SOCIAL VENTURES INSTITUTE

mAKING BUSINESS TRANFORMATIONAL

Change starts with a vision, but change requires action to become reality.

Social Venture Institute students are agents of change.

There is a “fork” in the road ahead for the next generation of university
entrepreneurial and business minded youth

Many of you will pursue the road that leads to material wealth and monetary reward.

And many will choose the road to help others and make this world a better place.

As business students there is a way to combine business with social impact and that is called social enterprise.

The Social Venture Institute is an accredited experiential learning program for a select group of business school students who will be put in

the “driver's seat” to help solve and manage one of

the greatest challenges that the world is facing today, extreme poverty.

For example, there are over 2 billion people or 25% of the global population that makes under $4 a day. Extreme poverty poses the greatest threats to democracies and the free enterprise system.

Extraordinary problems
call for extraordinary people
to drive extraordinary solutions

The Social Ventures Institute is looking for extraordinary students to drive

the discovery, testing and scaling of social enterprise solutions

to local, national and global poverty reduction challenges.

The Institute consists of three experiential learning labs,

each of which will enroll a select few outstanding

business school student applicants who are passionate about

making their world a better place through social enterprise.

The EPIC Innovation Lab

Interested in becoming a social entrepreneur and starting a social venture that provides

an innovative solution to a poverty reduction challenge?

EPIC, the End Poverty Innovation Challenge, will enroll up to 5 outstanding students interested in social entrepreneurship through the development of “Franchisable Social Venture Solutions” to a local, national and global poverty reduction challenges in health, agriculture, clean water, sanitation, education, housing, green energy and more.

Lab work includes individual student selection of a specific poverty reduction challenge, followed by the ideation and development of an innovative social venture solution that meets the challenge. Students will learn about social entrepreneurship by completing the development of a business plan with financials for their social venture including designing a simple prototype. Outstanding EPIC business plans will receive investment consideration by social impact investment funds for the underwriting of a commercial proof of concept. Students will receive accreditation from their University and a certification of lab completion from the Social Venture Institute.

The Social Franchise Lab

Interested in managing and globally scaling a franchisable social venture that

provides a sustainable solution to a poverty reduction challenge?

The Social Franchise Lab will enroll up to 5 outstanding students interested in managing the national, regional or global scaling of a socially franchisable solutions to poverty reduction challenges.

Lab work includes the research, identification and vetting of prospective “franchisable” social ventures developed and operated for at least two years by non-profit entities and/or social entrepreneurs in their geographical region or home nation. Each Student will learn about social franchising by developing a franchise plan for a selected social venture that could enable the venture to rapidly scale to impact hundreds of thousands of individuals living in poverty. This work includes the affirmation of the venture's "commercial proof of concept" as well as the development of a social franchise scaling plan, and a social franchise operational manual. Outstanding social franchise plans will receive investment consideration by social impact investment funds. Students will receive accreditation from their University and a certification of lab completion from the Social Venture Institute.

The Social Impact Fund Lab

Interested in managing a private equity Fund that invests in social impact?

The Social Impact Fund Lab will enroll up to 5 outstanding students interested in the world of equity investment for social good.

Lab work includes the research, identification and vetting of an actual small, medium or large social franchise that is operational in their geographical region or home nation. Each Student will learn about social impact investment by developing an "equity investment analysis" case study for a selected social franchise. This includes the preparation of necessary investor grade vetting components including an analysis of the market landscape, valuation and financials that could be utilized for investment consideration by a professional investment manager. Outstanding social franchise analysis studies will be shared with Impact investment funds to help them make decisions regarding underwriting the expanded scaling of the social franchise within their nation, their geographical region or to the world. Students will receive accreditation from their University and a certification of lab completion from the Social Venture Institute.