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Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University accelerates global, innovation-based entrepreneurship in service to humanity.

06/05/2026

Across rural India, goat farming can be a powerful pathway to income generation, particularly for women-led households. Yet success often depends on access to training, infrastructure, veterinary support, and reliable market connections.

A new investment from Miller Center Capital is helping social enterprise expand a model that provides all of the above, enabling smallholder families to build more stable and sustainable livelihoods. The investment reflects Miller Center Capital’s approach to pairing catalytic financing with the mentorship and support entrepreneurs need to scale their impact.

Read how Manikstu is transforming rural livelihoods and why this investment comes at a pivotal moment in the company’s growth: https://millercenterglobal.org/miller-center-capital-backs-manikstu-agro-to-expand-goat-farming-livelihoods-in-rural-india/
Biren Sahoo, Swati Sinha

06/03/2026

This spring, SCU INFORMS partnered with Miller Center for Global Impact to launch its first undergraduate Datathon, challenging students to analyze accelerator program data and uncover insights about effective mentorship and entrepreneur success.

Working with real-world data from Miller Center programs, student teams explored what drives strong mentorship outcomes, where entrepreneurs gain the most confidence, and how impact measurement can be strengthened. Along the way, they gained hands-on experience applying analytics to a real organizational challenge with meaningful implications for social entrepreneurs around the world.

🎉 Congratulations to Team Moonpies, Ophelia Li, Madison Mun, and Conner Chen, whose first-place project stood out for its combination of rigorous analysis and compelling storytelling, demonstrating how data can help organizations better understand and strengthen their impact.

Learn more in this article by event organizers Cole Ang and Ella Stewart: https://millercenterglobal.org/from-spreadsheets-to-social-impact-inside-scu-informs-first-datathon/

05/29/2026

Some of the most meaningful parts of gatherings like our Goa Summit happen in between the sessions.

In the conversations over coffee. The moments of honesty between founders. The exchange of ideas, challenges, encouragement, and lived experience from people building solutions in very different corners of the world, yet navigating so many of the same questions.

This video captures a few reflections from entrepreneurs in the Miller Center network who came together in Goa to connect, learn from one another, and explore what it means to lead impact-driven organizations during a time of rapid change.

What stood out throughout the gathering was the power of community. Not just as a professional network, but as a space for shared understanding, support, and possibility.

We’re grateful to everyone who helped make the summit such a thoughtful and energizing experience, and especially to the entrepreneurs who showed up with openness, generosity, and a willingness to share their journeys.

05/27/2026

The deadline is fast approaching for the Impact Behind the Lens Photo Competition, a global call for images that capture the real-world impact of social entrepreneurship.

We are inviting photographers, storytellers, and creatives to submit powerful images that reflect resilience, innovation, climate action, women’s economic power, entrepreneurship, and community-led change. From everyday moments to transformational stories, the competition aims to spotlight the people and communities driving impact around the world.

Selected photographs will be featured across Miller Center platforms, and winners will receive cash-equivalent prizes from B&H Photo.

The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers ages 18+ with no entry fee required.

If you’ve been meaning to submit, now is the time!
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16637

05/25/2026

🎙️ New Founder of Impact Podcast Episode: Celeste Vogel of Mobility

Recorded live at eWAKA headquarters in Nairobi, this conversation explores the journey of building an electric mobility company connecting drivers across East Africa to opportunity through electric cargo bikes and motorcycles.

Celeste reflects on eWAKA’s unexpected beginnings, the realities of building a company from the ground up, and the leadership lessons that come with rapid growth, uncertainty, and purpose-driven work.

Listen to the episode here: https://line-of-sight-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/building-east-africas-electric-delivery-network-with-celeste-vogel

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_b9Qrv27eY

05/23/2026

Leadership often begins long before someone holds a formal title. Through their work alongside social entrepreneurs at Miller Center for Global Impact, students are learning what leadership looks like in practice: how to communicate thoughtfully, build trust, create strong team cultures, and make space for different perspectives.

In a new blog by Margaret Stephens, Senior Manager of Development, students including Paloma Helms, Mandy Xue, Grace Flanagan, Nathan Loza, and Ainhoa Ugarte reflect on the leadership lessons they drew from Jim Morgan’s The Definitive Morganisms and how those insights are shaping the way they approach teamwork, accountability, and collaboration.

Their reflections offer an honest and inspiring look at how leadership habits are formed through everyday actions and experiences.

Check it out: https://millercenterglobal.org/how-jim-morgans-leadership-wisdom-is-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-student-leaders-at-santa-clara/

05/20/2026

What happens to social enterprises when foreign aid contracts, markets shift, inflation rises, and global instability becomes part of everyday business reality?

At Miller Center for Global Impact’s 2026 Advisory Board Retreat, social entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia, and Latin America came together to reflect on exactly that question. In a new blog by Zaki Raheem, Senior Director of Programs, founders working across clean energy, fintech, menstrual health, ethical artisan supply chains, and rural water systems share how they are navigating one of the most complex operating environments in recent years.

The conversation explores shrinking aid ecosystems, operational discipline, real-time adaptation, and why community may be one of the sector’s most important forms of resilience.

Rather than a story of pessimism, the discussion offers a candid look at how social entrepreneurs are responding to uncertainty with reinvention, creativity, and persistence.

Explore the conversation: https://millercenterglobal.org/the-global-state-of-social-enterprise-reflections-from-miller-centers-2026-advisory-board-retreat/

05/18/2026

Most images show what is happening.
The most powerful ones reveal why it matters.

The Impact Behind the Lens Photo Competition from Miller Center for Global Impact is less about perfect composition and more about perspective.

We’re looking for photographs that capture something harder to see:

🔷 the trust behind a partnership
🔷 the quiet moment before change takes hold
🔷 the people who are often outside the frame

Because impact doesn’t always look dramatic. But it is always human.

Submissions are open through June 1, with no entry fee and a $500 prize plus exhibition for selected winners.

If you’ve captured a moment that tells a deeper story, this is the place for it.

🔗 Learn more and submit: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16637

05/13/2026

Celebrating a few recent highlights from the Miller Center for Global Impact network:

🌍 founder of , was featured alongside Hillary Clinton and Diane von Furstenberg at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards. The recognition highlights leaders advancing women’s empowerment and global impact.
🔗 Read more: https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/vital-voices-global-leadership-awards-2026

🚲 has been named to the list by We Make Change, recognizing organizations creating meaningful social and environmental impact around the world.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.wemakechange.org/change100

🤖 Hannah Töpler of Intrare is featured in WIRED en Español, contributing to an important conversation on how AI is shaping hiring practices and how bias can be addressed in these systems.
🔗 Read more: https://es.wired.com/articulos/la-ia-ha-hecho-que-la-contratacion-de-personal-sea-mas-injusta-pero-no-tiene-que-ser-asi

Grateful to be part of a community of leaders building thoughtful, impactful solutions across sectors and regions.

05/11/2026

Miller Center for Global Impact is hiring a Director, Development to lead institutional fundraising and build strategic partnerships that support our work with social entrepreneurs around the world.

This role will manage a portfolio of corporate and foundation partners, develop compelling proposals, and drive funding efforts that advance programs focused on climate resilience and women’s economic power. The Director will work closely with Miller Center leadership and external partners to turn ideas into funded initiatives and long-term collaborations.

Based in Santa Clara, this position offers the opportunity to play a key role in connecting resources, partnerships, and global impact.

If this sounds like you or someone in your network, we encourage you to take a look and apply.

🔗 View the full role and apply: https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/scu/scu/job/Director--Development_R7422

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