From: Ross Baird <[email protected]> I’m writing to find great entrepreneurs for the second round of the Civic Accelerator, a partnership that the organization I run, Village Capital, is launching with Points of Light. The Civic Accelerator seeks “civic ventures”—ventures that put people at the center of world-changing solutions, including but not limited to the following:
- Government transparency - Collaborative consumption - Civic engagement/campaign platforms - Crowdsourcing/crowdfunding - Volunteerism Participating ventures in the Civic Accelerator will receive $10,000 upfront investment; at the end of the program, two ventures picked by their peers will receive $50,000. The program will kick off May in Atlanta, and wrap up in late July/early August in San Francisco, though we are looking for ventures nationwide. If you can think of any ventures, please write me with their names if you have a second. Also, *feel free to forward this email to any entrepreneurs or mailing lists you think might be interested. The application deadline is March 18th, so please forward quickly!* Also, we are currently recruiting ventures from across India for Village Capital-CIIE: “Technology for Impact.” We are looking for invention-based enterprises that currently operate, or plan to operate, in India; we’re especially interested in education, health, energy, and agriculture technologies, as well as mobile-based innovations serving the poor. If you know of anyone, or want to apply, please visit www.vilcap-ciie.org. Thank you so much for all your help and partnership, and looking forward to what’s next! All the best, Ross Baird
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