National Social Venture Competition Sponsored by the Haas School of Business, Columbia Business School and The Goldman Sachs Foundation

Over $100,000 available in seed capital for social venture plans!

Plus:

· Network with venture capitalists

· Meet with successful entrepreneurs

The National Social Venture Competition is the only national competition targeting social ventures – for-profit and non-profit ventures with financial and social returns on investment. Its mission is to promote the creation of financially self-sufficient or profitable ventures that have a quantifiable social and/or environmental bottom line.

Important Dates:

Executive Summary due November 15, 2002

Business Plan due February 3, 2003

For more information go to www.socialvc.net

Each team entry must include at least one current MBA student from any school.