Community Education Community Education is an area where Social Entrepreneur Corps has created two separate social innovations in order to best support and serve our local constituents.
 Typical beneficiaries:
Cooperatives, education centers, health clinics, libraries, artisan associations, urban and rural communities
 Recent Examples: Guatemala:
Beneficiary: Social Entrepreneur Corps
Impact Achieved: Interns interviewed local organizations and collected seven new profiles and wrote 12 how-to articles in Spanish on topics such as how to study for an exam, how to create a resume, and how to use a water irrigation system.
Ecuador:
Beneficiary:
Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas Pacha Mama, Chimborazo (Women Artisans)
Impact Achieved: Interns met with the president of UCA Miraflor, collected and posted information on their mission to support 15 cooperatives located in the Miraflor nature reserve and provided a link to their website that promotes their ecotourism offerings.
Nicaragua:
Beneficiary: Social Entrepreneur Corps
Impact Achieved: Interns interviewed local organizations and collected 31 new profiles and wrote seven how-to articles in Spanish on topics such as HIV/AIDS prevention, how to write a business plan and how to treat cuts.
To learn more about the impact interns had through ParaLaComunidad in 2011, download the 'Social Entrepreneur Corps Impact Report' here
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 Centro Explorativo is a Community Enterprise Solutions (our sister organization) social innovation. The Centro is an educational initiative located in La Pista, Nebaj in the western highlands of Guatemala. It was designed to provide classes to reinforce what local school children learn in public schools as well as to offer productive afterschool programs such as drama classes and chess leagues.
 Typical beneficiaries:
Local youth and students, local teachers Recent Examples:
Guatemala:
Beneficiary: Centro Explorativo students and teachers
Impact Achieved: Interns worked with teachers to analyze and update their current computer classes including ways to evaluate student progress . They also worked with select students to create a hand-drawn map of La Pista to increase students’ understanding of local and regional geography. Click here to learn more about To learn more about the impact interns had through Centro Explorativo in 2011, download the 'Social Entrepreneur Corps Impact Report' here
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