PROJECTS

Projects

Townview Magnet School of Business is part of the premier high school campus in Texas, called by Newsweek as the sixth best public high school in America. SBIG has agreed to provide the school with a curriculum in social entrepreneurship using online learning and strategic partnerships providing internships with community organizations, social enterprise businesses and non profits in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This program will be one of the first of its kind in the nation, and will introduce an innovative learning program with the potential to replicate as a national model to train leadership at the high school level.  Click here for more information.  




The Global Social Venture Competition is an international business plan competition for MBA students producing double bottom line business ventures with social and financial sustainability. The competition is sponsored jointly by the University of California’s Haas School of Business, The University of Columbia, the London Business School and the Goldman Sachs Foundation each year. SBIG will field a team to enter the 2008 competition held at Columbia University with a core business model designed to drive our organizational budget and give us greater flexibility in expanding our reach.  Click here for more information  if you’re an MBA student interested in applying as a project team member of an MBA interested in supervising or advising team members.




The Women's Bean Project is a national model for successful social enterprise organizations located in Denver. The WBP sells food products worldwide via the internet and in retail outlets in 23 states to fund the rehabilitation and training of women transitioning from lives of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, domestic violence and substance abuse. SBIG is proud to assist the “women of the bean” in opening the Dallas-Fort Worth retail markets to WBP products. Click here for more information.