The Global Social Venture Competition is the first student-led business plan competition that supports and promotes social ventures. We define a social venture as an enterprise that integrates both profits and social impact. GSVC strives to increase the visibility of social entrepreneurship and the quality and quantity of new ventures. GSVC is sponsored by Yale School of Management, Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, London Business School, Indian School of Business, the International University in Geneva, and SVC-Korea.
Thanks to funding and professional networking facilitated by GSVC, 25% of the previous years’ semi-finalists now have viable businesses up and running! Since its inception in 1999, GSVC has awarded more than a quarter of a million dollars to emerging social ventures and has actively supported early stage social entrepreneurs.
Yale School of Management Regional Final
In 2006, Yale SOM joined the GSVC partnership as the host of a regional final round of the GSVC. Yale will judge a subset of U.S. entrants and choose two finalists to compete at the Global Finals in April.