Fellows Certification And Activation?
A highly effective applied learning (or “Pracademic”) program for academics designed to accelerate 4P Social Entrepreneurship– People, Planet, Profit, and Place in higher education via social innovation programming, bridging academia with practical/action based methodology and engagement in GCSEN’s global collaborative community. We are focused on teaching and activating learning cohorts with the practical social enterprise method, focused on the social entrepreneur practitioner and supported by innovative, academic rigor.
Participants are equipped with the GCSEN Toolkit and class resources and learn best practices for teaching 4P Social Entrepreneurship to others. “SVRI Faculty Fellows” leave the program inspired, empowered, and with a lifetime support community, and prepared to educate and inspire the next generation of social entrepreneurs; a powerful force for solving societal problems and creating economic and social value! GCSEN students expect us to “Inspire me! Teach me! Support me!”
GCSEN faculty helps our students “Make Meaning! Make Money! Move the World to a Better Place!”
