[Foreward from the editor-in-chief].

Welcome to the second edition of The Social Enterprise Review! Once again, our students have written interesting opinion pieces on a variety of social enterprise topics pertaining to global development. We are pleased to feature an article from Dr. Gordon Adomdza of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Northeastern University and hope to attract additional contributors from outside the Northeastern community for our future editions. We continue to encourage our students to explore topics of interest in global social enterprise and social innovation beyond the classroom. While we now offer an undergraduate curriculum of five on-campus and four field-based courses surrounding these topics, we also offer resources to students pursuing related research and cooperative education opportunities at home and abroad. The Social Enterprise Review offers students the opportunity to improve their writing capabilities while educating their peers in this emerging field. I hope you will enjoy reading these short pieces from our students and faculty as we make a small but impactful contribution to literature concerning social enterprise. Please note that the writing contained in this journal is that of individual authors and the content thereof is not explicity endorsed by Northeastern University or the Social Enterprise Institute. The Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) is grounded in the belief that business can be a powerful development tool through its use of enterprise-based solutions to solve some of the world's most pressing social problems. SEI is a resource center housed within Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business that empowers students to be global business leaders motivated first and foremost by social impact. SEI offers global field study programs to provide students with opportunities to deepen their understanding of social enterpreneurship through experiential learning. Student participants in these field studies collaborate with their peers from partner universities in the Dominican Republic and South Africa to consult with microentrepreneurs and social enterprises, visit high-impact organizations driving innovative solutions to global poverty, and examine the role of business in affecting social change in the unique economic, cultural, and political contexts of each of the countries they visit. The Social Enterprise Fund, founded by Professor Dennis Shaughnessy, supplies investment capital for entrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic and South Africa. Half a million South African rand (approximately USD $45,000) in seed funding has been disbursed to microentrepreneurs throughout the Western Cape. An additional $140,000 has contributed to the creation of nearly 300 microenterprises in the Dominican Republic. …