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Welcome to the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Challenge – the Social E-Challenge, organized by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES).
Misxer/Info Session: Nov 19, 2009, 6:30-8:30pm, Stanford Koret Pavillion Kehillah Hall
Kick-Off Event: Jan 13, 2010
1st Round Submission: Feb 17, 2010, Results: March 3, 2010
2nd Round Submission: Apr 13, 2010, Pitch/Results: Apr 24, 2010
3rd Round Submission: TBA, Pitch/Results: TBA
The Social E-Challenge is a business plan competition for entrepreneurial ventures whose primary goal is to effect social and/or environmental change. Participants range from for-profit businesses with a strong sense of social responsibility to nonprofits with sustainable revenue-generation models. The common denominator is that these companies seek to have a positive impact on our society and/or the environment.
Social E-Challenge provides participants with $50,000 in final round prizes, as well as the resources and training to launch their startups, which include workshops, mixers, speakers, a mentorship program, and individual feedback from renowned judges. Our judges are fellow social entrepreneurs, venture philanthropists, academics, foundation chairs, leaders of successful NGOs, legal experts, and policy-makers. More than 70 judges participate between our three stage selection process, representing a wide variety of domain expertise and perspectives.
Read more about the application, selection process, and judging criteria here.
Six innovative new social enterprises presented their plans for how they want to change the world on Friday, May 29, 2009 at Stanford University in front of an audience of more than 50. As finalists in the Social E-Challenge, they competed for $50,000 in awards to help kickstart their ventures.
The distinguished panel of final round judges included Debra Dunn (Board of Directors Member, Skoll Foundation and Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford d.school), Matt Flannery (Co-Founder and CEO, Kiva), Dr. Don Francis (Executive Director, Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases), R. Paul Herman (CEO and Founder, HIP Investor), and George Scharffenberger (Advisor for International Development Policy and Practice, UC Berkeley).
In an unprecedented decision in Social E-Challenge history, the final round judges selected two teams from the extremely competitive pool as this year’s winners. Re:Motion Designs and Respira Design will receive $20,000 each to jumpstart their ventures.
SEE College Prep, a student initiated grassroots approach for college test preparation, and Sustainable Health Enterprises, a nonprofit developing a market-based solution to manufacture and distribute affordable, high-quality, and environmentally-friendly sanitary pads tied for second place and will receive $4,000 each. Driptech, a low cost drip irrigation system that multiples farmers’ yields and conserves water, and OneBreath, an easily deployable ventilator for better pandemic preparedness, will receive $1,000 each for their participation in the final round.
Driptech
OneBreath
ReMotion (formerly PalMed)
Respira Design
SEE College Prep
Sustainable Health Enterprises
ChairLift
Community-Funded Student Loan Initiative
Driptech
EYEmage
Farmers’ Exchange
FrontlineSMS Medic
GRROUP
Muft-Gyan-Hamesha
OEC
OneBreath
PalMed
Respira Design
Rural Returns
SEE College Prep
SEED (Small Engines for Economic Development)
Sustainable Health Enterprises
Team Warburton
Verde AquaSolutions
Viv
If you would like to receive more information about the competition, or if you would like to become involved as a judge, mentor, or competitor, please contact us via email at sociale@bases.stanford.edu