Social Entrepreneurship Cup results

The winner of the SE Cup track was TestConnect, and the runner up was Authenticiti - congratulations to all participants who presented! TestConnect, a platform for instructors to provide personalized exam feedback, went on to earn honorable mention at the University-wide Entrepreneuership Cup.

Call for Proposals: Social Entrepreneurship Cup

Have an idea for a business or organization that will work toward solving our social and environmental problems? Develop it into a three-page concept for a chance at $3,000 in prices at the track level and a $20,000 top prize in the university-wide UVA Entrepreneurship Cup. Concept submission deadline October 27th. More information about the UVA Entrepreneurship Cup found here. The University-wide Entrepreneurship Cup final will be held Fri., Nov. 16, at 1 pm in Bavaro Hall's Halloway Hall. (October 2012)

Christine Mahoney discusses social entrepreneurship and the "common good" on WTJU

Christine Mahoney discusses globalization and the common good - and what UVA and the Batten School are doing about it, including the budding social entrepreneurship working group and curriculum. (August 2012)

Push for Social Entrepreneurship at UVA

The concept of social entrepreneurship is still being defined in the world of academia.  In the social entrepreneurship initiative document, social entrepreneurship is defined as "an approach to creating system-level change through the application of entrepreneurial thinking to social ventures, non-profit organizations, government institutions, and NGOs to create economic, environmental, and social value for multiple stakeholders, not just shareholders." Full story at NBC29 (May 2012)

Entrepreneurial Dreams Can Beat Local Poverty, U.Va. Class Proposes

Fostering entrepreneurial dreamers might be the most promising answer to the challenge of creating job opportunities for the city's low-income families, according to a University of Virginia course that spent the semester engaging with local poverty issues and visiting innovative social enterprises across the mid-Atlantic – like a gourmet bakery that employs ex-convicts and a soup kitchen that runs a profitable catering business, creating jobs for the formerly homeless. The course, "Field Work in Social Enterprise: Reducing Poverty in Charlottesville," aimed to get students "out of the U.Va. bubble," immerse them in local issues of poverty, study successful social enterprises in other cities and apply the lessons learned by proposing specific ideas to catalyze social enterprise in Charlottesville, explained course instructor Lauren Purnell, a doctoral candidate in business ethics at the Darden School of Business. Full story at UVAToday (May 2012)

U.Va. E-Cup Adds Social Entrepreneurship Fast Lane to Student Business Plan Contest for $40,000

At the third annual University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup on Nov. 18, students will be making their best business pitches as they vie for the $20,000 first prize. New this year, the preliminary competitions included a track dedicated to social entrepreneurship – businesses focused on furthering social or environmental goals – hosted by U.Va.'s Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development, or SEED. Full story at UVAToday (November 2011)