We made a startling revelation recently here at Miami University: Not everyone knows about EDUN LIVE On Campus. Awful, right? We thought so too. So, we decided to force people to take notice: We blanketed the school. Posters everywhere, shirts hanging from clotheslines, t-shirt racks in buildings, announcements in classes, e-mails to students - you get the idea.

Take a look at a few of the pictures from the day below, and see the full set here.

Miami University Chapter’s President, Danny Sauter, was recently featured in an interview with The Social Entrepreneurship Exchange. In the interview, Sauter talks about his experience with the program, the impact being made, and the great potential for further growth.

“The problem is that Africa has nearly 15% of the world’s population, but just 2% of the world’s trade.  And we kind of recognized – and I think there’s mounting support for this – that perhaps trade rather than aid is the key to ending the cycle of poverty and increasing development in the continent.  So our answer is to increase trade to Africa by sourcing 100% African-made t-shirts, and provide sustainable employment in the process.”

You can read the full interview here.

We’re excited to share a great event that we’ve been planning at our founding school, Miami University. Here are the details:

Doing Good by Doing Well: Social Entrepreneurship
Blake Mycoskie, CEO & Cheif Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes

February 24th, Wednesday 4:30pm
Miami University Farmer School of Business
Taylor Auditorium

Blake’s energy and his fast-growing company matches up well with EDUN LIVE On Campus, a key reason we asked him to drop by to tell of his journey and the mission of TOMS. Here’s some more on the company:

TOMS’ simple promise to give a pair of new shoes to children in need around the world with every pair sold is revolutionizing the way consumers shop. The One for One business model has encouraged conscientious consumers to purchase and give more than 140,000 pairs of new shoes to children in need in just 3 years. Bill Clinton called their CEO, Mycoskie, “One of The Most Interesting Entrepreneurs I’ve Ever Met.”

Special thanks for the support from Green Oxford, AIESEC, and UNICEF, and the Miami University Center for Social Entrepreneurship for making the event a reality.

We’d love to have you join us for this incredible event. If you are in the neighborhood, drop by. Oxford, home of Miami University, is just 45 minutes north of Cincinnati. If you can’t make it, however, we’ll be sure to snap plenty of pictures and video to capture the excitement of the day.

Have a look…

We love every one of our customers. They’ve made the choice to support a brand that backs ethical practices and social change, so they must be pretty sweet. Every once in a while, however, we feel like it’s time to call one out if they are involved in something extra-ordinary or special. It looks like that time has come, as the Miami University chapter works with Startup Weekend Columbus 2 to provide them with shirts.

Startup Weekend 2 is all about innovation, action, and the entrepreneurial spirit. What’s not to love about that? The idea is that, within the span of one weekend,  it’s possible to launch a business. Crazy, right? Yeah, a little bit - but it’s an incredible practice of bringing together a vast group of people, coming together to work towards a common goal, dedicating long hours and hard work, and seeing if maybe, just maybe, you can put it all together and come out with something really cool by the end of the weekend.

The program is held all over the world, in a series of weekends in different cities. Columbus held their second go-round this April 3rd-5th. Thanks to the support and interest from the participants and sponsors of the event, they all came away with a Startup Weekend Columbus 2 EDUN LIVE shirt, in addition to any gold-mine businesses they happened to create that weekend.

The design was put together by Phil Franks at dynamIt Technologies. Thanks to sponsors of the event : Sun Microsystems, TechColumbus, dynamIt Technologies, Bricker & Eckler, EdgeCase, Sterling Commerce, and Sandbox.