Scholarship to Santa Clara Social Business Incubator

Be one of the 10 social entrepreneurs who will attend the GSBI Summer 2006 session on a fully paid scholarship!

The Program

The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) provides an intensive two-week residential program that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.

Presented by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Leavey School of Business Administration, the GSBI offers the unique context of a Jesuit university dedicated to social justice combined with leading resources of Silicon Valley.

The GSBI combines classroom instruction, case studies, and best practices with carefully matched mentoring on the specific scaling and sustainability challenges of each participating organization.

During the two-week in residence program (July 29 - August 12, 2006), participants will develop know-how in critical areas of business planning, including technology and service innovation, target marketing, business models, finance and organizational capacity building.

The Process

For the first time, the admission process to the Global Social Benefit Incubator is being extended to the broader social entrepreneurship community in partnership with Social Edge. Past attendees have been selected from the ranks of finalists in prestigious international award and recognition programs and fellowships.

The invited social benefit entrepreneurs will need to demonstrate their commitment to applying technology to address urgent human needs throughout the world. In the past, participants have come from Costa Rica, India, Namibia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Argentina, Costa Rica, India, Jordan, Laos, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
Read their profiles here.

This selection process will narrow the entrants to a short list of candidates who will then complete a GSBI application and be phone interviewed by the GSBI team.

The Award

The finalists at the end of the process will be granted a full scholarship to attend the Global Social Benefit Incubator in August 2006. The awards are valued at $20,000 USD each. Visa and round trip airfare expenses will be the responsibility of the attending Social Entrepreneur.

To Apply

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