Fletcher D-Prize Information Session: Poverty Solutions Venture Competition

The 2017 Fletcher D-Prize:

Poverty Solution Ventures Competition

Featuring

Menghan Li, F’18

Winner of Fletcher D-Prize 2017 for her Venture ComeOnGirls

Monday, September 25th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Mugar 200

Food and Refreshments Will be Served!

@ IBGC_Fletcher #IBGCSpeaks #DPrize

RSVP here: https:/fletcher-d-prize2017.eventbrite.com

For more information, contact Daniel Popko (daniel.popko@tufts.edu)

If you had $30,000, how would you fight poverty?

Four years ago, the Fletcher School and D-Prize launched a unique social entrepreneurship competition, combining Fletcher’s interdisciplinary, holistic problem solving around the world’s most pressing development issues with D-Prize’s ability to find and fund poverty fighting ventures. Imagine, you can distribute a proven social venture idea, receive valuable feedback from venture capitalists, and win up to $20K in cash with additional $10K in-kind support to start your venture. And you can fulfill your capstone requirement all while doing your summer internship or making it a post Fletcher experience that builds your business skills – all while having real world impact.

That’s exactly what’s happening for Menghan Li, F’18. She launched ComeOnGirls this summer with funding from the Fletcher D-Prize. Come and hear her story of working in the Guizhou Province of China to create and pilot a unique scholarship platform for girls, all via WeChat. To date, her venture has funded 100 girls in rural China to attend school and lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. Founding ComeOnGirls was Menghan’s summer internship and will be her capstone as well.

Fletcher D-Prize invites all budding Fletcher/Tufts social entrepreneurs like Menghan – in any stage of formation – with support from faculty, staff, and alumni to focus your energy and talent on distributing proven poverty solutions. This could be your summer internship, your capstone, you post Fletcher experience to build your business skills.

This could be your way to have real world impact.

The Fletcher D-Prize provides internationally-savvy students with the support and funding to launch a social venture while still in graduate school. For more details, visit: http://www.fletcher.tufts.edu/d-prize.

Pitch a Venture Capitalist. Launch a Social Venture. Create Social Impact.