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SEVEN Fund
SEVEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual nonprofit entity whose strategy is to increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. The Fund’s Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals (RFP) will award up to two research grants of no more than $100,000 each.
This SEVEN Fund RFP has four goals: to expand scientific inquiry to include disciplines fundamental to a deep understanding of entrepreneurship and economic development that are currently unsupported by conventional grant sources; to forge and maintain useful collaborations between researchers and on-the-ground actors of enterprise-based solutions to poverty; to provide the public with a deeper understanding in this area, and its potential implications; and to find, research, and analyze role-model entrepreneurs and companies whose lesson may inspire others.
Anyone in any part of the world may submit an initial proposal. Expected applicants include think tanks, economists, professors, researchers, entrepreneurs, business experts, strategy experts, graduate and post-graduate student researchers, economic development experts, business strategists, and non-governmental organizations. The submission deadline for the initial letters of interest is October 15, 2010.