Activities - March 2007

Global Social Venture Competition - Regional Finals General Motors Room, Horchow Hall 55 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT. Friday, March 30, 2007. 2 p.m. Team presentations. 4:30 p.m. Reception. 5 p.m. Judges' Announcements. Admission is free and open to the public. Click here for more information. Host: Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management. Teams: EcoInsure (Yale): Legal defense insurance for land trusts, Feed Resource Recovery (Babson): Waste management and renewable energy for supermarkets, Innovators in HOPE (Duke): Neonatal care for the developing world, PictureRx (Emory): Picture prescription cards for healthcare literacy, Planting Empowerment (Northwestern, Thunderbird): Reforestation and social empowerment in Panama. Judges: Norah McVeigh, SOM ’90, Managing Director, Financial Services, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Michael Havard, Vice President, Marketing, Newman’s Own, Arjan Schütte, Associate Director, The Center for Financial Services Innovation, An Affiliate of ShoreBank Corporation. Contact gsvc-info@yale.edu if you have any questions and to RSVP. Sponsored, in part, by the Program on Social Enterprise at the Yale School of Management through a generous gift from Joanne Landau, SOM '84. Additional support provided by SOM Net Impact.

Business Plan Competition for Connecticut Universities: The deadlines for submission are: SPRING SEMESTER: March 30, 2007. Founded by the Connecticut Venture Group in 1998, the Connecticut Business Plan competition is underwritten by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). There is no entry fee. For details, visit https://www.back-offices.com/OpportunityHome.asp or contact Mike Roer, Contest Administrator, Connecticut Venture Group, (203) 256-5955/Roer@cvg.org.

Enter the Y50K : Business Plan Deadline: March 16th. YES is pleased to announce the seventh annual Y50K Business Plan Competition, which offers $50,000 in grants for new businesses. Visit www.yes.yale.edu or email marty.rod@yale.edu for more information.

Y50K Past Winners Panel and Teambuilder : Monday, March 5th @ 8:00 PM; WLH 114. Guest speakers include winning teams from past Y50K competitions. Past participating winners include BioRelix (2005), Helix Theraputics (2006), The Globalist Foundation (2005), Mercado Global (2004), Memstart (2001), Elmseed (2001), and Keren Pharmaceuticals (2006). Do not worry about the delayed date; teams are able to add new members until the final round presentations at the Innovation Summit on April 13th-14th.

YES Speaker Series: Peter Tropper : Thursday, March 1st at 7:30 PM; Location WLH 113. Peter Tropper is the senior investment officer with IFC, a branch of the World Bank. Hear from a unique perspective in finance and global affairs. Mr. Tropper is a former Yalie and supervises work on the portfolio in Europe and parts of Asia, focusing on problems facing funds nearing the end of their lives.