Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals
The SEVEN (Social Equity Venture) Fund, a nonprofit organization that works to promote enterprise-based solutions to poverty, has published its second annual open Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals. This competition is supported initially by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and is expected to be held annually.
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The aim of SEVEN Fund sponsored research is to answer the question of whether wealth-creation may be the most effective solution to alleviate poverty. The fund invests its resources in finding, researching, and documenting examples where entrepreneurial success is shown to have led to poverty alleviation. In the process, the fund seeks to inspire entrepreneurs in developing countries with advice, investments, role models, and other services.
The fund's Request for Proposals is limited to research in economics, government policy, and business strategy, insofar as the research bears directly on questions in enterprise-based solutions to poverty.
Anyone may submit an initial proposal for funding — there are no geographic or other limitations on program eligibility. Applicants may include think tanks, economists, professors from business schools as well as other departments, researchers, entrepreneurs, business experts, strategy experts, graduate and post-graduate student researchers, economic development experts, business strategists, and nongovernmental organizations.
The fund will award up to two research grants of up to $100,000 each for up to twelve months through the RFP competition.
For the complete RFP and examples of projects that have previously been funded by the SEVEN Fund, see the fund's Web site.http://sevenfund.org/enterprise-solutions-poverty/index.php