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This year CASE celebrated our 20th anniversary, and the 10th anniversary of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. This anniversary allowed us to reflect on how our work has evolved over the years to meet the needs to today’s economy, and how we can continue to be even bolder in our efforts and scale […]

What year it was! Our 2020-21 academic year brought more challenges than any of us could have anticipated.  A year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic with its horrific toll on health, livelihoods, education and so much more. Compounded by the continued systemic racial inequities experienced here in the US and abroad. Certainly, the challenges of […]

“I found the team skilled at jumping in and learning a new industry and providing actionable recommendations and insights. – Michael Welchel, Big Path Capital Is your impact enterprise in need of additional capacity to move forward an important project that you haven’t had the time or energy to focus on?  Do you have an […]

After receiving 330 applications from enterprises serving 184 countries across 5 continents, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is pleased announce 14 finalists for the inaugural Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact (F. M. Kirby Impact Prize). Named after early entrepreneur Fred Morgan Kirby […]

Kenyan entrepreneur Linus Wahome began working on ManPro, a digital construction management platform, in 2018. He bootstrapped the company for a year and successfully built a product, but still needed to address gaps in the product-market fit. He was almost out of resources to continue development when he met ViKtoria Business Angel Network (VBAN) investors […]

We had another exciting year of impact at CASE! Read our 2019-2020 annual report to learn more about our accomplishments in our next gen, scaling and impact investing portfolios, as well as what we are looking forward to working on in the 2020-2021 academic year. Thank you to all of the donors, partners, advisory council […]

On August 10, 2020, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business will start accepting applications for a new annual prize of $100,000 in unrestricted funds. Named the Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact (F. M. Kirby Impact Prize), the prize will recognize one impact […]

As the United States passed the grim milestone of 100,000 lives lost COVID-19 at the end of May, it has become clear that the summer of 2020 will be unlike any other. As many of us continue to shelter in place and focus on activities closer to home than we may have in summers past, […]

Dear CASE Community, Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Whiteness weaponized against Christian Cooper. Disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on people of color. A global health pandemic layered on top of the pandemic of racism that has scourged our country for far too long. And to think that past weekend – May 31 – was the […]