{"588116":{"#nid":"588116","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Making a Global Social Impact","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, March 3, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/index.html\u0022\u003EInstitute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship\u003C\/a\u003E (ILE) in the Scheller College of Business will host the U.S. Eastern Regional Finals of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gsvc.org\/about\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Social Venture Competition\u003C\/a\u003E (GSVC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeams from Georgia Tech and other prestigious universities from the eastern region of the U.S. will compete for two spots in the competition\u0026rsquo;s global finals, to be hosted at the University of California, Berkeley later this year, with 16 other teams from eight other regions around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFour of the 20 teams that were selected for the Eastern U.S. Regional Finals are based in Atlanta, and three include students from Georgia Tech. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/charityvest.org\/\u0022\u003ECharityvest\u003C\/a\u003E (a more efficient and transparent system for charitable giving), Hema Therapy Predix System (an affordable anemia diagnostic and monitoring service), and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.truepani.com\/\u0022\u003ETruePani\u003C\/a\u003E (an in-home water purification system for rural India) have members affiliated with Georgia Tech, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.honorcodeatl.org\/\u0022\u003EhonorCode\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s (web-development curriculum for K-12 schools) co-founder is a Georgia State University graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther participating universities include Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition\u0026rsquo;s mission is to transform ideas into businesses with real-world social impact. It was started by students at UC-Berkeley more than 15 years ago and provides young social entrepreneurs with mentoring, access to a network of experts and impact investors, and $80,000 in startup funds. Georgia Tech is Berkeley\u0026rsquo;s main partner in the Americas and hopes to bring the Global Finals to Atlanta next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;GSVC was a natural fit for us,\u0026rdquo; said Dori Pap, faculty advisor for GSVC at Tech and assistant director for ILE. \u0026ldquo;We have a great pipeline of teams through our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/index.html\u0022\u003EIdeas to Serve Competition\u003C\/a\u003E, and Georgia Tech has the reputation of being at the leading edge of technology and innovation that improves the human condition, so it\u0026rsquo;s easy for us to recruit teams from top schools in our region.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn past years, GSVC participants have addressed social and environmental issues including sanitation (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/saner.gy\/\u0022\u003ESanergy\u003C\/a\u003E, MIT), access to water (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thetohl.com\/\u0022\u003ETOHL\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech), solar power (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dlight.com\/\u0022\u003Ed.light\u003C\/a\u003E, Stanford), the fight against malaria (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.faso-soap.info\/?lang=en\u0022\u003EFASO Soap\u003C\/a\u003E, Burkina Faso), and affordable nutrition (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/revolutionfoods.com\/\u0022\u003ERevolution Foods\u003C\/a\u003E, UC Berkeley).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GSVC organizing team at Georgia Tech is led by MBA students at the Scheller College of Business and is supported by ILE and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022\u003ERay C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/a\u003E, with funding from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.grayghostventures.com\/\u0022\u003EGray Ghost Ventures\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETeams from Georgia Tech and other prestigious universities from the eastern half of the U.S. will compete for two spots in the competition\u0026rsquo;s global finals, to be hosted at the University of California, Berkeley later this year\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Teams from Georgia Tech and other prestigious universities from the eastern half of the U.S. will compete for two spots in the competition\u2019s global finals, to be hosted at the University of California, Berkeley later this year"}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-03-01 20:57:07","changed_gmt":"2017-03-02 13:43:10","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588119":{"id":"588119","type":"image","title":"True Pani","body":null,"created":"1488317775","gmt_created":"2017-02-28 21:36:15","changed":"1488317775","gmt_changed":"2017-02-28 21:36:15","alt":"True Pani at InVenture 2016","file":{"fid":"224131","name":"16C10400-P22-022.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16C10400-P22-022.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16C10400-P22-022.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":434340,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/16C10400-P22-022.jpg?itok=V5k-5hXB"}},"588120":{"id":"588120","type":"image","title":"True Pani","body":null,"created":"1488317798","gmt_created":"2017-02-28 21:36:38","changed":"1488317816","gmt_changed":"2017-02-28 21:36:56","alt":"True Pani at InVenture 2016","file":{"fid":"224132","name":"16C10400-P22-021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16C10400-P22-021.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16C10400-P22-021.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":403920,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/16C10400-P22-021.jpg?itok=5QoguC01"}},"588191":{"id":"588191","type":"image","title":"TruePani","body":null,"created":"1488462150","gmt_created":"2017-03-02 13:42:30","changed":"1488462150","gmt_changed":"2017-03-02 13:42:30","alt":"TruePani","file":{"fid":"224157","name":"TruePani.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TruePani.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TruePani.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":236340,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TruePani.jpeg?itok=2enJSkXT"}}},"media_ids":["588119","588120","588191"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ile.gatech.edu","title":"Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"89861","name":"Global Social Venture Competition"},{"id":"4050","name":"ILE"},{"id":"12563","name":"Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship"},{"id":"167089","name":"Scheller College of Business"},{"id":"172843","name":"GSVC"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nicole.little@ile.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ENicole Little\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}