GSBI details

Rob Katz — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:41:04 -0500

Dear Jogesh,

The application details are all online at the Social Edge web site. Be sure to get your application submitted before next week's deadline! (January 22).

Best of luck,

Rob

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Mr. Jogesh Das — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:46:27 -0500

Please apprise me the required participants fee and other details at your earliest convenience. Thanking you Jogesh Das

Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship

Al Hammond — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:47:10 -0500

Santa Clara University is known in social entrepreneurial circles for its work helping to organize and judge the Tech Museum Awards – a showcase for social entrepreneurs, mostly from developing countries. Less well-known about the school is the Global Social Benefit Incubator, run by SCU’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society and a host of Silicon Valley volunteers.

The GSBI, under the guidance of Professor Jim Koch, selects 15-20 enterprises from developing countries and provides an 8-month mentoring process. The mentoring culminates with an intensive 10-day process in Santa Clara, where entrepreneurs work with their mentors, other experts, and each other to prepare themselves to succeed upon their return home. Applications for the fully-funded 2008 class of entrepreneurs are available now over at Social Edge.

This year, SCU has invited World Resources Institute to work with them on the GSBI process and accepted my suggestion that we focus a sub-group of the available slots on enterprises in the water sector.

The idea is to promote cross-learning among water entrepreneurs, and also to analyze the sector as a whole more deeply. This includes looking at geographic differences in the treatment challenge, the range of available and prospective technologies, business models, financing strategies, etc. The goal is to stimulate the sector as a whole.

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Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship