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In partnership with BB&T, the Triangle Discovery Forum will be held on September 21st from 5:30-8:30pm at the Duke Bullpen (215 Morris Street). Its mission is to inspire, support, and develop young social entrepreneurs and innovators across North Carolina.
The Institute for Emerging issues if seeking applications from individuals and teams of young social entrepreneurs (ages 18-30) who are working to improve their communities, and our state, through social innovation. The top 10 teams will be selected to pitch at the Triangle Discovery Forum. The three Discovery Forum winners will be invited to our Leadership Symposium in the spring for a chance to win $10,000 towards their venture.
Brief online application due 09/09/16 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUOHOcVDl_jXdYwy3DW4_vuSdxs3mk4Ybm-b1tKFcRgovLzA/viewform?c=0&w=1
If you have any questions, please contact Maggie Woods at mjwoods2@ncsu.edu or Caroline Dawkins at cedawkin@ncsu.edu.
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Apply for $100,000 and 9 months of support to scale your early-stage organization serving poor or vulnerable populations in U.S. cities!
Unreasonable Institute is teaming up with The Rockefeller Foundation to run the first ever Future Cities Accelerator: a program for highly-scalable early stage organizations with serving poor or vulnerable populations in U.S. cities. Selected organizations receive:
· $100,000 in grant funding (whether for-profit or non-profit)
· 6-weeks of online training in rapid prototyping from Tom Chi, former UX Lead at Google X,
· A 5-day intensive bootcamp designed around scaling your organization
· A mentor team of 3-4 relevant experts advisors
· 9 months of fundraising training and coaching from For Impact, who has raised over $2 billion
· An executive leadership coach
· Free admission to SOCAP, the world’s largest gathering of impact investors and social entrepreneurs
Learn more at http://futurecitiesaccelerator.org/ and apply by September 25, 2016.
Reach out to Program Manager Sean at sean@unreasonableinstitute.org with any questions!
The James Dyson Award is an international student design and engineering competition that is run by the James Dyson Foundation, a global charity which exists to inspire the next generation of engineers.
The James Dyson Award challenges students and recent graduates of design, engineering and related disciplines to design something that solves a problem. The best invention internationally is awarded $45,000 in prize money, and their university receives $7,500.
We would love to be able to give a global platform to the talented students at Duke University and hope you will encourage them to enter the James Dyson Award by mentioning the competition in your lectures, sending an email to students or advertising on the university intranet.
More details about the competition and how to enter can be found at www.jamesdysonaward.com. The competition will close on July 19, 2016.
Around the world, millions of farmers work tirelessly to feed their families and communities. But in spite of their efforts, over 42% of the food these farmers produce is never consumed. Instead, it is lost during harvest, or on the journey from farm to market. The consequences are immense – closing this gap has the potential to feed one billion people and improve livelihoods for farmers.
For our fifth OpenIDEO Amplify challenge, we are calling on entrepreneurs, NGOs, designers and social innovators to develop solutions that reduce waste and improve the livelihoods of small scale farmers. We are focusing on a few key areas where new solutions can have a big impact, including: improving access to markets, ensuring farmers have access to relevant information, using technology in new ways and financial services. The Amplify challenge calls for entrepreneurs, designers, innovators, and NGOs to submit their ideas. OpenIDEO asks:
“How might we improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers by reducing food waste and spoilage?”
OpenIDEO seeks contestants who offer new ideas and approaches and who have previous experience in one of the 27 priority countries
From now until May 2nd at 9 am PDT, you can add your idea for a chance to win a grant of between $50,000 and $150,000, and ongoing design support from IDEO.org. Learn more about our challenges here – we hope you share news of this opportunity widely with your networks.
More information at https://impactdesignhub.org/2016/04/14/openideos-amplify-challenge-focuses-on-agricultural-innovation/
Students and young professionals around the world are forging new solutions to global development needs. By applying novel approaches to Science, Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (STIP), these innovative projects challenge existing assumptions and advance our understanding of what works in global development. The Innovation Marketplace, hosted by the U.S. Global Development Lab, will showcase the talent of students and young innovators who are using STIP to tackle global challenges.
The Innovation Marketplace will take place on November 10th –12th on MIT’s campus, as a feature of the US Agency for International Development Higher Education Solutions Network’s (HESN) TechCon 2016. Throughout the course of the competition, individuals or teams of students, young professionals, or postdoctoral researchers will have the opportunity to gain exposure, build support for their innovative product, service, or research, receive technical feedback, and practice their pitching skills. Although all accepted applicants will be able to attend TechCon, one winner from each category will go on to receive the grand prize after the final round.
Visit tiny.cc/InnovationM for links and guidelines.